James Stewart Bequest (HDR)

  • Category Foundation
  • Location Ballarat
  • Annual value $3,500
  • Open date 08/01/2024
  • Close date 01/03/2024
  • Study sector Higher education
  • Study level Higher Degree by Research
  • Student type Domestic
  • Student status Continuing
  • Additional eligibility criteria
    • Undertaking research in the history of Ballarat, Eureka, colonial medicine, the Irish in Australia, philanthropy or geology
  • Scholarships available 1

How to apply

Applications open 8 January, 2024.

You can log in and view eligibility requirements and information on how to apply.

Once applications open, you can apply through the Scholarships and Grants portal.

About Dr James Stewart (1829-1906)

Irish physician, surgeon and philanthropist, James Stewart was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1829. After moving to Dublin in the late 1840s to receive his medical education, he emigrated to Victoria working as a ship’s surgeon in 1852. He was a key contributor to the growth of Ballarat as a city in the formative years of the Australian gold rush where he spent his prime years between 1852 and 1869. He contributed through his medical work on the goldfields and during the events of the Eureka Stockade in 1854, as well as through his civic duty, philanthropy and capitalist investment. He retired in England and left generous bequests to Victorian and Irish institutions when he died in 1906. Stewart set up his bequests as trusts that would provide income in perpetuity as he wanted his benevolent contributions to continue to help through time, benefiting future generations.

A generous and visionary pioneer, healer, leader, founding father of Ballarat and philanthropist, Dr James Stewart left his mark on Victoria where the Stewart Legacy continues to have an impact more than 160 years after he first set foot in Victoria. These scholarships incorporate the wishes of Stewart’s will, his original bequest to the Ballarat School of Mines and research in areas relevant to his life that were important to him and in which he made a large and important impact.

Recipients

2023 James Stewart Bequest

2022 James Stewart Bequest

2021 James Stewart Bequest

2020 James Stewart Bequest