Gillies Scholarship

The Gillies Scholarship is a $3,000 award to assist a first year student enrolling in a BSc or BAdvSci(Hons) in the School of Chemical Sciences or Department of Physics at the University of Auckland. Mr. Thomas B Gillies, a judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, presented to the Council of the Auckland University College in 1884, the sum of £3,000 for the purpose of founding two science Scholarships, one to be called the Gillies Scholarship in memory of the late Mrs Gillies, the other to be called the Sinclair Scholarship, to assist students experiencing financial hardship. The Scholarship was founded for the encouragement of the study of Chemistry and Physics.