The purpose of the Trust is to assist post graduate medical students to study at Edinburgh University in Scotland.

David James Cummings died in Blenheim on 12 June 1980 leaving a substantial gift to this trust. He retired to Blenheim in his seventies after farming his family’s high country station “Glen Orkney” in the Awatere Valley in Marlborough. He never married and gifted his estate to improve the standards of New Zealand medical practitioners.

The David Cummings Medical Trust offers medical scholarships to promote and encourage post graduate medical studies at Edinburgh University in Scotland. The scholarship is known as “David Cummings Medical Scholarship” and is available to graduate medical practitioners resident or domiciled in New Zealand.

For more information, including the guidelines for applicants, download the information brochure.

If you would like to apply, you must complete the application form in writing. 

Please direct any queries and/or your application to:

Michael Williams
Perpetual Trust
PO Box 112
Christchurch 8140

Phone: (03) 379 8611 or freephone 0800 737 738
Fax: (03) 379 8608