Church of Scotland and Free Church Normal Seminaries

Year of the Report	Report No.	Number of applicants	Number of students accepted for training	Number rejected for lack of funds	Number rejected for insufficient qualifications	Number under consideration	Number withdrawn	Number appointed to schools4
1839	First
1840	Second
1841	Third	6	6
1842	Fourth	29+11	7+11	22
1843	Fifth	302	182	12
1844	Sixth	1103	42		37	23	8
1845	Seventh	136	44		59	20	13
1846	Eighth	132	60		43	12	17	38
1847	Ninth	117	38		42	29	8	45
1848	Tenth	116	43		59	14		40
1849	Eleventh	835	30		37	14	5	32
1850	Twelfth	665	30		20	3	4

¹ One student was preparing at Glasgow for St Mary’s in the Gambia at the expense of the Missionary Committee.

² As with all Committees who are trying to demonstrate hard work and success some numbers encapsulate previous candidates. Ten of this number, who are named, are first mentioned in the previous two reports.

³ The number of applicants in Sixth Report must be a summary of the numbers so far

⁴ The schools to which students were sent are detailed below.

⁵ These numbers do not tally. It is probable that the number of applicants should be 86 and 57 respectively.

The Manuscript Register of Teachers[footnote]The numbers are pencilled on each page of the Register and totalled as above on p.43.[/footnote]at Westminster gives the number of Wesleyan Glasgow trained students as 248 men and 90 women, total 338 or less 4 doubtful = 334. It is from this source that the statement was obtained which now appears on the tablet in the entrance porch to the college, namely,

“July 1837, Wesleyan Education Committee formed. 1839. Two students sent for training to Glasgow, two to Borough Road.

1839-1851, 248 men students and 90 women students were trained at Stow’s Normal Seminary, Glasgow.”