Definitions

The Trustees have adopted, as a matter of policy, the following definitions:

1.    The definition of "Commercial Travellers" shall be as follows:

"The representative, agent or principal of any UK firm of manufacturers, industrial or commercial firm or company, or wholesale dealers selling to industry or commerce, but not direct to the public, who has travelled for five consecutive years and, in the aggregate, for at least six months in each of those years, for the purposes of securing orders and/or promoting business".

2.    The definition of "Chemists" shall be as follows:

"A member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, engaged in selling or dispensing medicines direct to the public".

3.    The definition of "Grocers" shall be as follows:

"A person engaged or employed in a UK business of selling by retail a wide range of goods, whether edible or not, used in household provision and management excluding persons owning or employed by a business having more than (fifty) employees".

The qualifying parent of a student applying for an undergraduate or postgraduate bursary should have been engaged in their occupation in the UK for at least five years and should either be currently so engaged or should have taken their retirement from such an occupation within the last ten years. A parent who is unemployed (or deceased) but who fell within one of these three categories when their employment ceased (or they died) is also included.