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Excellence and Opportunity

From its earliest days, St Paul’s College has awarded scholarships to both acknowledge excellence and open doors of opportunity. They recognise students who have achieved outstanding results, while also ensuring that financial background is never a barrier to joining Australia’s first university college.

For generations, these scholarships have changed lives—helping students pursue their studies at the University of Sydney while experiencing the unique traditions, friendships, and opportunities of College life.

Each year, a wide range of scholarships are offered. Some reward academic achievement; others provide vital support for those with promise and ambition. All of them reflect the values of St Paul’s: excellence, opportunity, and community.

Scholarships and selection criteria

We have a range of scholarships available for students who have a financial need and/or outstanding academic achievement:

    • are all-round achievers and/or make positive contributions to community,

    • have family incomes which present financial barriers for them,

    • choose particular fields of study such as medicine, law, maths or engineering,

    • grew up in rural or regional Australia,

    • identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander,

    • attended a government secondary school,

    • demonstrate academic excellence and/or outstanding ability.

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Abbott Scholarship

The Henry Abbott Scholarship was founded in October 1885 by Thomas Kingsmill (T.K.) Abbott in memory of his son, Henry William Abbott. Henry, a solicitor, died at Milson’s Point on 8 October 1878, aged only 26.

T.K. Abbott, who had served as Secretary of the General Post Office, Sydney, died in London on 6 May 1885, leaving a bequest of ₤1000 to establish a scholarship for a resident of St Paul’s College.

He was also the uncle of Sir Joseph Abbott (College Fellow 1891–1900) and The Rev’d Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (Undergraduate 1885–1887, Scholarship Recipient 1885–1887, College Fellow 1896–1902, Vice-Warden 1900–01).

The Abbott Scholarship was first awarded in 1889 to Cuthbert Blacket.

Criteria

The scholarship is awarded to a student coming from a government school in recognition of both academic potential and personal character.

Value

Up to 25% of College fees

This scholarship is funded through the St Paul’s College Foundation.

Albert Scholarship

Since 1926, the Albert family has given St Paul’s their time, support, guidance, counsel, vision, and loyalty—an impact impossible to fully measure.

The Albert Scholarship honours the generosity and legacy of Robert Albert AO RFD RD (1934–2024), a lifelong friend and benefactor of St Paul’s College. A distinguished businessman, community leader, and Old Pauline (1953 – 1956), Robert believed deeply in the value of education and the transformative experience of College life. His philanthropy has supported generations of students at St Paul’s, ensuring that excellence and opportunity continue to flourish within the Pauline community.

Criteria

The scholarship is awarded to students who demonstrate all round achievement. Candidates for these scholarships will have high level sporting, musical or other abilities, in addition to high academic merit, and financial need will be taken into consideration.

Value

25% – 75% of College fees

Amy Louise Hart Scholarship

The Amy Louise Hart Scholarship honours Amy Louise Hart (Matron, 1923–1961), whose devotion to St Paul’s shaped the lives of generations of Paulines. Remembered as much more than a Matron, she took a personal interest in every student and every detail of College life. For 35 years her loyalty and care were a defining presence, inspiring deep affection that carried across generations. The scholarship created in her memory continues her legacy of service and dedication to the Pauline community.

Criteria

The scholarship is awarded to the graduate student who attained the highest SAM at university in the preceding semester.

Value

$1,000

This scholarship is funded through the St Paul’s College Foundation.

 

Aspinall Scholarship

The Aspinall Scholarship was founded in 1864 by Mrs Sophia Ann Hall Aspinall (1810–1874) in memory of her husband, Edward Aspinall. She and her brother, William Hall Palmer, were among the original subscribers to St Paul’s College in the 1850s, and Mrs Aspinall later became the College’s most generous benefactor in its early years.

Alongside her enduring support for the College, she was devoted to children’s and women’s charities in Sydney, including the Destitute Children’s Asylum and the Female School of Industry, and contributed to the building of St Andrew’s Cathedral. Her annual gifts from 1865, and a fund established in 1872, created one of the College’s first enduring scholarships—a lasting legacy of her generosity and vision for education.

Criteria

The scholarship is awarded on academic merit to a student undertaking either an Economics or Commerce degree.

Value

Up to 25% of College fees.

This scholarship is funded through the St Paul’s College Foundation.

Augusta Priddle Scholarship

The Augusta Priddle Memorial Scholarship was founded in July 1885 by the Reverend Charles Frederick Durham Priddle, in memory of his wife, Jane Augusta Priddle (née Norton) (1828-1883).

Charles Priddle (1814–1897), a Fellow of the College from 1875 to 1897, had contributed ₤25 to the founding of the College. The Priddles were married on 25 February 1851 and, at the time of the scholarship’s establishment, he was Rector of St Luke’s, Liverpool.

Augusta’s father, James Norton, also subscribed ₤50 towards the founding of St Paul’s College, and her brother, James Norton, was a Fellow of the College (1869–1906).

Their two sons, Robert (1866–1950) and Alfred (1869–1940), both attended St Paul’s, and Robert later supplemented the scholarship by bequest.

Criteria

The Priddle Scholarship is awarded to children of clergy studying at St Paul’s College.

Value

Up to 75% of College fees.

 

This scholarship is funded through the St Paul’s College Foundation.

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