The original Trustees were far sighted in setting up the Scholarship for the benefit of Nottinghamshire and came from a cross section of society. They included Lord Mayors, MPs, Justices of the peace, Captains of Industry, unions, banking and education. These were the original Trustees

Name	Address	Position
Francis Carney	Nottingham	Former Lord Mayor of Nottingham
Robert Shaw Esq, JP	Nottingham	Lord Mayor of Nottingham
John Edwin Mitchell	Nottingham
Rt Hon Lord Trent JP	Nottingham	Chairman and Managing Director Boots Pure Drug Co Ltd
Sir Ernest Jardine	Nottingham	Governing Director of John Jardine Limited
George Hooton Spencer, JP	Winwick Manor near Rugby	Chairman and Managing Director of George Spencer Limited Vedona Works Alpine Street
George Hamilton Bracher Wilson, OBE, MC, AFC, JP	Plumtree	Managing Director of the Raleigh Cycle Company Limited
William Bayliss	Not stated	President for the time being of the Miners’ Federated Union
William Charles Cooper	Chilwell	Factory Manager of Ericsson Telephone Limited
Frederick William Gray	Sherwood	Chairman of the Nottingham Anglo-American Committee
James Lauder Nicol, OBE	Borough of Southport	His Majesty’s Divisional Inspector of the Ministry of Education
Alan Robin Hedgcock	Nottingham	Manager of Westminster Bank Limited Thurland Street Nottingham
George Alfred Spencer DL, JP	West Bridgford
Ernest Bignall, JP	Nottingham