Stanley Harris Memorial Scholarship
(Pembroke College, Cambridge)
Not to be confused with our own Stanley Harris Awards!
Following Stanley Harris’s death in May 1926 families of Saint Ronan's set about raising funds to endow the 'Stanley Harris Memorial Scholarship'. In July 1928 a gift of stock to the value of £2,800 was made to Pembroke College to provide for an award of up to £100pa to be made to undergraduates with preference for Old Boys of Saint Ronan's School or of Westminster, or the sons of old boys of these schools, or of Pembroke College. These awards were given to undergraduates judged by a committee to be 'deserving and needy candidates of sound character', and not awarded as a result of examination.
An incomplete record of award winners to 1965 is as follows:
1929-32 R R Vassar-Smith (Lancing)
1932-35 P B Lucas (Stowe)
1936-39 R C W Dampier (Stowe) & J S Petley (Westminster)
1939-42 J P Bassett (Winchester)
1962-65 J A Corcoran (Westminster) & G K Toland (Winchester)
Due to changes in the national system of university grants in 1980 Pembroke moved from using the 'Harris Fund' for making specific scholarships to named individuals to using it as a more 'general' hardship fund. Details of this change were given to families in the January 1981 school magazine.
The 'Harris Fund' has grown greatly in value since it was initially established and the investment income is used principally in the Michaelmas term to fund a rent bursary scheme – in 2009/10 approx 63 Pembroke undergraduate students qualified for a rent bursary. Further use of the fund for the rent bursaries in Easter term and ad hoc hardship grants might also be paid from the Harris Fund to undergraduates during the course of the year.
Further details can be obtained from Pembroke College's website or from:
Dr Becky Coombs
College Registrar
Pembroke College,
Cambridge,
CB2 1RF
01223 338 112
B.Coombs@pem.cam.ac.uk
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