Papers of Dr John Borthwick Barbour, fl.1830-1877, founder of the Barbour Scholarship, University of Glasgow, Scotland

• Procuratory of resignation, 1764
• Various correspondence to and from Dr John Barbour, 1873-1908
• Receipts for various shares and investments, 1873-1908
• Accounts and estimates sent to Dr Barbour, 1873-1908
• Fire Insurance Policy for the property 4 Maison Dieu Road, Dover, 1877
• Inventories and valuations of the late Dr Barbour's possessions, 1877
• Copy decree of distribution at the probabte court of the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, relating to the estate of the late Dr Barbour, 1879
• Copy deeds, 1875-1884
• Death certificate of John Paterson Smith, a trustee of the late Dr Barbour, thereafter registered by the North British Railway Company, 1884
• Deeds of assumption from various people, 1889-1890
• Certificate of burial of Christopher Kilvinton Worsford, a trustee, 1897
• Minutes of various meetings, 1906
• Papers relating to the Victoria Stream Tin Company, 1875-1877
• Papers relating to the Bank of Scotland, 1883-1907

John Borthwick Barbour was a doctor of medicine, gaining his MD in 1865. Upon his death on the 12th February 1877, he bequeathed the residue of his personal estate (subject to the life-rent of his widow) to the University of Glasgow for the foundation of a scholarship for the promotion of original research in Anatomy or Physiology. Barbour stated that the free annual income, of around £200, should be paid to a member of the University who was undertaking a Master of Arts course, or a Bachelor of Science course. The regulations for the scholarship were approved by the Senate in 1908. The usual tenure of the Barbour Scholarship was two years, but a scholar could be reappointed for a further period provided they did not hold it for more than four years. The scholarship appears to have run until c1980.

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