Four students have each been awarded the Nicholl scholarship to help pursue their further education.

Lindsay Fisher, Zachary Friesen, Christia Wright and Ashley Berry were each awarded $25,000 scholarships for the period of their present course of study — up to four years — by the trustees of the Nicholl Scholarships.

Ms Fisher, Mr Friesen and Ms Wright are each pursuing undergraduate degrees. Ms Fisher is seeking her bachelor of medicine and bachelor of surgery at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, Mr Friesen a bachelor of business administration at Trinity Western University in British Columbia and Ms Wright a bachelor of arts and bachelor of science at Union College in Nebraska.

Meanwhile, Ms Berry won the postgraduate scholarship to work towards her bachelor of medicine and bachelor of surgery at the University of Buckingham in the UK.

The Nicholl Scholarships are named after Albert E Nicholl, known locally as “Nicky”, who came to the Island in the First World War as chief executive of the Royal Navy Reserve in St George’s.

A spokeswoman for the trustees of the Nicholl Scholarships said: “He was always interested in the education of young Bermudians. He gave much of his time and talents to education in Bermuda, particularly at Dellwood School.

“By his will he gave the bulk of his estate in trust to provide scholarships to young Bermudians for education at accredited universities in the British Commonwealth and the United States of America.

“During his lifetime Lieutenant Nicholl contributed generously to a wide variety of local charities. Through his donations he founded the Nicholl Institute, a manual training school enabling boys to learn a trade.

“He also established scholarships at Dellwood, the Berkeley Institute and Saltus during the period when Bermudian secondary schools charged fees to enable students to obtain secondary education whose parents were unable to pay the school fees.

“He donated a new maternity wing to the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital and dedicated the wing to the memory of his father Sir Edward Nicholl who was a member of the House of Commons in the United Kingdom for two terms.”