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THE EI GHT Y-EI GHTH ANNUAL

KATE KENNEDY PROCESSI ON


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C O L L E G E E C H O E S 3 Pereat tristitia, pereant osores. Pereat diabolus, quivis antiburschius atque irrisores?
Tradition is dened as the transmission of customs or beliefs
from generation to generation. It inuences the way we
speak, dress and behave throughout our lives. Tradition can
be conned to a small group of people, like a family, or be
upheld by an entire nation, like Burns Night in Scotland.
One of The Kate Kennedy Clubs mandates is to uphold the
traditions of the University and town of St Andrews. One of
these traditions is the annual pageant through the town. This
tradition was begun in the fteenth century by the niece of
James Kennedy, Bishop of St Andrews; by Kate Kennedy
herself. She would visit her uncle at St Andrews every year,
and was so beloved by students and residents alike that her
arrival was greeted with a great celebration and a procession
through the town. Even after her death the pageant became
an annual celebration, until it was banned in 1881 because
it was thought to be too raucous and disruptive. The Kate
Kennedy Club was founded in 1926, and revived the
tradition of the annual procession through the town, as well
as working to raise money for local charities and improve
relations between the town and the University.
While tradition can be a good thing in helping us to
remember and uphold the values of the past, it can also be
an obstruction to progress. Traditionally, women were not
allowed to be members of The Kate Kennedy Club. We must
ask how such a tradition beneted the Club, or indeed
anyone else. This changed in 2012 and the Club now accepts
undergraduates of either gender. We can look forward to
the contributions of its new female members; contributions
which were, for many years, not permitted because of the
Clubs all-male tradition.
It is therefore important to examine our traditions and to ask
whether or not they serve any purpose today. In many cases,
traditions have been established for a reason; things are
always done a certain way because that is the best way to do
them. Many ancient civilisations had a great oral tradition,
whereby histories and stories would be learned and passed
down from generation to generation by being performed
and spoken aloud. These stories persisted for hundreds
or thousands of years without being written down, as the
majority of the population could not read or write. However,
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times change, and what was a good idea several hundred
years ago may not still be so. Today, a large proportion of
the worlds population can read and write, so we write our
history and our stories down, and no longer need to commit
them all to memory. Advances in science and technology,
and changes in the way we think, speak and act can render
many traditions redundant.
What, then, is the purpose of tradition? Does it still have
any place in the rapidly-changing 21st century? Do written
letters have any place in a world connected by Facebook
and e-mail? When anyone, regardless of rank or position,
can be contacted instantly by a 140-character tweet, what
need have we of more formal modes of address? The answer
is that traditions are echoes of a past on which our present is
built, and we need to remember this because the traditions
of tomorrow will be built on our today. What traditions will
we leave for our children and grandchildren to follow? Will
we create traditions that echo down the centuries? And will
those echoes reverberate alongside the traditions that we
ourselves follow today? We can only hope that we get it
right, and create and uphold traditions which will help our
heirs survive and understand the world around them, and will
not hold them back from making progress, and traditions, of
their own.
- The Most Honourable Marquess of Ailsa, Head of Clan
Kennedy
The Kate Kennedy
Club 2014
President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer
Keeper of the Costumes and Shields
Keeper of the Coaches
Pro-Keeper of the Costumes and Sheilds
Marshal of the Procession
F.H.C. Walters
E. J. Haxby
C.T. Larsen
C.G.O. Cutting
H.C.H. Baylis
G.E.H. Herslow
D.G. Martin
E. Fry
Editors of the Annual C.J.A. Perriam
A.A. Bowman
Published by the Kate Kennedy Club
University of St Andrews
April, 2014
Printed by
Cambrian Printers
Cover photograph
courtesy of Dawn
White Photgraphy
(www.dawnwhite-
weddings.co.uk)
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CONTENTS
Foreword / 3
The Kate Kennedy Club / 5
Presidents Welcome / 7
Editorial / 9
Ode to the Lady Katharine Kennedy / 16
Shooting for the Silver Arrow / 17
Route of the Procession / 20
The Procession / 21
Dramatis Personae / 26
The Charities / 36
Club Pantomime 2014: Greece, The Musical / 38
The Restoration of Archbishop James Sharps Carriage /40
Before the Procession / 42
The Day of the Procession / 43
Courage to Have Some Fun / 45
The Lions Rampant, Where? and the Wardrobe / 47
The Marvellous Merchiston / 48
Ladies and Gentlemen, it is with the utmost pleasure that I wel-
come you all to the 2014 Kate Kennedy Procession. For many of
you todays Procession will be but one of a number that you have
seen. There are others, however, who will not yet have witnessed
a Kate Kennedy Spring Procession, and to whom the events of
today will seem an eccentric novelty. In a sense, the Procession
is about just that: the old and the new together. After a dour
and dreary winter we welcome the advent of spring by honouring
those who have gone before us those who have made a last-
ing impact on this wonderful town and its prestigious University.
The Procession is simultaneously a celebration of the past and
of the future; unique to St Andrews, and particularly pertinent
this year.
On Saturday 30th November 2013 the University of St An-
drews concluded its 600th Anniversary celebrations. The Ma-
dras College Pipe Band led a parade from Holy Trinity to St
Salvators Quadrangle, and at the centre of this parade was St
Andrew himself. There could not have been a more appropriate
conclusion to the anniversary of our Universitys foundation than
a procession. At its height St Andrews was the fourth-biggest
pilgrimage destination in Europe, attracting over a quarter of a
million travellers each year. The three main streets were speci-
cally laid out to lead pilgrims to and from St Andrews Cathedral
a street plan that eventually brought the wealth and distinc-
tion needed for the foundation of a University. For the past 600
years, therefore, we owe a great deal to this towns processional
heritage. The very same St Andrew that concluded the 600th
Anniversary shall lead the 2014 Kate Kennedy Procession. 600
years are now behind us, and it is with great honour and pride that
we carry that past forward today.
There are a great many people who make the Kate Kennedy Pro-
cession possible every year, and they all deserve thanks and rec-
ognition. Firstly, it would be an oversight were I not to mention
the inuence of Sir James Irvine on the Processions revival. In
1911 the University of St Andrews celebrated its Quincentenary,
and the then Professor Irvine was one of two convenors of the
festivities. Guests were delighted by an evening pageant of his-
toric characters of St Andrews, and on the following day Profes-
Presidents Welcome
FRANCI S WALTERS PRESI DENT OF THE KATE KENNEDY CLUB
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sor Irvine led a guided tour of the historic streets. The anniversary
must have struck a chord with Irvine; fteen years later he helped
form The Kate Kennedy Club, along with students James Doak
and Donald Kennedy, in order to reinstate an annual springtime
procession. The Procession you see today has evolved and ex-
panded over the years, and a great many people have helped it
stay true to its essence whilst embracing new histories and char-
acters.
There are two members of The Kate Kennedy Club who have
worked tirelessly over the past year to organise and deliver this
years Procession. The Marshal, Edward Fry, and the Keeper of
the Costumes and Shields, Henry Baylis, have had their work
cut out to follow last years magnicent show, and I ofer them a
great many thanks on behalf of The Kate Kennedy Club and The
Kate Kennedy Trust.
Thanks must also go to the permanent members of The Kate
Kennedy Trust the registered charity that owns and maintains
all the costumes, shields and coaches that make the Procession
what it is. Whether it be organising a facelift for a certain charac-
ter, or planning the wholesale renovation of a horse-drawn coach,
the Trust is always pursuing measures to improve the Procession
for the benet of those watching. For their generous and in-
valuable advice to me personally, however, I must give personal
thanks to Martin Passmore, the Chairman of the Trust, and to
Frank Quinault, its Treasurer. Furthermore, Wendy Quinault de-
serves considerable recognition for all that she has done and all
that she continues to do for the Kate Kennedy Procession. Wen-
dy displays enormous dedication and patience every year when
preparing, altering and cleaning the costumes, and I must give
her thanks on behalf of everyone involved today the Procession
could not happen without you!
There are numerous others who are integral to the running of
the Procession. Many of them have no formal link to The Kate
Kennedy Club or Trust, but they nevertheless ofer their help out
of love and dedication to this town and University. To all of those
who have helped, whether you are playing a character today, or
have worked unnoticed behind the scenes, The Kate Kennedy
Club and I are truly indebted to you, and I give you my sincere
thanks. Finally, to all those who are watching to those old and
new who line our streets that were built for days like today I
give thanks for your support and company on this wonderful oc-
casion in St Andrews.
THE KATE KENNEDY CLUB
CHARITY MAY BALL
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Dear Reader,
What is it we think of when we consider the aspect of the
past? I found myself pondering this very question one too-
early morning late last year as I sat in a medieval poetry
tutorial, groggy, gormless and woefully unprepared.
Much like a narrator in one of the very dream-visions
favoured by those bygone Makars of the fteenth and
sixteenth centuries, I found myself slipping into a blissful
state of half-sleep when, all at once, I was roused from my
reverie by the utterance of three somehow familiar names.
William Dunbar Gavin Douglas Sir David Lindsay of the
Mount: these were no Edmund Fitz-whats-his-names or
Wulfric de Something-or-others. These were people I had
heard of before; people I had even seen!
The regulars among you will, like me, know that those three
dusty poets of a distant age an age of chivalry, of rhetoric,
and of tightly-tting trousers are all united by the fact
that they were sons of St Andrews whose words once more
ring through these streets each year with the passing of the
Kate Kennedy Spring Procession. And with this knowledge,
I found myself possessed of a newfound interest, born of
afnity and proximity, in a literature which had previously
seemed remote and archaic.
I began to enjoy the minutely observed, raucously funny
dialect of Dunbars Two Married Women and the Widow,
and to appreciate the dazzling brilliance of his gemlike
landscape in The Golden Targe. I discovered that Gavin
Douglas had not only produced the rst vernacular,
accessible translation of Homers Aeneid, but that it was
accompanied by the intelligent, personal commentary of
a cultured and witty man. Most of all, I was transxed by
Lindsays compelling portrait of the life and gruesome
death of the wicked Cardinal Beaton, set down by a
man who knew him all too well (I even made notes for that
tutorial).
What struck me most in my readings of these poets, who I
came to regard as so much more than just names in a book,
was that they all three operated within a long-established
and relatively rigid poetic tradition (inspired, if youre
interested, by Geofrey Chaucer & co.) and yet they, true
Renaissance men, were equally capable of manipulating and
reinventing that tradition. These men considered the poetry
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of Chaucer, of ancient folk tales, and even of Homer, and
applied three key concepts to that history: imitatio, variatio
and aemulatio, or imitation, variation and emulation.
When I came to put together this College Echoes, I knew
instinctively that I wanted to focus upon tradition, and our
handling thereof. Inspired by my predecessor Leo Thuns
edition of last year, the design and content of which harked
back to the Annuals of the twenties and thirties, I decided
that I should focus once again upon the past but in this
case, I wanted not just to imitate, imitatio, that past, but that
I wanted to attempt to get to grips with the way in which
it exists today: to explore, more specically, how The Kate
Kennedy Club deals with tradition, and to get back to the
basics of what the Club is about the very reasons why it
exists.
You will hopefully know that The Kate Kennedy Club was
founded, in 1926, by two students inspired by then-Rector
Sir J.M. Barries address to the University on Courage.
With the enthusiastic support of Principal James Irvine
St Andrews Second Founder the Club was, rst and
foremost, to ensure the continuation and prosperity unto
posterity of the Kate Kennedy Spring Procession, which
also served the additional three aims of maintaining
Andreapolitan traditions, upholding and improving the
relationship between the local populace and the student
body, and raising funds for worthy local causes. But why
does the Club really exist? Why do a group of young men
and women bother to occupy time that should really be
spent on that essay worrying about dressing up and parading
around town one day a year?
Leang through my fathers old copy of Ronald Cants
history of the University, I think I can perceive some
route to an answer. This slim and yet authoritative volume
is full of rich description of the rituals and traditions that
you would expect of an institution whose narrative spans
some six centuries. Many of these are now lost, consigned
to the waste-paper basket of history: the inuence of the
Church is perhaps the most obvious to an observer of our
town, although the gardens of St Leonards College are also
conspicuous by their absence in the University of today,
together with the rattle of the early students silver spoons
and the austere asceticism of the collegiate pallet.
Other traditions, a great many, have changed almost beyond
recognition: the medieval Rector, a holy gure invested
with great power and dignity, his election accompanied
by all the pomp and circumstance of a University-wide
congregation, would perhaps frown on the incumbent of
our days; matriculation lost much of its status with the
Commissions of the nineteenth century, a period which also
saw the signicant alteration of the undergraduate gown;
degree ceremonies no longer go hand-in-hand with the
obligatory provision of a stately banquet and a ne pair of
gloves for ones professors (a change universally welcomed
by undergraduate pockets) and, perhaps most signicantly,
Raisin weekend has become somewhat more debauched (a
change universally decried by undergraduate livers).
Some things, however, remain the same from the earliest
days of the University, and these include the codied system
of academic seniority the bejant of today, interestingly,
was, until around 1800 more commonly a bajan as well
as the inuence of Bishop Kennedy and his niece on the
town. This latter can be perceived not only in the physical
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dominance of Kennedys imposing collegiate chapel of St
Salvator, along with its tower and quadrangle, from which
todays Procession will issue forth; but, indeed, it may also
be understood in the name of the bell which ex-tolls the
start of that spectacle, and in the face of that personication
of youth and vitality who has captivated countless student
hearts and imaginations since her rst appearance so many
years ago, and continues to do so thanks to the eforts of
The Kate Kennedy Club.
And what of the KK today, compared to its earlier
incarnations? Well, therein is embodied another of
our seemingly perennial traditions what Cant calls a
fundamental lack of harmony between the two halves of the
academic community; between what is today, and perhaps
ever was, the sober administrative side of the Di-versity,
and the scurrilous students who have at times alternately
scufed with bows and arrows and dressed up one of their
number for a Victorian rag, but have always and will always
defend ferociously and fervently their independence.
The Victorian revival of the Spring Procession coincided
with a nadir in the fortunes of a University that in 1867 had
only one hundred and thirty students enrolled, but also with
an exciting sense of undergraduate spirit so gracefully
expressed in the poems of Robert Fuller Murray as
well as a reinvigoration of the town of St Andrews under
the auspices of Sir Hugh Lyon Playfair that saw its star
exponentially in the ascendant. Around this same time the
University began to engage with the local community in a
manner not seen since the days before John Knox and his
Reformation, in 1877 establishing a system of examinations
in town schools. By the time Principal Irvine went to his
well-deserved rest in 1952, both University and Town were
ourishing in tandem, and his sponsorship of the revival of
a Procession that had become farcical by the 1880s, now
overseen by an organisation that was set up specically to
safeguard its success, must be understood in the spirit not
only of mutual benecence for the two halves of both the
University and of St Andrews as a whole, but in the spirit of
a unique St Andrews experience.
For it is that tradition of the exceptional which the
Procession principally celebrates, and that tradition which
is central to The Kate Kennedy Clubs existence. The
Club of today may be diferent from its forebears, but its
changes its variatio, to return to an earlier theme have, I
would opine, been overwhelmingly for the better. It always
saddens me to hear the same tired accusations leveled
against my compatriots and I, whose society only exists for
the benet of St Andrews at large. Claims of racism and
sexism are today easily sloughed of, the latter it is to be
hoped once and for all by the recent integration of our
phenomenal female members. Charges of snobbery are
equally as ridiculous, although sadly less easy to combat
and ignorance is its own sustenance. The Club has, perhaps
dogmatically, maintained throughout its evolution the
immutable tenet that discretion is the better part of valour,
and our PR stock may have sufered as a result; yet I, for
one, have a suspicion that some things will never change.
I suppose I should at this point crack on with the task in hand
and introduce you properly to this years College Echoes.
Aiming to examine why The Kate Kennedy Club exists,
and to investigate the threefold manner of the treatment
of tradition, I have continued the example of last years
magazine in presenting a number of articles united by these
thematic concerns, whilst simultaneously contributing my
own slender share. You will already have noticed the cover
image, which recalls that of The Beatles album Sgt. Peppers
Lonely Hearts Club Band. Throughout this years Echoes, you
may recognise a couple of other classic album covers that
have been given a KK twist! I have attempted to not just
imitate, but to variegate and emulate these iconic images,
which herein all feature Procession characters prominently
the eagle-eyed among you should hopefully be able to
pinpoint which ones.
My inspiration in this was the idea of tradition as being similar
to a musical theme a melody which may be transmuted
into numerous variations within the context of an entire
symphony, or a guitar solo which returns to the same rif,
but something that nevertheless retains throughout an
unchanged, integral quality. The primacy of orality in the
preservation of history was another consideration and
this was again recalled by the gures of my three poets. I
additionally wanted to stress the contemporary relevance
of the gures in the Spring Procession by having them
participate in re-creations of several instantly recognisable
tableaux of modernity, I hoped that the continued
importance of the past in helping us to understand our
place in the present especially in present-day St Andrews
would be underlined.
In this endeavour my wholehearted thanks must go to Emma
Raventos, for her graphical expertise and wizardry in all
things Photoshop her assistance was invaluable in making
my vision a reality. I would also like to thank Aiden Bowman,
without whom this College Echoes would not be possible,
and who was responsible for the design of the magazine you
hold in your hands. My fellow Club members, who devoted
their time and energy towards creating the many interesting
articles which ll this Annual (and who possessed a great
deal of patience in posing for my photographs) also come
in for thanks, along with the Marquess of Ailsa, head of the
Kennedy family, for providing an exceptional Foreword.
Finally you will be relieved to read that I must extend
my warmest thanks to you, dear reader. In celebrating
todays Kate Kennedy Spring Procession and in purchasing
this magazine you not only help to continue the remarkable
tradition of a St Andrews experience that belongs to all of us,
but you are also directly supporting Home Start, helping to
change the lives of families in and around our town for the
better. The Kate Kennedy Club and its activities may not
always be properly appreciated by everybody, but it is our
sincere hope that you enjoy this most special of days and our
attempt at aemulatio at continuing the legacy of the past
whilst simultaneously improving the prospect of the future
with an immanent present.
- C.J.A. Perriam, Editor of the College Echoes MMXIV
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As serving archivist in The Kate Kennedy Club for 2013-2014,
it has been my pleasure to curate and watch over the extensive
archives which the Club nds in its possession. The role of the
archivist is particularly important when we recall a fundamental
aim of the Club - to maintain and uphold the traditions of the
town and of the University. With Club record books and consti-
tutional documentation spanning back as far as the 1920s, and
some articles reaching back further still, the archives contain a
wealth of information on such traditions and are truly a gem of
the University Librarys Special Collections department.
Any comprehensive commentary on the work of an archivist
must begin with a look back at the nature of written communica-
tion. Throughout human history, orality has been the metaphori-
cal rule, and literacy the exception. But since its inception in an-
cient neolithic symbols, dating back to the sixth millennium BC,
writing has been profoundly legitimised as a form of recording
history and establishing legacy in the world. More than any other
human invention, writing has transformed human consciousness.
Archival spaces exist to document and collect, to symbolise and
preserve. They also help us to control the present, give us scale
and help us with efciencies. In the context of The Kate Kennedy
Club, the scale and wealth of knowledge and tradition is stagger-
ing. One demonstrative example of this might be the Silver Ar-
row Archery Competition, which represents a prestigious part of
the archery world, even today acting as a qualier for the Olym-
pics! The competition has its roots in the seventeenth century,
where it was introduced in 1618 as an annual event, organised by
the Universitys Faculty of Arts, to identify the champion archer
of its students. The area of St Andrews where the bandstand lies
today, between the Martyrs Memorial and the R&A clubhouse,
was for several centuries the site of the University Bow Butts,
archery being a popular recreational pursuit of the well-rounded
Kate Kennedy Archivist 2014:
Shooting for the Silver Arrow
TOMMY VERMEI R CLUB ARCHI VI ST
Ode to the Lady Katharine Kennedy
In time before the lusty Pict fell stricken to his knees
Beneath a bloodied azure sky rent by a cloudy cross;
Before a box of bones was dredged from torrid, ancient seas
When only roamed the boars betwixt the trees and muck and moss
In solemn sunlit glades bereft of sound beyond a grunt
There dwelt a spirit fair and old that never could be caught.
Beheld, perhaps, by one who wandered from the royal hunt
But gone before naught but a feeling could to bay be brought.
And when the hermit in his cell prayed to his foreign God
A rude and rugged Rule which told of death turned back to life
The yellow owers bloomed upon the barren blessd sod
With heady incensed scent that lingered: Natures fragrant wife.
In later days they called her Kate, this spirit of the spring,
And many were the toasts they raised to Bishop Jamess niece.
They built a tower and a bell so they might hear her sing
A song of courage, strength and hope; a song of love and peace.
The smiling girl is gone to dust; the palace rooms are dark.
The owers of the altar and the church were long ago.
No more the tusking boars come crashing through the forest park
But still the spirit moves among the ones who would her know.
Today she sallies forth once more, and hope is sprung anew:
The people, owers and the sun will welcome her at last!
And no mere student is this spirit clothed in freshest hue:
She is a gure of a future promised in the past.
Bishop Perriam
Nevis, WI
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undergraduate (as well as an occasional last resort in collegiate
conicts!). Winners of the annual competition including Pro-
cession characters James Graham, Alexander Robertson, Tulli-
bardine and George Dempster would be entitled to the honour
of having their name inscribed on a silver pendant, which was
then hung from the eponymous silver arrow several of these
arrows and medals can today be seen in MUSA, on the Scores.
The competition seems to have died out following the unication
of the Colleges of St Salvators and St Leonards in 1747, when
the University was in decline.
When The Kate Kennedy Club revived the competition in 1970,
it was a testament to the love the Club members had for the
cultural history of the university, and their commitment to its
preservation and organisation going forward into the future. This
readily serves to illustrate the dedication that is expected of each
Club member, and is typical of one of our aims: the continuation
of what is an important part of an ongoing chapter in the history
of our University of St Andrews.
In 2012 the University of St Andrews Archery Club formally
took over the principal management of the planning and running
of all archery aspects of the Silver Arrow Competition archers
in the KK being few and far between in order to bring it in
line with Scottish Archery Association (SAA) rules and regula-
tions for the hosting of archery competitions in Scotland. Most
recently, the status of the competition has been elevated to a
position where its results may now contribute towards Olympic
qualication for those participating. The competition is still run
in very close partnership with The Kate Kennedy Club, and the
event has even acted as a platform for another of the Clubs mis-
sions: to raise money for local Fife charities.
This is just one of many stories recorded in the Clubs archives.
In working to perpetuate this piece of St Andrews history, so
deeply intertwined with the lives of many illustrious graduates
seen walking again today, one realises that our tenancy in this
Club, and indeed at this University, is but a eeting moment,
and that the opportunities aforded to us by these institutions
also hold with them a responsibility to immerse ourselves in our
experiences and to give back to our community, just as the giants
of old once did.
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THE PRELUDE
Saint Andrew - saint of town and university. He bears before
him the cross on which he sufered in Greece, and which was
to become the saltire of the Scottish national ag. A reminder
that St. Andrews was once the ecclesiastical capital of Scotland.
The University Shield - We shall spare you the heraldic analysis
thereof.
The Three Highland Pipers - Speak for themselves.
St Regulus - A Greek of Patras, where St Andrew sufered
martyrdom, who is said to have received divine warning to
Depart from thine own land, thy kindred, and thy house, and
go into the land which I shall show thee. Regulus after long
voyaging landed on the coast of Pictland, bringing with him
the bones of St. Andrew. This spot became sacred, the goal of
pilgrims and the home of the Scottish Church.
The Two Culdee Monks - These monks of the ancient Celtic
Church in Scotland maintained the Church of Our Lady on
the Rock long after the Canons of the Roman Church were
established in the Cathedral. The Site of their church maybe
be seen on the Kirkheugh, at the head of the path leading down
to St. Andrews harbour, although the remains to be seen there
now are of a 12th Century Collegiate Church.
Queen Margaret (c. 1047 - 1093)- A princess of the Royal
Saxon line, she ed the Norman Conquest of England by ship
yet was, somewhat fortuitously, blown ashore on the coast of
Fife. She met King Malcome III of Scotland, and married him in
1070. With the help Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury, she
reformed religion in Scotland. Often the altruist, her manners
extended to improving the table manners of the knights at
court, who one can imagine were more aquatinted with swords
than spoons.
THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
Bishop William de Lamberton (c. 1265-1328) Lamberton is
renowned for his inuential role in the cause for independence.
William Wallace made him Bishop of St Andrews, a title he
held on to until his death. During his tenure he completed the
building of the Cathedral and ofciated at its consecration in
1318. Just 18 days before his death England formally recognized
Scotland as a completely independent state. He will have no
doubt died a happy man.
King Robert the Bruce (1274-1329) The King of Norman stock,
who free Scotland from the Sassenach menace, although he
rather let the side down by a little preliminary fth-column
work and the murder of the Red Comyn in a Dumfries church.
He attended the dedication of St Andrews Cathedral by Bishop
Lamberton in 1318 where he rode his horse up the Isle. He also
could have learnt something from Queen Margaret.
THE FOUNDING OF THE UNIVERSITY
Bishop Henry Wardlaw (1372-1423) Amid the bloodshed of the
civil war, this Bishop of St Andrews founded the rst University
in Scotland, the third in Britain. You may still hear the good
people of St Andrews, or a few of the older inhabitants at any
rate, talk wistfully of days when all they had to contend with was
civil war. He is also responsible for burning the rst heretic in
Scotland: Paul Craw on Market Street in 1424.
Pedro de Luna, Pope Benedict XIII (1328- 1423) A Spaniard, and
the last of the easy going Popes of Avignon. In 1413 he issued
6 Papal Bulls conrming the foundation of the University by
Bishop Wardlaw in 1411 of the University of St Andrews. His
decision to support St Andrews can be attributed to an act of
crafty political manoeuvring by James I of Scotland. He wrote
to Benedict on behalf of the Church of St Andrews, himself and
the Estates of Scotland. As Benedict did not want to lose his
most avid supporters he had no choice but to agree.
Henry Ogilvy - A Master of Arts of the University of Paris and a
priest of the diocese of St Andrews was sent to Benedicts court
in Spain to collect the Papal Bulls, of which only one survives.
Leaving on the 28th August 1413 he arrived in St Andrews on
the 3rd February 1414 where he was welcomed by the bells and
much debauchery.
King James I (1394-1437) When his mother died in 1402 James
was sent to St Andrews and placed under the care of Bishop
Wardlaw where he remained until 1406. The application to
Pope Benedict for the recognition of the University bears his
name and his emblem, a lion rampant, is a component of the
Universitys coat of arms. He placed the University under his
personal protection in 1432, exempting its members from all
taxation, and drew up a code of discipline for the Faculty of
Arts, which seems to have been gleefully forgotten by todays
undergraduates. His brave attempts to reform the legislation of
Scotland and control the Scottish Nobles led to his murder in
1437 by the rebel Sir Robert Graham.
THE MASTER OF ST JOHNS COLLEGE
Laurence of Lindores (1373-1437) Appointed Master of the
College of St John by Bishop Wardlaw in 1419 and subsequently
the rst Rector of the University, Laurence was the most
notable scholar of its early days. He must also have been a
somewhat sinister gure; for thirty years, as Inquisitor of
Heretical Pravity, he persecuted the Lollards, being responsible
together with Bishop Wardlaw, for the kindling of the rst
martyr re in Scotland.
FOUNDERS OF ST LEONARDS COLLEGE
Archbishop Stewart (1495-1513) An illegitimate son of James
IV. He was made Bishop of St. Andrews in 1505, at the age of
12, but lived only till 1513, being killed along with his father at the
Battle of Flodden. We remember him as a brilliant scholar who
studied under Erasmus, as one of the founders of St. Leonards
College.
Prior John Hepburn (1460-1522) The other founder of St
Leonards College in 1512. He and his nephew, Prior Patrick
Hepburn, saw to the building of the Abbey Wall, much of which
still remains today. An excellent administrator, but an ambitious
and unscrupulous politician.
SCOTTISH POETS
William Dunbar (1460-1530) Studied at the University between
1475 and 1479 which after he was to become one of the greatest
Scottish poets of all time. (An accolade?). Surviving this initial
setback, he later became the ofcial Rhymer in the household
of James IV.
Gavin Douglas (1472-1522) Third son to the Earl of Angus who
studied at St Andrews from 1489 to 1494. He was interestingly
the rst person to translate Virgils Aenid into Scots.
Sir David Lindsay of the Mount (1490-1555) He studied at
St Andrews from 1505 to 1508 and went on to become the
personal favourite poet of James V whose loose morals he did
not fail to criticise. He was also made Poet Laureate at Scottish
Court.
MARTYRS OF THE KIRK
Patrick Hamilton (1504-1528) Student at St.Andrews in
1523, he was destined to be rst of the Protestant Martyrs in
Scotland, and in February, 1528, was burned for heresy outside
the gates of St. Salvators College. His initials in the cobbles
there mark the place where he died, and it is a student tradition
to avoid walking over that spot. His contemporaries estimated
that the reik of Maister Patrik Hammyltoun has infected as
many as it blew upon.
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George Wishart (1514-1546) Another famous martyr of the
Scottish Reformation, accompanied on his preaching journeys
by John Knox, who carried the great sword before him. Wishart
was burned on 1st March 1546, opposite the gateway to the
Castle where Cardinal Beaton was to sufer for this crime soon
afterwards.
FOUNDERS OF ST MARYS COLLEGE
Archbishop James Beaton (1473-1539) Obtained the Bull of
Foundation for St. Marys College from Pope Paul III, in 1537.
A rather shady character, known by the Sessenach as crafter
and dissimulating.
Cardinal David Beaton (1494-1546) Abbot of Arbroath 1523,
Cardinal 1538, Archbishop of St. Andrews 1546. A skilled
diplomatist and statesman with a pro-French and anti-English
policy. On the morning of 29th May 1546, the citizens of St.
Andrews awoke to nd the body of the Cardinal dangling by a
sheet from one of the Castle windows - the work of Wisharts
avengers.
Archbishop John Hamilton (1511-1571) Completed the
foundation of St. Marys College, and made a last futile bid to
save Scotland for Catholicism. It was from a window of his house
in Linlithgow that the Regent Moray was shot, and in April 1571
Hamilton was hanged for his share in the crime.
THE REFORMATION
John Knox (1505-1572) The great leader of the Scottish
Reformation. During the earlier part of his career was a lecturer
in logic in St. Andrews University, itself a breeding ground
for the new Protestant ideas. Later accepted the call to the
ministry while with the besieged Protestants in St. Andrews
Castle following the murder of Beaton. Frequently preached
in the parish church of St. Andrews. Abhorred the monstrous
regiment of women - but married two of them (consecutively).
George Buchanan (1506-1582) Buchanan studied in St Andrews
and in Paris. Although he did not declare him-self Protestant
until 1560, he attacked the Church in many of his writings and
spent time as a prisoner of the Inquisition in Portugal. He was the
most notable scholar of the Scottish Reformation: a theologian,
a political theorist, a Latin dramatist and the greatest Humanist
of his day. He was Principal of St Leonards from 1567-1569, an
ofce he left to become tutor to James VI.
Andrew Melville (1545-1622) Student at St.Andrews, became
Principal of St.Marys College. A strong Calvinist, resenting
Episcopacy on the grounds that all ministers should be of equal
standing. The bane of James VI.s life. Once, clutching him by
the sleeve, called him Gods silly vassal with, perhaps, the
addition of a few less theological expressions.
CROWN AND COURTIERS
Mary Queen of Scots (1542-1587) The beautiful, brave, tragic
gure who backed the losing side in the Scottish Reformation.
The house in which she stayed while in St. Andrews is situated
at the end of South Street, near the Cathedral. The thorn three
which she planted in St. Marys quadrangle has hung like the sword
of Damocles over every subsequent age of University gardeners.
Pierre de Chastelard (1540-1562) Chastelard was a young
French courtier who had accompanied Mary from Calais and
who wrote lyrical verses about her in French and Italian. She,
in turn, was friendly to him and he boasted that she was his
mistress. One night a maid discovered him under Marys bed,
and two nights later he hid in her room as she went to bed. He
was beheaded a week later in St Andrews. In the Procession he
is depicted as Marys Groom.
James Crichton of Eliock, The Admirable Crichton (1560-
1583) Student at St. Salvators College, 1570-1575, and the
greatest St. Andrews all rounder of all time. Accomplished
in almost every art and sport, he was particularly noted for his
swordsmanship. Spent much time in Italy, his versatility winning
for him great renown in the society of Rome, and assassination
in the darkness of a backstreet while returning to his lodgings
King James VI (1566-1625) His accession to the throne of
England in 1603 allowed him to escape from the domination
of Melville and the Scots Kirk, but his eforts at statesmanship
earned for him only a reputation as the wisest fool in
Christendom
Marquis of Montrose (1612-1650) Student in St. Salvators
College (1612-1650). Had a disconcerting habit of shooting
arrows over the College Tower without calling Fore, but
collected several medals for archery, probably by way of tactful
suggestion from the Senatus that he might go and practice
elsewhere. Supported rst the Covenant, later the King, but a
good type from every point of view.
King Charles II (1630-1685) Reigned for ten years as King of
Scotland before his restoration to the English throne in 1660.
The ablest of the Stuarts, with an eye for good fruit.
EARLY SCIENTISTS
Napier of Merchiston (1550-1617) A product of the College of
St. Salvator. His hobby was inventing secret weapons, and in
1569 suggested the use of tanks in warfare. His more serious
interests lay in philosophy, theology and agriculture, and he is
now chiey remembered for his invention of logarithm - which,
on the whole, was probably a good thing
Sir Robert Moray (c. 1610-1673) Graduate of St. Andrews and
founder of the Royal Society. Soldier during the Commonwealth
and chemist following the Restoration.
James Gregory (1638-1675) Professor of Mathematics in
the University of St. Andrews in 1688. He expounded the
Newtonian theory while Cambridge was still wondering what
it was all about. Cambridge, however, may have been pre-
occupied with the Boat Race, which they won that year.
THE NATIONAL COVENANT
Alexander Henderson (1583-1646) Henderson graduated
from St Andrews in 1604 and was inducted into the charge
of Leuchars in 1614. This former regent of St Salvators
College was one of the Presbyterian leaders who opposed the
introduction of the English Prayer Book in 1637. Henderson
took the leading role in the Covenant movement in Edinburgh,
in the way Samuel Rutherford did in St Andrews. His generous
gift of one thousand pounds did much towards the completion
of the University Library, which had been sadly neglected for
many years.
Samuel Rutherford (c. 1600-1661) Rutherford graduated
from Edinburgh in 1617 where he spent some years as a regent
of Arts, but resigned because of a scandal in the College.
Thereafter he took to the study of Theology. He became a
minister in Galloway, but because of his refusal to conform to
the Royal Will in religious ceremonies was banished for a period
to Aberdeen. The reaction to the National Covenant brought
Rutherford to the Principalship of St Marys College in 1647,
a position he held until his death. He was on several occasions
Rector of the University. His greatest literary work, Lex Rex
(The Law is King), which he carries, defended the rights of the
state against the crown. After the Restoration it was publicly
burnt at the gates of his college in 1661.
John Graham of Claverhouse (1649-1689), 1
st
Viscount Dundee
(1649-1689) Graham graduated with a M.A. from St Salvators
at the age of fourteen, in 1663. He became a soldier on the
continent, was active in suppression of the Covenant on his
return, became a Privy Councillor, Provost of Dundee, and
nally leader of the Stuart Party in Scotland on the Deposition
D R A M A T I S
The Prelude
St Andrew Jack Merriman
The University Arms Mona Tiesler
Lion Supporter Becky Bottle
St Andrew Supporter Jack Bates
1st, 2nd and 3rd Highland Piper St Andrews Pipe Band
The Early Church
St Regulus Nathaniel Clark
First Culdee Emma MacMaster
Second Culdee Shona Miller
Shieldbearer to Queen Margaret Nick Cassella
Queen Margaret Yousra Elbagir
The War of Independence
Crossbearer to Lamberton Stanley Lister
Bishop William de Lamberton Christofer Markoo
Shieldbearer to Lamberton Ariana Brighenti
King Robert the Bruce (Mounted) Jamie Perriam
The Founding of the University
Crossbearer to Wardlaw Lucy Coatman
Bishop Henry Wardlaw Chris Kunkler
Shieldbearer to Wardlaw Steven Fan
Crossbearer to Benedict Sophie Wihlborn
Pope Benedict XIII Edward Battle
Shieldbearer to Pope Benedict XIII Ashton Squires
Henry Ogilvy Ben Conway
Shieldbearer to James I Scott Lomas
King James I Gino Di Castri
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The Master of St Johns College
Laurence of Lindores Pat Mathewson
The Founders of St Leonards College
Archbishop Alexander Stewart (Mounted) Ollie Cutting
Crossbearer to Prior Hepburn Rosie Tasker
Prior John Hepburn Andrew Shen
Shieldbearer to Prior Hepburn Andrew Van Kralingen
Scottish Poets
William Dunbar Benoit Grogan- Avignon
Gavin Douglas Ally Ferrans
Sir David Lindsay of the Mount Scott Schorr

Martyrs of the Kirk
Patrick Hamilton Talia Saralovic
George Wishart Isla McNaught

Founders of St Marys College
Crossbearer to Archbishop Beaton Victoria Bucci-Marconi
Archbishop James Beaton Sam Ummat
Shieldbearer to Archbishop Beaton Lewis Scott
Crossbearer to Cardinal Beaton Jack Hannay
Cardinal David Beaton Max Campbell
Shieldbearer to Cardinal Beaton Nina Haanes Hessenv
Crossbearer to Archbishop Hamilton Will Morris
Archbishop John Hamilton Jefrey MacDonald
Shieldbearer to Archbishop Hamilton Rachel Hassell
The Reformation
John Knox Malin Herrstrom
George Buchanan Zhanna Tarasko
Andrew Melville Emily Swaddle

Crown and Courtiers
Shieldbearer to Mary Queen of Scots Sam Schmid
Mary Queen of Scots (Mounted) Georgina Church
Pierre de Chastelard Stella Schmadl
James Crichton of Eliock and Clunie (Mounted) Abhiroop Gupta
Shieldbearer to James VI Daniel Green
King James VI of Scotland Noah Ohringer
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James Graham, Marq. Montrose Will Carlough
King Charles II (Mounted) Mark Jones

Early Scientists
John Napier of Merchiston Andrew Whyte
Sir Robert Moray Graeme Scott
James Gregory Patrick Sandquist

P E R S O N A E
The National Covenant
Alexander Henderson David Earnshaw
Samuel Rutherford Nick Constantine
John Graham,Claverhouse, Vis. Dundee Anthony Perriam
Archbishop James Sharp Henry Baylis
Isabel, Daughter of Sharp Kate Keohane
Groom to Sharp James Goddard
David Hackston of Rathillet Jamie-Calder Smith
James Balfour of Kinloch Casey Larsen
William McKean of Argyle Gustav Herslow

The 15 and the 45
William Murray, Marq of Tullibardine (Mounted) David Martin
Alexander Robertson of Struan Matthew Emslie-Smith
Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat Morna Spence

Revolution and Reform
Benjamin Franklin Spencer Bienvenue
George Dempster of Dunnichen Connie Bakker
James Wilson Arthur Cohen
Jean Paul Marat Akira Watson

18th Century Scholarship
Robert Fergusson Thomas Vermeir
Andrew Bell Anas Touton
Attendant to Bell Tessa Caldwell
Thomas Chalmers Marion Caldwell
19th Century Students
John Honey David Winokurow
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Amy Heather
Andrew Lang Kristofer Gravning
Robert Fuller Murray Isobel Carter

Benefactors of the University
Mary Ann Baxter of Balgavies Miranda Spencer
John Crichton-Stuart, 3
rd
Marq. Bute Immanuel Jebsen
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Andrew Carnegie James Penn

Academia and Research
Sir David Brewster Ari Ewig
Professor John Burnet Mia Clayton
Sir DArcy Wentworth Thompson Vanita Nathwani
Sir James Colquhoun Irvine Robin Evetts

Famous Golfers
Allan Robertson Ben Pearson-Stuttard
Tom Morris Jess Walker
David Daw Anderson Ben Conway
Tom Morris Jr. Dodes Page
Robert Tyre Jones Jr. Jacob Murphy

Prominent Citizens
The Town Arms Alexander Lindsay
Sir Hugh Lyon Playfair Alexander Heller
Joan Clark Mariya Denyer
Dr John Adamson Graham Dalton
Dame Louisa Lumsden Sarah Clark
Alexander Paterson Frank Quinalt

Lords Rector of the University
The Students Association Arms Teddy Woodhouse
John Stuart Mill Jamie Forlan
Sir James Matthew Barrie Alistair MacMahon
Field Marshal Earl Haig Mikkel Andreasson
Fridtjof Nansen Mikkel Skajem
Rudyard Kipling Milla Brydon
Frank Muir Hugh McCullogh
John Cleese Christy White-Spunner

In Memoriam
Joseph Duthie Thomas Whelan

The Equipage of the Lady Katherine
Shieldbearer to Bishop Kennedy Patrick Donegan
Kates Herald (Mounted) Hendrik Geiger
Kates Footman Ted Haxby
Kates Page Henrietta Evett
Bishop James Kennedy Francis Walters
Kates Jester Charles Behan
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of James VII. He was killed at the battle of Killiecrankie in his
moment of victory in 1689.
Archbishop Sharp (1613-1679) Professor of Philosophy in St.
Marys College, later Primate of Scotland. His philosophy was
apparently distasteful to some, for he met with a gory end while
driving his coach on Magus Muir. A cairn marks the spot.
THE 15 AND THE 45
Maruis of Tullibardine (1689-1746) Son of the 1
st
Duke of
Atholl, Chancellor of the University, William Murray was a
student here. One of the rst to join the Chevalier in 1715,
he had to ee from Sherrifmuir in 1719, went into exile and
was one of the seven who landed with Bonny Prince Charlie at
Borodale in 1745. He had the honour of unfurling the standard
at Glennnan and of reading a manifesto for James VIII, but
was captured at Culloden and eventually died in the Tower of
London.
Robertson of Struan (1670-1749) A St. Andrews student with a
denite partiality towards the old noggin and la vie parisienne.
This, however, didnt stop him taking part in the Calcutta Cup
matches of 88, 15 and 45. A good type.
Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat (1726-1782) Another St. Andrews
cap in the team of 45. He interrupted his studies to represent
his country, but the fact that he later became a general under
George III may have disqualied him for a Further Education
Grant.
REVOLUTION AND REFORM
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) A world-class polymath,
Benjamin Franklin was responsible for the invention of the
bifocal lens, and the lightning rod. As a prominent statesman and
scholar he was also a signatory on the American Constitution.
Franklin spent several years in St Andrews on academic
business, working with the Department of Chemistry. Whilst in
the town he was renowned for ying a kite as he took relaxing
walks up and down the West Sands, a place which he treasured
and enjoyed spending time when not in a laboratory. Due to his
contribution to St Andrean and indeed global academics, he was
awarded a Doctor of Laws in February 1759 and the Freedom
of the City in October of the same year. St Andrews also
remembers this historical gure with a plaque on the railings
outside of St Salvators Chapel, where the Procession begins.
George Dempster of Dunnichen (1732-1818) George Dempster
graduated here, became a member of the Faculty of Advocates,
and for 29 years served in the House of Commons. Honest
George was one of the most popular men in British public life
in the later 18th century; Scottish industry and agriculture owe
him a great debt to his reforming energy and vision. His eforts
as Provost of St Andrews are commemorated in the name
Dempster Terrace.
James Wilson (1742-1798) The St. Andrews lawyer who drafted
the constitution of the United States of America.
Jean Paul Marat (1743-1793) One of the blood-stained
revolutionaries of France, but so thin-skinned that he spent
most of his time in a bath (Mr. Shinwell please note). The
University sold him a medical degree on the strength of his
revolutionary research in amputation.
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CENTURY SCHOLARSHIP
Robert Fergusson (1750-1774) The forerunner of Burns, who
thought so highly of his poetry that he had erected a memorial
to him. University life left him with such a taste for dissipation
that he died in a madhouse at the age of twenty four.
Andrew Bell (1753-1832) The son of a wig maker, Andrew Bell
was born in a house on the site of the Citizen Ofce, St Andrews.
He matriculated in the United College in 1769 and graduated in
1773. After a spell in the tobacco trade in America, he returned
to Scotland and took orders in the Church of England. On the
advice of Dempster of Dunnichen he took passage to India
where at the Military Male Orphan Asylum he devised the
Madras or monitorial system of education, a system that was
taken up by many Church of England schools. A large part of
his considerable fortune was used to erect Madras College and
to endow both Madras College and Bell-Baxter School. He was
buried in Westminster Abbey.
Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847) An Anstruther man. A Professor
of Moral Philosophy in the University of St. Andrews who
became the rst Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland. A
great preacher and social worker.
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CENTURY STUDENTS
John Honey (c.1781-1814) The student who went to the rescue
of the Janet when she was wrecked in St. Andrews Bay.
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917) She matriculated at St
Andrews in 1862, the rst women to do so at any of the old and
respectable Universities. However, this was speedily declared
void by some reactionary members of staf who decided that,
because it was not specially permitted for women to attend the
University, her matriculation was invalid and illegal. She was later
refused admission to exams by British Colleges of Surgeons and
Physicians, and so took her M.D. at Paris in 1870. Becoming
the rst women to qualify as a medical practitioner in Britain,
she founded the London Medical School for Women in 1883
and remained there as Director until 1903. She also founded
a hospital for women in Paddington, London. She was the rst
woman to be elected Mayor of an English town Aldeburgh
in 1908.
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Andrew Lang (1844-1912) Lang studied at St Andrews, in the
old St Leonards Hall, from 1861 to 1863, and published the St
Leonards Magazine, whose entire contents he wrote himself.
He was the rst Giford Lecturer and the author of a charming
history of the Town and Gown. He moved to Oxford where he
wrote Almae Matres in the longing for the Little City grey
and sere, which now holds his dust. His main interest was in
anthropology, but he also produced translations of Homer,
collections of poetry, essays, fairy tales and writings on physical
research.
Robert Fuller Murray (1863-1894) The student poet of The
Scarlet Gown, whose songs will preserve for all posterity the
unique spirit of student life in St. Andrews.
BENEFACTORS OF THE UNIVERSITY
Mary Anne Baxter of Balgavies (1801-1884) Miss Baxter was
the principal founder of the University College, Dundee in 1881.
Her generosity brought to fruition the Dundee Movement,
the feeling that felt that Dundee should not be left out of the
spread of Higher Education in Britain. In 1953, the College was
reconstituted as Queens College and nally, in 1967, it became
the University of Dundee in its own right.
Alexander Berry (1781-1873) Born on St Andrews Day, 1781 in
Cupar, he arrived at St Andrews aged fteen, reading classics
and logic. He then moved to Edinburgh to study medicine,
qualifying in 1801. Turing to commerce he led an adventurous
life. After experiencing major setbacks and great successes he
eventually founded the Coolangatta estate in Australia. Berry
may be the most generous benefactor in the history of the
University. His bequest was in the region of 100,000 which
today would equate to around ve and a half million pounds,
and helped create the Berry Chair of English Literature. The
money arrived at a time when the Universitys fortunes were at
a very low ebb, and changed the outlook and prospects of the
University greatly.
John Patrick Crichton-Sturat , Third Marquess of Bute (1847-
1900) Having been made Mayor of Cardif in 1891, he was
elected Rector of the University the year after. Perhaps
compelled by a desire to distance himself as much as possible
from Wales, he vigorously went about reforming the Rectorship
of the University, restoring its powers to their greatest heights
since the Middle Ages. He hoped to make St. Andrews a
complete University by introducing law, medicine, arts and
theology. The medical building in the University is named after
him, most likely due to the rather large sums of money he
donated for its construction.
Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) The son of a Dunfermline weaver,
Andrew Carnegie emigrated with his parents to the USA at the
age of 12. When he retired in 1901, he had become the most
prosperous steel manufacturer in the world, with a fortune
hardly dented by his vast gifts to charity. In his retirement
he set about the creation of twelve millionaire foundations to
support and extend his charitable interests in the USA, Britain
and the Commonwealth. The endowments amounted in total
to three hundred million dollars equivalent to about three
billion dollars in todays value. His main interests in Britain
were the United Kingdom Trust and the Carnegie Trust for the
Universities of Scotland. In 1900 he wrote his book entitled
The Gospel of Wealth in which he wrote that he had decided
to cease to struggle for more wealth and to take up the
more serious and difcult task of wise distribution. Many have
beneted from his generosity.
ACADEMIA AND RESEARCH
Sir David Brewster (1781-1868) He was the Principal of the
United College (1838-1859), and was also Rector whilst at St
Andrews. His main eld of research was the optics of crystals
and the design of optical instruments. Indeed, he is chiey
remembered today for his invention of the kaleidoscope. The
University Physics department still owns a microscope that he
designed and has built a giant kaleidoscope. Within the physics
world he is best known for Brewsters Angle. This is now central
to the design of lasers, and modern students in photonics have
scarcely improved on the data discovered by Sir David so many
years ago. Today, St Andrews University proudly boasts a world
leading optics research centre in continuation of Brewsters
ideas. In 1831 he and some others of like mind, formed the
British Association for the Advancement of Science to remedy
the depressed state of British science. He has the distinction
of being awarded all three principal medals of the Royal Society
for his optical researches, an achievement not repeated since.
Professor John Burnet (1863-1928) Born in Edinburgh in 1863,
John Burnet was educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh
University and Balliol College Oxford. He gained a fellowship at
Merton and taught for a short while at Harrow, before being
appointed Professor of Greek at St Andrews in 1892. He
remained professor until 1926 and during this time published
many books, including a complete edition of Plato, which today
is still recognised as standard text. In 1927 Professor Burnet
received an honorary LL.D from St Andrews. In the Procession
he wears the gown of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, an ofce
in which he served two separate terms.
Sir Darcy Wentworth Thompson (1860-1948) Darcy Thompson
was born in Edinburgh and was educated at Trinity College
Cambridge. In 1884, at the age of 24, with The Fertilisation
of Flowers already published, and another book in the press,
he was appointed to the chair of Biology at University College,
Dundee. He held the position until 1917 when he became
professor of Natural History at St Andrews. At the time of his
death, he had held these chairs for sixty-four years. He was the
most genial of men, a majestic gure with his long beard, and
was a well known sight in St Andrews for many years.
Sir James Colquhoun Irvine (1877-1952) Hailed by his
contemporaries at the University as Little less than its second
founder, Irvine held the ofce of Principal here for 32 years,
from 1920 until his death. During his his tenure, Parliament
Hall, the University Library and St. Leonards Chapel were all
restored. He revived the residential character of St Andrews
with the building of St Salvators, and he encouraged the revival
of the Kate Kennedy procession in 1926.
FAMOUS GOLFERS
Allan Robertson (1815-1859) Acknowledged as one of the rst
professional golfers in the town, if not in Scotland. Allan was
nationally acclaimed as The Championship Golfer in the
1840s and 50s, when he was never beaten. Robertson was the
rst man to break eighty on the Old Course in 1858, a colossal
achievement at the time. In 1860 the members of the Prestwick
Golf Club threw out a challenge to see who could take up his
mantle as champion - and the Open Championship was born.
Tom Morris (1821 - 1908) and David Daw Anderson (1821-
1901) Playing at the above-mentioned Open Championship
was Old Tom Morris, and lost out to Willie Park by one stroke.
He became champion in 1861 and 1862 and again on two
subsequent occasions, but he was eventually surpassed by his
son Tom. Greenkeeper at St Andrews from 1863 to 1903,
Morris kept the links in the premier position among British golf
courses. It was said of him, Never could there be met with a
more perfect specimen of what is called Natures Gentlemen.
He is accompanied by his trusty caddie David Daw Anderson.
Daw carries seven clubs that were used in the eighteen forties
and fties a play club, long spoon, short spoon, bafe, cleek,
rutting iron and putter.
Tom Morris Jr. (1851-1875) Were it not for his untimely death
on Christmas day in 1875 aged twenty four, young Tom would
surely have become the record Open winner of all time, having
won four Opens in a row. On his third consecutive win in
1870 he won by twelve shots. Father and son were winner and
runner-up in 1869. His sad demise is one of the most dramatic
stories in golf. After one year of marriage his wife died along
with his still born son. Tommys grief was insurmountable and
within three months he too was dead. Late on in life old Tom
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Morris said, People say Tommy died of a broken heart, but if
that was true, I wouldnt be here either.
Robert Tyre Jones, Jr. (1902-1972) Born in Atlanta in 1902,
the son of a lawyer, Bobby Jones rst wielded a golf club when
he was six years old as he followed his parents around a local
course. He was too shy to take lessons, but a natural mimic, so
he copied the lazy swing of the club professional, an immigrant
Scot of much wisdom, but few words. Soon Bobby was playing
as well as the best. He was the rst player ever to win the
British and U.S. Open in the same year. In 1958 the freedom of
St Andrews was bestowed upon him, only the second American
to receive such honor; the rst being Benjamin Franklin.
PROMINENT CITIZENS
Sir Hugh Lyon Playfair (1786-1861) He was, for a short time
a student at St Andrews University, where his father was
Principal. He had a successful and distinguished career serving
as an artillery ofcer in the Army of the East India Company.
On leave he visited St Helena where he met Napoleon. In 1834
he retired from active service and returned to St Andrews.
As Chief Magistrate, and later as Provost, he expended great
energy reversing the trend of decay in the town, and the town
became an attractive holiday resort. Playfair Terrace is named
after him in recognition of his work.
Joan Clark (c. 1850-1927) Joan was a familiar gure in St
Andrews, spending her entire life in the town as a part of the
local shing community. Based in her tiny cottage on South
Castle St, an area of town then widely known as the Ladyhead,
Joan worked hard six days a week not only
repairing lines, nets and creels for the shing boats of the
harbour but also preparing and selling the fresh catch to the old
towns housewives, seldom without her wooden hand-cart and
never without her distinctive sherwomans
garb, the traditional outt she favoured until the end of her
days. Known for her ready wit and cosy home, Joan married
Henry Clark and had one son, also Henry, who became a golf
club maker.
Dr John Adamson (1808-1870) Dr John Adamson was Medical
Ofcer of St Andrews in 1848 the year the plague struck the
town. The plague lasted a year and claimed the lives of some
400 people; Adamson was awarded a token payment of 21
for his night and day services to the town during the period.
In his lifetime, he was responsible for founding the Cottage
Hospital, whilst pioneering the use of photography, taking what
was probably the rst camera portrait in Britain a study of
his wife in front of Queen Marys House. Ironically, Adamson
died in 1870 from blood poisoning caused by a scratch while
attending a patient when he was on holiday in the Highlands.
Dame Louisa Lumsden (1840-1935) After attending private
schools in London and Brussels, Louisa Innes Lumsden continued
her education at Girton College, Cambridge. There she passed
with honours in the lassical Tripos in 1873. She stayed at Girton
for a further two years as a classics tutor. Subsequently, she
spent a year as classics mistress at Cheltenham Ladies College
before being invited to become the rst headmistress of St
Leonards School, a post that she took when the new school
opened in the autumn of 1877 at the foot of Queens Gardens.
It was not until 1895 that she was invited to become the warden
of University Hall, a residence created for female students.
The reason for this was that, as warden, Miss Lumsden wanted
jurisdiction over female students resident in town. In 1911
she was awarded an LL.D by the University and a national
honour was bestowed upon her when she was created Dame
Commander of the British Empire in 1925 in recognition of her
services to education. It is certainly tting that the extension to
University Hall should be named Lumsden Wing in honour of
the residences rst warden.
Alexander Paterson (1907-1989) When A.B. Paterson died in
1989, the Courier and the Citizen wrote: the end of an era
in the annals of the town, for he was without doubt, the St
Andrews citizen of the twentieth century. As a journalist for
60 years, he never considered it a creative art, nor even just
a form of gainful employment, but as a mission a service to
the community. He was the founder of the Byre Theatre in
1933 and ran it single-handedly. He was awarded the Order of
the British Empire in 1958 for his services to the theatre. In
1971, the University presented an honorary MA to him. There
was hardly an aspect of community life in which Paterson had
not been actively involved. He was even called upon by the
Kate Kennedy Club, on the revival of the Procession in 1926,
to make-up Kate and the other characters in the pageant for
many years a duty for which he was recognised when he was
presented with honorary Life Membership of the Club in 1958.
LORDS RECTOR OF THE UNIVERSITY
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) Born in Pentonville, London, he
was a precocious child learning the Greek alphabet at the age
of 3. He was educated at home and by the age of twelve had
become accomplished in algebra, Latin, Greek and history. At
the age of 21 he sufered a nervous breakdown from which he
never fully recovered. Renowned as a liberal philosopher he was
an MP from 1865 to 1868 and a well regarded journalist. He
was installed as Rector in 1865, giving the longest Rectorial
Address- nearly three hours. Often regarded as an arrogant
and shy man he refused to walk through the Pends for fear they
might collapse; he is regularly thought of as having ideas ahead
of his time, such as Irish home rule and votes for women. He
died in 1873 and is buried in Avignon.
Sir James Matthew Barrie (Bart.) (1860-1937) Son of a humble
weaver in Kirriemuir, the ninth of ten children, he began writing
in 1885 as a freelance journalist. By 1904 he had risen to a
position of great acclaim having written Peter Pan as a play.
He was elected Rector in 1919 in the rst contested election
since the installation of the Marquess of Bute in 1892. On the
3rd ofMay1922,the anniversary of the murder of Archbishop
Sharp, Barrie gave his seminal rectorial address, Courage. It
was this speech that indirectly led to the re-establishment of
the annual Procession and the Kate Kennedy Club. Listening
to Barries speech, Donald Kennedy (a descendant of Bishop
James Kennedy), with the help of James Doak who read the
speech after its publication, approached Principal Sir James
Irvine with the idea of re-forming the Procession, in the
manner that Barrie had suggested. It is this format in which the
Procession still survives to this day. In this way, the Procession
that took place in 1926 paid honour to St Andrews rather than
discrediting it as it had done in the 1880s.
Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (1861 - 1928)
Earl Haig was born a patriotic Scot, and a member of a Fife
family. He spent his early days in the St Andrews area; before
going on to Clifton, and then Oxford. He then joined the 7th
Hussars in 1885, and was made Commander in Chief of the
British Army in France in 1915 leading the army in some of the
bloodiest battles of the First World War. He achieved victory,
but his generalship was much criticised for its loss of life. His
rst honour from the University came in 1916 when elected
Rector, although he did not come to St Andrews to be installed
until 1919. In 1921, Haig was asked to ll the vacant post of
Chancellor, his reply was concise - Ill accept anything that will
take me back to St Andrews. He was installed on the same day
as J.M. Barrie was installed as Rector, due to his characteristic
desire to limit unnecessary nancial expense. He was the 30th
Chancellor of the University; in the Procession he wears a Field
Marshalls Uniform, with a replica of his Chancellors robe.
Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) Born near Oslo, Norway, Nansen
entered the University of Oslo in 1881 reading zoology. His
athletic ability, scientic interest and yearning for adventure
resulted in him leading a polar expedition in 1895, getting
closer to the North Pole than anyone previously. The resulting
prominence within society allowed him to urge Norway in
1905 to seek independence from Sweden. After this success
he became his countrys Minister to Great Britain until 1908.
He was awarded a Nobel Prize for his work with the League
of Nations on behalf of Greek refugees, the winnings of which
he devoted to their relief. Nansen became Rector in 1926
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where he continued his principle qualities of spirit of adventure,
courage and self-reliance.
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) Rudyard Kipling, the
Nobel Prize winning author of The Jungle Book, Kim and Stalky
and Co. was elected Rector in 1922. He started his career in
India as assistant editor of the Civil and MilitaryGazette. It was
on the sub continent that he set many of his tales, be they close
observations of day-to-day military life, or the enchanting
childrens tales that are still appreciated today. In 1916, Robert
Bridges described him as the greatest living genius that we
have. A popular writer, exposed to blazes of publicity when he
returned to Britain, it could be said that Kipling was the rst of
the media rectors who are now synonymous with St Andrews.
Frank Muir (1920-1998) Frank Muir was elected Rector in
November 1976. During his time as Rector, he gave generously
to the University. His gifts included a humorous essay prize,
still awarded today, on which the subject must be an aspect
of University life. In addition he set up a Rectors fund to aid
students through nancial hardship and also to promote student
welfare. He also provided a gown for his Assessor on Court.
He received an LLD from the University in 1978, one of the
rare occasions when this has been conferred on a Rector whilst
still in ofce. Undoubtedly this was given for his services to the
University and the students, to whom he made himself available
in an unprecedented way. A particularly intelligent man who,
by sheer ill-fortune of bad timing, had no qualications to his
name, he relished the opportunity to be associated with St
Andrews. When reporting on his address, the then University
newspaper Aien dubbed him the hardest working Rector in St
Andrews history a justied title. In the Procession he wears
a pink bow tie donated by his wife following his death.
John Marwood Otto Cleese (1939 - ) John Cleese was one of
the nest Rectors of recent times. He was educated at Clifton
College, and went on to Downing College, Cambridge. He
started to tell jokes professionally in 1963- best known for his
part in the ground breaking Monty Pythons Flying Circus. It
is testament to his genius that three decades on from the rst
release, it is still enjoyed in many countries around the globe.
He was elected Rector in 1970- one of the youngest Rectors in
the history of the University- and his rectorial address was on
the subject of On Cowardice an interesting reversal on J.M.
Barries famous Courage address. Cleese was the rst Rector
to appoint a student to the position of Rectors Assessor a
move that nally let undergraduates to have some power on
Court. It is primarily for this reason that he is honoured in the
Procession. In the Procession he is dressed as the man from the
Ministry of Silly Walks.
IN MEMORIAM
Joseph Alistair Duthie (1917-1941) Joe as he was known to all
at St Andrews from the Principal to Marie the chipper was
born in Dumfries and attended Inverness Academy, where he
gained numerous honours in both sporting and academic life.
He graduated in 1939 with rst class honours in Classics. Joe
joined the Queens Own Cameron Highlanders in 1940. He
wears the uniform of second lieutenant of this regiment. Sadly
he was one of the rst men from St Andrews to be killed in
the Second World War on the 4th December 1941, at the
Bir El Gubi. And so Joseph Duthie has been included in the
Procession as a tribute to the many St Andrews students who
lost their lives in the Second World War.
THE EQUIPAGE OF THE LADY KATHARINE
Kates Attendants The open 19th Century landau in which the
Lady Katharine appears is announced by the military bugle of
Kates Herald. This gure wears a tabard on which the heraldic
arms of the Kennedy family are embroidered; the ag on his
bugle shows the same motif. This is followed by the shield bearer
of her uncle, Bishop James Kennedy, displaying the Kennedy
arms three black crosslets tched and a red chevron, all
within a red tressure ory and counter ory, on a silver ground.
Kates footman, and the page in blue and white livery, ride on
the coach with her. Eight shields of the town and University
are carried beside the carriage by bejant standard bearers. A
bejant, from the French bec-jeune yearling bird, is a rst year
male student.
The Six Shields of the University - The Shields represented
are St Johns College a red eagle displayed with the motto
In Principio within an orgle of red roses all on a silver ground;
St Salvators College a gold orb on a red ground; St Marys
College Pale; dexter the arms of the Beatons, sinster of
Archbishop Hamilton with a centrally open book symbolising
learning and a silver Fleurs-de-lys on a purple ground in the
colour of Divinity; St Leonards College chevronny; black and
red rose, with lions in support on silver, over which the gure
of St Leonard; The United College per pale; dexter the arms
of St Salvators sinster those of St Leonards; Madras College
three silver bells and a chevron on a blue ground; University
of Dundee a gold crown on a red chief surmounts per saltire
blue and silver; Royal Burgh of St Andrews per pale; dexter
St Andrews as a martyr, sinister oak tree and gold nuts and a
grey boar.
Kates Jester - As for this funny fellow, in his red, yellow and
black fools motley, who knows where he may be? Hes loaded
with sweeties, so if you can nd him, tell him a joke...
Bishop James Kennedy (c.1408-1465) Kennedy studied at St
Andrews until 1430 when royal displeasure forced him to leave
and continue he studies at Louvain. When the political situation
had improved, Kennedy returned to St Andrews and became
Bishop in 1440. As Bishop-Chancellor of the University he
showed himself to be an able and shrewd administrator. In
1450, to strengthen St Andrews against the pull of its ancient
academic rival, the University of Paris, Kennedy founded St
Salvators College as a focus of University life. A scion of the
royal house and described as the most distinguished Scotsman
of his age, Kennedy enjoyed great prestige in national and
church afairs, and was a member of the Kings Council
(efectively the Supreme Court of Law). In legend the uncle
of Lady Katharine, Bishop Kennedy is buried in his College
Chapel.
The Lady Katharine Kennedy - Katharine is the central gure
of the Procession; yet we know very little about her history,
and her connection with St Andrews. She was the daughter of
Bishop Kennedys brother Gilbert, the 1st Lord Kennedy, and
his wife Katharine. There is no documentary evidence that she
ever came to St Andrews; but the bell of St Salvators College,
cast in Paris for Bishop Kennedy, bears the inscription: That
holy man, James Kennedy, Bishop of St Andrews, and founder
of the College of the Holy Saviour, had me cast in the year
1460, giving me the name Katharine. Kates legend, however,
has prevailed and the spring Procession has borne her name for
centuries. So we ask you to join us to celebrate the new life of
spring and the Lady Katharine - ever young in spirit.
I was a maid here ere you were man or boy;
I shall be maid when who no more shall be;
I shall not perish - nay, I shall enjoy
While years exist; I am Kate Kennedy.
THE LADY KATHARINE KENNEDY
is played by the most promising bejant of the nine recently in-
vited to join The Kate Kennedy Club. Until the Procession her
identity is kept secret even from most members of the Club
and Kate Kennedy Trust. Her shieldbearers are played by the
other eight.
NEW BEJANTS:
Cyrus Danesh
Maurice (Chaaba) Jangulo
William Kesley
MacGregor McGehee
Ludovic Meaby
Vincent Schott
Adam Shaw
Alasdair Todd
Julian Valladares
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One of the three main aims of The Kate Kennedy Club is to sup-
port local charities. No doubt this aim is held dear to the Club
because of what charity has meant to the history of St Andrews.
The town has inspired many a benevolent and altruistic character,
in the mould of the eponymous saint himself, and many may be
seen today, including Queen Margaret, George Wishart, James
Graham, rst Marquess of Montrose, Thomas Chalmers, Andrew
Bell, Elizabeth Garret Anderson and Dr. John Adamson, to name
but a few. Dr. Adamson, St Andrews Medical Ofcer and a tire-
less worker for its public health, founded the Cottage Hospital at
Greenhill Villa on Abbotsford Place just around the corner from
my own at! in the late 1860s along with a Professor Oswald
Home Bell; this hospital was later to move to Abbey Walk, where
it would remain for over a century until replaced by the current
Largo Road facility.
The proceeds from the rst reinstated Procession in 1926 went
towards the Cottage Hospital by this time, of course, Dr. Ad-
amson was long gone, his house at 127 South St becoming, in
1907, the towns main Post Ofce. In 2012 the building, once
stufed with calotypes, ampoules and half-nished museum ex-
hibits, was again converted, this time swapping letters and parcels
for the more sophisticated fare of the eatery which still bears the
good doctors name. Perhaps Adamson would have found it rather
amusing that his most readily recognisable legacy today would be
a restaurant.
While the now-similarly-vanished Cottage Hospital was the rst
of the Processions beneciaries, this year, nearly nine decades
on, the Procession is supporting two local childrens charities,
one of which also resides on South Street. The charitable aims of
The Kate Kennedy Club, unlike homes or hospitals, never really
change. The echoes of tradition remain the same, as each year we
choose to donate to local charities that are especially pertinent in
their needs. Our chosen charities have been particularly afected
by the past years council funding cuts in Fife, with the threat of
a further reduction in charitable donations in the near future. We
have also recently donated to miscellaneous local causes in the
town which we believe align with the other aims of the Club: up-
holding traditions and improving town and gown relations.
The Charities
GEORGI NA CHURCH - CHARI TI ES CONVENOR
Home-Start: Home-Start was set up to help struggling families
through practical assistance, support groups and fully trained
volunteers that visit homes on a weekly basis, all with the inten-
tion of helping to prevent family breakdown and crisis. It is often
surprising for students to perceive the poverty that exists in Fife;
not your archetypal third world poverty, but rather a Western
gamut of issues such as family breakdown, loneliness and parental
drug abuse. Members of the Club volunteered at various Home-
Start support group sessions throughout the term in Cupar and
St Andrews. In this way Club members had the chance to meet
some of the families and children, becoming closer to the heart
of the charity that we are supporting. In October 2013 we held
the Charity Opening Ball on Lower College Lawn, hosting over
a thousand students to mark the beginning of the academic year
and to raise money for Home-Start. The Kate Kennedy Club also
performed a Charity Pantomime in February that raised money
for the same cause. We also greatly enjoyed performing a min-
iature Panto at the Home-Start Christmas Party at the Cosmos
Centre in December! Finally, all proceeds from this years edition
of the College Echoes will be given to Home-Start.
Children 1st: Children 1st (East Neuk) works with young people,
their families, local communities and other organisations to im-
prove the lives of vulnerable children and young people in Scot-
land. The charity provides services including ParentLine Scot-
land, a national helpline; assistance in personal recovery from
abuse and trauma; and sending advocates to attend conferences
or hearings of those identied as being at risk, in order to ensure
that children and teenagers are supported in court and can dis-
cuss their future. This year around two thousand students will be
attending The Kate Kennedy Club Charity May Ball, the largest
student ball in Scotland, to mark the end of the academic year
whilst raising thousands of pounds for Children 1st. Furthermore,
we shall be engaging more closely with the charity through our
Kate Kennedy Club Golf Day, inviting a group of children from
the East Neuk group for a day out in St Andrews with some KK
members. This will include putting some golf balls on St Andrews
Old Course, and a chance to try on some of the costumes of the
famous golfers in the Procession names such as Allan Robert-
son, Bobby Jones, Tom Morris and Tom Morris Jr.
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Statue of Bishop Henry Wardlaw: In 2013, The Kate Kennedy
Club also made a signicant one-of donation towards the cre-
ation of a new statue of Bishop Henry Wardlaw the founder of
the University of St Andrews (died 1440). The statue, sculpted
by David Annand in a likeness based upon the bishops tomb ef-
gy, was unveiled by Chancellor Sir Menzies Campbell in the
grounds of St Marys College, on the approximate site of Ward-
laws rst pedagogy, on Saturday June 29, 2013. The Club thus
had a small part to play in the commemoration of this rightfully
celebrated gure the dynamically rendered Wardlaw almost
seems to proclaim in triumph the words inscribed on his pedes-
tal: Founder of this Place.
This year, the Clubs Christmas Pantomime, Greece, The Musical,
took place in the Buchanan Lecture Theatre on the slightly incon-
gruous date of February 6th. Having taken a rather painful leg-
breaking fall in the role of John Cleese after stepping on the initials
of Patrick Hamilton within mere minutes of the start of last years
Procession (yes, really), I decided that further action of any kind
that year was to be entirely avoided lest the fates struck again.
This, accompanied by a booking mishap, led to the Pantomimes
being postponed to February, ghting for its place amongst hard-
ened Candlemas term regulars such as May Ball, the Procession
and, of course, Gown Day.
Fortunately this did not stop the Club from treating the event
with the gravity aforded to any other, and they met the consider-
able challenge of rehearsing and putting on the show in the one
week available to us with unrivalled enthusiasm and determination.
This was evident from the rst day back after the Christmas break,
when ten of us headed to East Sands in the freezing rain dressed
in togas and armed with a video camera to lm the all-important
promotional video. I encourage you to search YouTube should you
wish to see the very real distress that was so delicately acted upon,
and the bemused faces of dog walkers that we could not quite
manage to edit out.
The Buchanan Lecture Theatre is a fantastic venue. Never before
have the theatrically lowly members of The Kate Kennedy Club
THE KATE KENNEDY CLUB PANTOMI ME 2014:
GREECE, THE MUSI CAL
been privy to such a professional setup. I am incredibly grateful to
Ed Fry and Mark Jones who knew how to work all the sound and
lighting since, without them, I fear the stage would have been the
only thing we could have relied upon to be a functioning entity.
So, armed with wireless microphones and our very own dressing
room, we sought to put on the entirely original Greece, The Musi-
cal: a story of heroism, time and heroism, penned by yours truly, in
which three Greek heroes are sent back in time by epicene epicist
Homer to amend their myths, save their friends and become part-
gods, in the process helping Homer to write the greatest story of
all one of companionship and compassion. The Live Kennedys,
our very own Club band, this year featured alongside the usual
guitar, keys, drums and bass the exciting new addition of a cello,
which really brought out the pathos of the piece.
Greece, The Musical was a great success. We managed to virtually
sell out the large-capacity venue, and I am delighted to say that
the night generated a healthy prot that formed the nucleus of
a signicant donation to Home-Start East Fife. When compared
with earlier Club Pantomimes, it is encouraging to see how much
the event has grown, as each year the production becomes more
and more ambitious. I look forward to the Club sustaining this ef-
fort when (if) I graduate, so that it may continue to develop and
once again become as established an event as some of those that
are integral to the Clubs workings. My profuse thanks go to Mark
Jones, Henry Baylis and Ted Haxby, who took on the main roles;
Frazer Hadeld, for musically directing once again; Ed Fry, whose
eforts as a producer were unmatched; and to all those who came
along to watch and in doing so helped to raise money for a good
cause.
For those of you who missed out and are interested in seeing the
nished product, or who simply want to relive the magic of our
Attic antics, the Club is selling DVDs of the performance for 5
to raise further money for Home-Start East Fife. If you would like
to purchase one, please email cws@st-andrews.ac.uk.
- Christy White-Spunner, Writer + Director of the Club Pantomime
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The Restoration of Archbishop
James Sharps Carriage
GUSTAF HERSLOW THE KEEPER OF THE COACHES
This year has seen the refurbishment of Archbishop James
Sharps carriage, in which Sharp himself, along with his faugh-
ter, rides during the Procession when he isnt being butchered
by Covenanters, that is. At the beginning of last year, The Kate
Kennedy Club had been looking with increasing desperation for
someone who could help us with the long-overdue restoration of
Sharps coach; it was not until September that we found, right
under our noses, Ian Grants farm-based workshop near Pitscot-
tie. In fact, that unholy spot at which Archbishop Sharp was
murdered in 1679, Magus Muir, is, curiously, not too far down
the road. The murder was an assassination led by David Hackston
of Rathillet, a forsworn of the Covenanters, who sought revenge
for Sharps betrayal of his erstwhile Presbyterian associates. The
historical proximity of Magus Muir and Mr. Grants workshop
was an added bonus for the Club in seeking Mr. Grants services,
if secondary to his evidently skilled workmanship.
Discussing the history of wheelwrights in the United Kingdom,
Mr. Grant described the steep decline in their unique eld.
Whilst previously as many as 30,000 were actively practising
their craft before the First World War, there are now less than
twenty wheelwrights, of whom Mr. Grant is the sole remaining in
all of Scotland. Thankfully, Mr. Grant accepted the request from
The Kate Kennedy Club to refurbish Sharps carriage and to have
it ready for use in time for this years Spring Procession. Ben-
eting from local expertise was not something the Club could
have imagined, and with Mr. Grants lifelong experience we were
extremely condent of a spectacular end result.
During what Mr. Grant called the most challenging task of the
refurbishment, the transportation of the carriage from St An-
drews to his workshop in October of last year, he challenged the
Clubs President, Francis Walters, to help him tie a knot strong
enough to support the weight of the carriage and to ensure that
it remained in a sturdy position during its journey to the work-
shop. Francis did not do the best of jobs, but luckily Mr. Grant
was there to show him how it was done. Four months later the
carriage will be returned to its coach-house home on North
Street, imbued with a new lease of life. The carriage has, until this
year, been unaltered from its original state in the rst reinstated
Procession of 1926, and it has been a labour of love ensuring its
refurbishment. Mr. Grant, who has worked in the wheelwright
business ever since he started as an apprentice at the age of six-
teen, estimated that the carriage is 170 years old.
The main work that has been undertaken in the refurbishment
of the carriage is the painting of the exterior in a striking and
more historically accurate colour combination. The lower part of
the bodywork is dark blue and the upper part burgundy. Sharps
arms, including a mitre and crosiers, have also been painted onto
both doors of the carriage. Moreover, not only did Mr. Grant
help us with the refurbishment of the carriage, but he also com-
pleted from scratch another addition to this years Procession,
in the form of Joan Clarks, the last shwife of the St Andrews
community, wheelbarrow!
In my role as Keeper of the Coaches, I am extremely proud
to have been part of the refurbishment of Archbishop James
Sharps carriage and the creation of Joan Clarks wheelbarrow.
With an appreciation of how truly unique the Procession is, and
having observed the admirable acts of selessness carried out by
such dedicated people of our community, I fully embrace the
opportunity to ensure this great tradition survives. It is also with
expert help, such as that of Mr. Grant, that the Procession will
continue to evolve and stand the test of time. It leaves me now
only to thank all of you, visitors, citizens of the town, and stu-
dents of the University, for coming out to celebrate with us.
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While the day of the Procession is one showered with joy and
sunshine (hopefully!), the lead up to the day is often not so
glamorous. When lling in applications for street closure, ling
risk assessment forms and organising yering rotas, the Pro-
cession couldnt seem much further away. However, the num-
ber of people willing to voluntarily put their time and efort into
this historic pageant is always a sure reminder of why this event
is at the very centre of our towns history. Rather than boring
you, therefore, with the ins and outs of council permissions, I
thought I might focus instead on one of the more rewarding
aspects of the lead up to the big day the community side of
the Processions build up.
While to some it may seem that the Procession is conned
to a single Saturday, in reality it extends far beyond the sec-
ond weekend of April and provides a vital and long-lasting link
between the town and University, joining them through the
mutual goal of keeping this historic spectacle alive. This joint
efort manifests itself in many forms throughout the year, and
I would be extremely hard pressed to outline it fully in this ar-
ticle. However, I hope to give you some small idea of how town
and gown work together.
Hoping to raise interest and enthusiasm for the Procession
among local children from an early age, each year several Club
members often those fresh-faced bejants! pay a visit to
local schools including Madras College, Canongate Primary
School and St Leonards School. It is quite the sight to behold
as key gures in the Universitys founding (Ogilvy, Wardlaw
and Pope Benedict XIII) parade through a school assembly and
outline their roles in character, of course! Or perhaps Robert
Fuller Murray reciting his Come Back to St Andrews; J. M.
Barrie his rectorial address on Courage; or Benjamin Franklin
the Declaration of Independence. No matter which characters
arrive in the assembly hall it is amazing to see how quickly they
capture the imagination of the children, who are often stunned
at just how much history calls St Andrews its home. I can only
hope that this might inspire them to go on to further engage
with that history and relish their time in this awe-inspiring
town. All this would not be possible without the kind help of the
respective representatives of the schools Mrs Linda Birtwistle,
Dr Jackson-Hutt and Mr Jones.
Similarly at the Cosmos Community Centre each year numer-
ous children get a chance to sit on Victoria, the Lady Katha-
rines carriage, as well as that of Archbishop Sharp. Just like
at the schools, at the same time they can meet and interact
with some of the characters of the Procession in full costume.
Again, I would like to extend my thanks to everyone at Cos-
mos who makes these visits possible, and to Mr Peter Adamson
and Douglas Miller who always support our community work by
publicising it in the local newspapers.
I hope that these two examples give some idea of how town and
gown work together in order to create a fantastic atmosphere
on the day of the Procession. These community projects act
as a real reminder of the fantastic link between the Univer-
sity and the town, a link which is perfectly encapsulated by the
Kate Kennedy Procession. While there are certainly ups and
downs when organising the event just like any other this
link makes it all worthwhile and is what makes the Procession
truly special.
BEFORE THE PROCESSI ON
TED HAXBY - VI CE-PRESI DENT OF THE KATE KENNEDY CLUB
Gaudeamus igitur,
iuvenes dum sumus!
(Therefore, let us rejoice,
while we are young!)
EDWARD BATTLE SOCI AL CONVENOR
T HE DAY OF T HE PROCES S I ON
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As a fourth year or, as we are ceremoniously known here, a Magis-
trand there is little else presently on my mind than the looming fact
of my imminent departure. Being the theme of my every thought,
it is therefore unlikely that any attempt to translate these greyish
penses onto the page will be coloured any diferently. In drawing
to a close, an events retrospective is most often sketched with snip-
pets of ill-remembered stories and woolly anecdotes. Its the reason
that quotes are such efective vessels of wisdom, the fates of which
are either a steady dissolution into clich or a fted and otherwise
irony-free persistence through the ages. This years Echoes seeks to
emphasise thematic integrity; the idea that without a central refrain,
lifes countless melodies simply descend into cacophony. So I tried
to think of whats characterised my time here but could think of
nothing. Friendship? Certainly; but clichd. Tradition? Perhaps, but
its been done before, if youll excuse the unintended pun. In fact I
nd the unltered nature of my memoirs somewhat consoling. So
Ive chosen to write a piece without a theme, about what it feels like
to be leaving the Club, the university, the town but without this
being my theme, and in the hope that an article be capable of merely
echoing a muddled sentiment instead of spelling it out. Call me post-
modern.
t may itself be a clich to draw on J. M. Barries famous rectorial ad-
dress On Courage for inspiration here, but only because it contains
so many timeless sayings that cant themselves fall foul of the accusa-
tion; all the more so because no other text so ttingly embodies the
Echoes of Tradition. Theres much to take from Barries words in pre-
paring our goodbyes. It starts with the one we all know: God gave us
memory so that we may have roses in December. When asked what
our own roses are, we most often remember times that were, quite
simply, the most fun. This year, the very rst yearbook committee
has asked us to do precisely this, and there are many stories to choose
from. Tough call, because its often only after something is over that
we can properly judge its signicance. This was Barries thought on
Courage to Have
Some Fun
CASEY L ARSEN
SECRETARY OF THE KATE KENNEDY CLUB
After playing Kate in 2011, I found myself bestowed with the
task of organising The Kate Kennedy Clubs 86th Procession.
Following a year of tinkering and preparation, I woke from a
restless nights sleep on 14th April 2012 with everything in place
for the days events everything apart from the weather. As
every Marshal will tell you, Springs temperamental weather
plays a pivotal role in the Procession and judges whether it shall
take place inside the Younger Hall (mercifully extremely rare) or
on the historical streets of our town, the latter being innitely
preferable. In the week leading up to 14th, I religiously followed
the Met Ofces ever-changing weather reports and now stared
bleary-eyed at a computer screen. The hopeful symbol of a sun
poking its head out from behind a dark cloud and accompanied
with a smattering of hail and rain greeted me excellent!
Needless to say, this is exactly what happened on the day, but
thankfully not to the extent that the Procession was shut away
inside something that miraculously has not happened since the
1990s. So, with the sun shining at 8am, I rallied the fresh-faced
and wide-eyed bejants of the Club to help push the carriages up
North Street and into St Salvators Quadrangle. Every year this
is where Kates carriage, Victoria, is adorned with dafodils that
the Marshal and new nine bejants pick for it the night before.
If I were to pick a favourite moment in the day of the Proces-
sion, it would have to be the decoration of Kates carriage. If you
are up on the morning of the Procession, I can only encourage
you to go to the Quad, take a seat on a bench in the sun, and
watch the fastidious preparation take place. An air of suspense
surrounds the empty Quad, the historic heart and almost the
oldest remaining part of our University. The rst years deco-
rate the carriage unaware of who will be chosen to ride in it as
the Lady Katharine Kennedy. With the carriages awaiting their
horses amongst the rare and beautiful backdrop of Jacobean and
Late Gothic architecture, this is an occasion in which the spirit
of the Lady Kate is truly manifest and fused with the town and
University of St Andrews.
Following the preparation of the carriages, the rst years were
sent of for lunch where it was to be announced which one of
them has been chosen to play Kate in the recently garlanded
Victoria. The quad simultaneously began to hum as the char-
acters from the Procession started to ood and swell within its
four sides in anticipation of the Lady Kates arrival. The found-
ing fathers of the University and town, golfers, academics, kings,
queens and war heroes emerged in costume and assembled in a
line behind the closed doors of St Salvators. Just as the mur-
derers, horses, poets and clerics alike lined up ready to process
through the streets, the nal character was revealed to the
crowd the Lady Kate herself! The other eight bejants broke
from their tortoise formation of University shields to reveal Kate
as she promptly stepped into her carriage, surrounded by her eq-
uipage. With the Processions honourable character ready (and
his/her sex remaining questionable) we were nally ready to go.
The doors opened and the celebrations of our town began once
again!
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A very wise former Keeper of the Costumes once gave me some very
wise, if slightly specic advice for life, or rather life in a dark cupboard
apparently full of parts of costumes you dont need and eternally be-
reft of bits you desperately do. The general gist of this was Any idiot
can keep costumes safe for a year without losing anything, but you
should make sure that when you pass on the staf of ofce, you have
made a distinct and permanent diference. Whilst I cant imagine this
man ever uttering the words distinct and permanent, that was, at
least, the overriding idea.
As Spring tentatively approached St Andrews, I had failed utterly
in fullling this advice. It was task enough to get to grips with over
120 costumes, many of which, as Im sure you can see, are far from
minimalist or understated, and to try to put names and stories to the
colours and fabrics. It was a delight just to get into that little room
and try and keep this most tangible historical tradition alive. From the
bible of photographs of the costumes when they were rst made,
many of which featuring The Kate Kennedy Trusts own Col. Martin
Passmore, who is responsible for so many of the splendid costumes
you see before you today; from learning how to dress a Bishop (not
as easy as it may appear), to putting my rudimentary carpentry skills
to the test in the name of the Bruce and Archbishop Stewart, my
year as Keeper has been enlightening and rewarding. Quite why it is
perennially so difcult to locate the costume you are after no matter
how systematically you order them will always be a mystery to me,
however.
It was again Mr Mark Dennis who came to the rescue of the otherwise
quiet year of 2013-14 for the Costume Cupboard. Procession acio-
nados amongst you may have noticed that the somewhat threadbare
shields on the arms of Archbishop Alexander Stewart and King Rob-
ert the Bruce that have borne the Lions Rampant in previous years
have been replaced by two brand new models. My thanks must go to
Mr Ian Grant (of whom more information can be found in Mr Her-
slows article in this publication), Mr Ferguson of G.A. Ferguson on
South Street, and of course Mr Dennis for their help in producing
these splendid shields. It was whilst once again soliciting the help of
Mr Dennis and his encyclopaedic knowledge of heraldry (see New
Shields for the Kate Kennedy Procession, another superbly written
piece of prose by yours truly in last years College Echoes) in facing
the shields that he proposed the further changes you see today.
Mr Dennis approached The Kate Kennedy Club and Trust with the
idea of rejuvenating the costumes of the shields bearers to keep up
with the facelift their arms had received. The old costumes were in-
The Lions Rampant,
Where? and the Wardrobe
HENRY BAYLIS - KEEPER OF THE COSTUMES AND SHIELDS
the First World War: that only after a continent had been shaken to
its feet could it start to reect on its fall, and to ask what it is that they
meant in 1914 and afterwards. Commemorating traditions to whose
founding we were not privy, following in the footsteps of those weve
not met, meeting with people whose futures are all equally uncertain,
we similarly dont quite yet know what our time here means.
So we try to summarise our time here, and cant help but lapse into
clich. I might as well just say that the time has own by, or even as-
sert the corollary proposition that time really does y when youre
having fun. The universitys illustrious line of Rectors have certainty
been no strangers to fun. John Cleese could sure have a laugh, and
knowing that the best means of impugning a persons seriousness is to
question their sense of humour, encouraged students not to let your
degree get in the way of your education. While our classroom pre-
cepts might point the way out of town, only our experiences can es-
cort whatever untarnished innocence well drag kicking and scream-
ing into the real world.
Courage ordinarily presupposes an active initiative, but it can feel as
though graduating, though (hopefully) an inevitable process, is go-
ing to require a superhuman feat of the will. Over the course of four
years, it is just as easy to breed complacency as it is to form bonds
or build friendships. The comfort of our auld grey toun shields us
from the horizon that lies beyond it. Barrie was under no illusions
as to what students priorities were likely to be while locked in the
bubble. Another of his well-known sayings appealed to a prospect us
Magistrands are beginning to envisage ourselves, that of returning as
graduated students. Barrie asked, were an old student given an hour
in which to revisit the St. Andrews of his day, would he spend more
than half of it at lectures? He is more likely to be heard clattering up
bare stairs in search of old companions.
We must look to memories in calculating our future steps, in a likely
nostalgic but never sentimental spirit. For Barrie knew that as pro-
gressive beings, fun comes in many varieties and necessarily evolves
by our side. His address not only foreshadowed a second war but also
the many personal battles that graduates are always to face, and that
we are about to confront. He wrote of how the greatest glory that
has ever come to me was to be swallowed up in London, not know-
ing a soul, with no means of subsistence, and the fun of working till
the stars went out. Every student knows from carefully calibrated
experience that fun is a steadily crafted ritual, a relationship of equals
in which each must pull his own weight in order to gain the others
favour. In St Andrews Ive burnt the candle at both ends but found
that it often still gives of a lovely light. It might be a hard pill to swal-
low, but having fun is going to require some deal of courage from now
on. One might say that our task is to redene its parameters without
losing sight of the blueprint weve traced during our time here.
Our yearbook questionnaire asked each of us for a favourite quote.
Fishing for something suitably pretentious, I found some resonance
in Claude Levi-Strauss reection that events without any apparent
connection, and originating from incongruous periods and places
often crystallize into a sort of edice conceived by an architect. But
perhaps too abstract a quote, and better summon a clich to provide
some real meaning. For many of us its now possible to have exhaust-
ed one unique variety of fun, and we must humbly saunter forth to
become what we ought to be. The process wont be smooth, nor the
fun easy to come by, but given time and strength enough to pen a
few more chapters and armed with numerous apparently unrelated
anecdotes the broken stories that now spring to mind might later
merge into a narrative that all makes perfect sense. Something that
isnt clear isnt necessarily insignicant. Having forgotten when we did
it last, we should on one occasion clatter back up bare stairs and know
exactly what it meant, and perhaps even discern some meaningful (if
only because recurring) theme.
C O L L E G E E C H O E S 49 C O L L E G E E C H O E S 48
dabbled in mathematics, philosophy, theology, agriculture, and, most
intriguingly, inventing.
In terms of his discoveries in the numeric eld, Napiers inuence
is so widespread that every single person watching todays Proces-
sion will have been inuenced by his inventions. His most famous
discovery was logarithms, the process of multiplying a number by a
constant factor from the previous number (i.e. 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, etc.),
which opened up new areas of physics, such as astronomy, as well as
revolutionising calculations. It even served in the discovery of New-
tons theory of gravitation. Napier also discovered crucial factors in
trigonometry, and created a tool for multiplying and dividing num-
bers before the invention of the slide rule a tool rather morbidly
named Napiers Bones.
Mathematics, however, was a hobby rather than a primary concern:
as with most people during this period, religion and theology factored
heavily in the life of John Napier. When his leisure time was not taken
up with devising new methods of doing sums, his keen interest in the
Book of Revelation, one developed whilst a student, served to keep
him busy. He was also a strong anti-papist, and predicted the end of
the world to be either 1688 or 1700. (Like every other prediction so
far thankfully he was wrong.) An unrelentingly strong Protes-
tant, he famously urged King James VI to purge [your house, fam-
ily, and court] of all suspicion of Papists and Atheists and Newtrals
although his religious intolerance did not extend to trying to burn
anyone.
Due to his rather eccentric tastes of allegedly wandering around in his
pyjamas and nightcap with a cockerel covered in soot, and carrying
with him a small black spider in a box, Napier was suspected by many
to have been in league with the powers of darkness. Contemporary
rumour had it that he dabbled in alchemy and necromancy as well
as maths and theology, and that his scientic breakthroughs were
the results of a deal with the Devil it was, of course, more likely
that his habit of locking himself away in his study made him seem
rather strange in such a superstitious age, but even so, it adds another
layer of intrigue to our protagonist. He did, however, believe in magic
enough to tempt him to go in search of treasure supposed to lie in
Sir Robert Logans Fast Castle. He was, unfortunately, unsuccessful.
By far his most interesting trait, though, was his habit of inventing
weapons in his spare time. A document dated the 7th of June 1596
gives Napiers account of some of his secret inventions for warfare.
Probably as a result of the general fear that Philip of Spain would at-
tempt to invade Britain, Napier showed inspiration in a similar vein
to Leonardo: despite the fact that the Romans had thought to sur-
round themselves with shielding metal before the birth of Christ, it
took John Napiers brilliant scheming to transfer this into the rst
suggestion of a unied body to protect soldiers or, at least, a metal
chariot with small holes in, allowing those inside to move fast, and,
themselves protected, shoot freely at those around them. Slightly
more eccentric, though still the stuf of dreams for most children, he
also came up with the idea of mirrors used to burn enemies ships at
any distance, and a piece of artillery to destroy everything in a circular
radius. It would certainly be justiable to call him ahead of his time
he appears to the imagination as the sixteenth-century equivalent
of James Bonds Q.
As far as notable alumni go, I feel the marvellous Napier is distinctly
under-rated. He may not have founded the United States as Frank-
lin did, outwitted the academics of Italy like the Admirable Crichton,
or butchered French aristocrats in the manner of Jean-Paul Marat,
but I know who would provide the best entertainment at the dinner
table. Any man who suggests the use of burning mirrors in warfare
and pioneers the rst incarnation of tanks most denitely appeals to
me just as long as he doesnt start talking about algebra.
disputably ne, especially Bruces remarkable knitted mail coat, but
were showing their considerable age. This year marks the 700th
anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn, and so it seemed tting
to reward Scotlands favourite arachnophile and St Andrews Ca-
thedrals sole mounted member of the congregation for his eforts
there. However, it didnt seem fair to leave Archbishop Stewart in his
present state, and so he too was issued a new tin cassock to match
his robust crozier. So, the ne people of various battle re-enactment
societies were contacted and the marvellous mounted warrior-king
and -bishop that ride before you came into being.
I can take next to no credit for these reforms and must again point all
potential plaudits to Mr Dennis and the members of The Kate Ken-
nedy Trust. However, this does not take away from the fact that I
am hugely proud of the way that both are now represented in the
Procession. As, indeed, I am of all the characters who I have done
my best to respect by ensuring they are turned out as smartly and
accurately as possible.
Thanks must go, as they must from every Keeper, to Mrs Wendy
Quinault for her invaluable help with the costumes as a whole, espe-
cially with the Bruces renovated surcoat, and for her knowledgeable
advice. As mentioned, the work done on the Bruce and Stewart are in
great part due to the eforts of Mr Dennis, so yet more thanks must
be piled upon him. I hope you will agree that two of the Processions
most striking characters have been done justice this year and will con-
tinue to make an impact many years after I have graduated.
Having been given free rein to choose to write about any character
from the Procession I wished, it was distinctly odd that, as a con-
rmed Arts student whose mathematical ability is probably rivalled
by those still in short trousers, I found John Napier, the old St An-
drean student who went on to invent the logarithm and the decimal
point, the most intriguing character by far. John Napier of Merchis-
ton (the eighth Laird; the Marvellous Merchiston he was a man of
many names) was certainly one of the most notable alumni ever to
have gone through St Andrews even if it was without completing
his degree.
Born in 1550 to Sir Archibald Napier (who was the ripe old age of
sixteen at the time), John arrived at St Andrews in 1563 and took up
his studies at the College of St. Salvator. He stayed for a very short
period of time before leaving again probably to travel abroad, as was
the custom of the landed gentry at the time. On returning in 1571, he
The Marvellous Merchiston
AL ASDAI R TODD
C O L L E G E E C H O E S 50 C O L L E G E E C H O E S 51
TORCHLI GHT PROCESSI ON ON THE
PI ER I N HONOR OF JOHN HONEY
THE KATE KENNEDY CLUB 2013/14
Bejants:
Cyrus Danesh
Maurice Jangulo
Will Kesley
Macgregor McGehee
Ludo Meaby
Vincent Schott
Adam Shaw
Alasdair Todd
Julian Valladares
Semi-Bejants:
Mikkel Andreasen
Charlie Behan
Will Carlough
Ed Fry
Chris Kunkler
David Martin
Mikkel Skajem
Tommy Vermeir
David Winokurow
Tertians:
Henry Baylis
Arthur Cohen
Ollie Cutting
Ivan Damgov
Yousra Elbagir
Hendrik Geiger
Ted Haxby
Alex Heller
Mark Jones
Christy White-Spunner
Magistrands:
Edward Battle
James Calder-Smith
Georgina Church
Abhiroop Gupta
Gustaf Herslow
Casey Larsen
Jack Merriman
Jamie Perriam
Francis Walters
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