Snell exhibitioner
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The Snell Exhibition is an annual scholarship awarded to students of the University of Glasgow to allow them to undertake postgraduate study at Balliol College, Oxford. The award was founded by the bequest of Sir John Snell in a will made in 1677, although the original stipulation referred to the University of Oxford, rather than Balliol in particular. Snell died on 6 August 1679, but wrangling over the will meant that it was nearly twenty years before the first scholarships were awarded; the first four Snell Exhibitioners were admitted to Balliol in mid-1699.
Snell had been a Royalist in the Civil War, and was later secretary to the Duke of Monmouth and had the management of his Scottish estates. He intended the bequest to be used to educate Scottish clergymen for the then-established Scottish Episcopal Church. By Adam Smith's day, the bequest was mostly regarded as an educational charity, though its exact status was not settled until later. "By the will of John Snell his exhibitors were under bond to take Anglican orders and return to Scotland, but the penalty was not enforced in the case of Adam Smith and numerous others." (Fay, quoting the Times obituary of Smith.)
[edit] Notable Exhibitioners
Famous Snell Exhibitioners include:
- Adam Smith
- Hely Hutchinson Almond
- James Stirling (mathematician)
- Archibald Campbell Tait
- John Douglas
- Professor Sir Neil MacCormick (legal theorist)
- Captain Robert Blair VC
- Sir William Hamilton
- James Williams Mylne
- Andrew Lang
- James Gordon Howie
- John Nicol
- Professor Richard Susskind Lawyer and Writer
- Robert Browning (Byzantinist)
[edit] External links
- The Snell Foundation information from Balliol College
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