| Description | Dr Theodore Stacey Wilson established the Stacey Sisters Bursaries by Trust Deed on 4 August 1948, giving £10,000 to be used to provide bursaries for children from Warwickshire Monthly Meeting enabling them to attend Bootham and The Mount, both Quaker schools. Friends Trusts Limited (the trust corporation for the Religious Society of Friends in Great Britain) acts as a perpetual trustee and the Stacey Sisters Bursaries was administered by a committee with one member appointed by Friends Trusts Limited, one member being the Clerk of Warwickshire Monthly Meeting Education Committee and two or three others appointed by Warwickshire Monthly Meeting. From 1982, it was decided that the bursaries should be administered by Warwickshire Monthly Meeting Education Committee, with the Stacey Sisters Bursaries Committee being made up of members of the Education Committee.
The bursaries were in memory of four Stacey sisters, daughters of George (1786 - 1857) Stacey of Tottenham and Deborah Lloyd (1796-1840) of Birmingham: Rachel Stacey (1820-1899), who married Arthur Albright (1811-1900) of Birmingham; Catharine Stacey (1826 - 1914) who married John Edward Wilson of Birmingham (1834–1907) (John and Arthur were founders of the firm Albright and Wilson, manufacturer of chemicals in Oldbury); Agatha Stacey (1836 - 1909), of Birmingham, who devoted her life to the welfare of young women and started the Agatha Stacey Training homes in the late 19th century; Mary Stacey (1822 - 1885) who married Robert Wilson of Brougton Grange, Cockermouth. |