3-070-638 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Mr. Andrew Russell Forsyth, Senior Wrangler, 1881. Engraving from a photograph by Messrs. Brown, Barnes, and Bell. 'Andrew Russell Forsyth, Stuart Exhibitioner of Liverpool College, is Senior Wrangler and Smith's prizeman of this year...his scholastic and University career has been of extraordinary brilliancy...He was first in Mathematics in all England, and was offered a sizarship at St. John's College, Cambridge. In 1874 he was honourably mentioned by the Royal Geographical Society for Physical Geography, and in the same year he again entered for the Cambridge Local Examinations, and was bracketed first in all England; and was again first in Mathematics...In June, 1876, he obtained the Lawrence Scholarship, and at Midsummer, 1875, he was awarded the Stuart Exhibition...In April, 1877, Mr. Forsyth obtained an open foundation scholarship, value £100 per annum, for seven years, at Trinity College, Cambridge, and began residence in the following October. In the course of his University career, Mr. Forsyth obtained a first class in the Freshmen's examination of his college, 1878. In the second year's examination (1879) at Trinity, he again obtained a first class, which he also occupied in his third year's examination'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.