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31.03.2020 - 07:17 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Over 80 students have benefited from a “bizarre” Edinburgh University bursary scheme that helps people with two surnames.
Around £25,000 has been paid out from a fund that rewards those called Gillies or Carmichael.
The awards are part of a bequest left to the University forty five years ago, but the institution does not hold any founding documents or a constitution.
However, a minute of a University Court meeting in December 1974 contains details of the qualifying rules.
A bursary will first be
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