HUGUENOT SOCIETY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP

The Huguenot Society of South Carolina awards a scholarship to a student working toward a graduate degree in history. The winning submission will be published in Transactions of the Huguenot Society of South Carolina, and the author will be awarded $1,000.00.

The essay must be a work of scholarship on a Huguenot topic. It may examine any aspect of the religious, political, economic, social, or intellectual history of the French or Walloon Protestants from the sixteenth century to the present. The essay may deal with any appropriate geographical area.

The essay must follow specific guidelines provided by the Society regarding length, format, documentation, and footnotes. Text should not exceed twenty-five double-spaced, typed pages, excluding footnotes and illustrations. Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition is to be used as a guide for writing the essay.

The essay must be original and never before published. It can, however, be a paper prepared as part of a graduate course requirement.

All essays must be submitted no later than December 31st. The winner will be announced at the Society’s Annual Meeting the following April. Scholarships will be awarded according to the decision of the judges and may not be awarded every year.

Please contact the Huguenot Society of South Carolina for guidelines and additional information.

Huguenot Society of South Carolina
138 Logan Street
Charleston, South Carolina 29401-1941
(843) 723-3235
director@huguenotsociety.org 

 

MARY MOUZON DARBY
UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP

The Huguenot Society of South Carolina is pleased to announce The Mary Mouzon Darby Scholarship. This $1,000 undergraduate scholarship is for Huguenot descendents and will be awarded annually beginning in 2007. This scholarship is made possible through the generosity of Miss Betty-Ann Darby, in honor of her mother Mary Mouzon Darby. Deadline for this scholarship is December 31st; complete guidelines can be obtained by calling the Society office at (843) 723-3235.

Mary Mouzon Darby was born April 3, 1896, in Georgetown, SC, the eldest of the four daughters of Laurens and Esther Gordon Mouzon. Through her paternal grandfather she was a direct descendent of Henry Mouzon and through her paternal grandmother was a descendent of his brother Louis II. They came to America with their father, Louis Mouzon, from Ville de Mouzon in France in the early 1700s.

Although she was not fortunate enough to have a college education, Mary Mouzon Darby was extremely well read and expressed herself beautifully in both oral and written language. She was the devoted wife of William Henry (Will) Darby, Jr. and mother of Lydia Gordon, who died at 19 months, and Betty-Ann, who survives. Like her father before her and her daughter after her, she was a long-time member of the Huguenot Society and was the family’s unofficial genealogist. She died in 1984, ten years after the death of her husband.

Mary Mouzon Darby treasured her Huguenot lineage and would be pleased that, through a scholarship in her name, a Huguenot descendant will receive the college education that circumstances denied her.