Ursula Fergusson was the wife of a past Vicar at St Albans, St Peter. In 1991, in her will, she bequeathed a sum of money to the Association, to be used to encourage good striking amongst young ringers. The sum was later increased through the generosity of her son and daughter. The Ursula Fergusson Bequest is a bursary awarded each year by the Association’s President to allow a young person, usually from the President’s District, to attend a ringing course aimed at improving that person’s striking. The Bequest has been awarded each year since 1992.
Past recipients of the award are:
Year | Recipient | Tower |
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2024 | Jack Sambridge | Thorley |
2023 | Nicholas Groves | St Peter, St Albans |
2022 | Thomas Groves | St Peter, St Albans |
2021 | No award made due to COVID lockdown | – |
2020 | Thomas Cubitt | Sawbridgeworth |
2019 | Jonathan Below | Great Berkhamsted |
2018 | Nicholas Dyne | Norton |
2017 | Daniel Gregory | Cheshunt |
2016 | Oliver Bond | Rickmansworth |
2015 | Robert Gurney | St. Peter’s, St. Albans |
2014 | Carsten Schäfer | St. Ippolyts |
2013 | James Coleman and Elliot James Orwin | Hemel Hempstead |
2012 | Craig Homewood | Royston |
2011 | Elizabeth Love-Clark | Hoddesdon |
2010 | Laurence Bourton | Ridge |
2009 | Katharine and Alexander Woods | Lemsford |
2008 | Rebecca Kiff | Kimpton |
2007 | Helen Beaumont | Northchurch |
2006 | Sam James | Baldock |
2005 | Alexandra Marsh | Hoddesdon |
2004 | Edward Jones | Rickmansworth |
2003 | Oliver Titmus | Lemsford |
2002 | Adam Crocker | Kimpton |
2001 | James Crawley | Hemel Hempstead |
2000 | Hazel Medhurst | Stevenage |
1999 | Alban Forster | Stevenage |
1998 | Claire Alldrick | Langleybury |
1997 | Stephen Penney | St Albans Abbey |
1996 | Jonathan Cresshull | Bishop’s Stortford |
1995 | Philip Watson | Apsley End |
1994 | Christine Horritt | Sandon |
1993 | Neil Cording | Broxbourne |
1992 | Peter Glover | Watford |