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* [http://www.scottishschoolsonline.gov.uk/schools/highschoolofdundeedundeecity.asp High School of Dundee's page on Scottish Schools Online] |
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* [http://www.isc.co.uk/schools/scotland/angus/dundee/high-school-of-dundee Profile] on the [[Independent Schools Council|ISC]] website |
* [http://www.isc.co.uk/schools/scotland/angus/dundee/high-school-of-dundee Profile] on the [[Independent Schools Council|ISC]] website |
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* [http://www.hmc.org.uk/schools/high-school-of-dundee/ Profile] on the [[Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference|HMC]] website |
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The High School of Dundee | ||
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Rector | Dr. John D. Halliday | |
Staff | 106 teaching/53 non-teaching | |
Gender | Co-educational | |
Age | 3 to 18 | |
Enrollment | 1000 (Approx) | |
Houses |
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Colour(s) | Navy and gold | |
School song | Floreat Schola Taodunensis | |
Website | http://www.highschoolofdundee.co.uk |
The High School of Dundee is an independent,
The school's Rector is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.
History
The Grammar School
The School has origins in the Grammar School of Dundee founded by the
"Prestante Domino ", translated as "Under the Leadership of God", is taken.Little information survives about the early grammar school: it would have taught a Latin curriculum to boys from Dundee and the surrounding area. In 1434, the teaching methods of the Master, Gilbert Knight, were challenged by John, Bishop of Brechin, who conferred Laurence Lownan as the new Master in Knight's place.
Dundee was a hotbed of the Reformation, and St Mary's Church had, according to John Knox, the first truly reformed congregation in Scotland. The school itself was the earliest reformed school in the country, having adopted the new religion in 1554 under the master, Thomas Makgibbon, with the assistance of the (by-now Protestant) Dundee Town Council. However, John, the Abbot of Lindores stepped in to take control of the school which his predecessors had founded, replacing Makgibbon nominally with the Vicar of St. Mary's, John Rolland, who was given the power to appoint substitutes; this he did, his substitutes opening schools in opposition to the Grammar School, poaching its pupils. In the ensuing furore the Town Council, which approved of Makgibbon's methods, intervened to prevent rival schools.
Among other early masters was John Fethy, who left Scotland for Wittenberg from Dundee, having come into contact with Lutheran influences. He returned to Scotland around 1532 "the first organist that ever brought to Scotland the curious new fingering", that is, playing the organ with five fingers.
Early scholars included
After the Reformation, the Grammar School came under the auspices of Dundee Town Council. Greek was added to the curriculum shortly after 1562, under the Master Alexander Hepburn, who would author Grammaticae Artis Rudimenta Breviter et Dilucide Explicata, a Latin primer, in Dundee, and become bishop of Ross in 1574. Mary, Queen of Scots, also made an annual grant to the school in 1563, from the revenues of the church.
The school moved into its first permanent home in 1589, a building in St Clement's Lane demolished to make way for the City Square in the 1930s. One of the first masters here was
The English School and Dundee Academy
The English School was founded by the burgh council in 1702, and was the successor to the pre-Reformation “Song School”: it acted as a sort of elementary school for both sexes. It stood in School Wynd, by the city churches, near to the present site of the
In 1785, Dundee Academy was opened in the Nethergate, in a hospital building built by the Trinitarian Friars before the Reformation; today it is the site of St Andrews Roman Catholic Cathedral. This new school, also founded by the Council, was “to instruct young gentlemen in mathematical learning, and the several branches of the science with which it is connected.” Its first rector, James Weir, described as “a gentleman of considerable abilities, but rather a projector,” took great interest in the problem of perpetual motion. The school closed down altogether in 1795 after its second master,
Dundee Public Seminaries
For some years it had become apparent that the educational needs of the rapidly expanding burgh were inadequately met by the three burgh schools. In April 1829, a public meeting was held to consider the situation, where it was proposed to combine the schools within one building. Dundee Town Council had also been reviewing the position: following deliberations, it was decided that “the Magistrates and Town Council and all classes of the community shall unite in joint efforts for enlarging and improving the means of education in Dundee”. The schools hitherto under the patronage of the Council were to be reconstituted and handed over to a new body of directors, of whom ten were chosen by the Council, and ten by the subscribers to the new buildings. Thus, the three schools were united in 1829 to form the Dundee Public Seminaries, and in 1832-4 the present school, to the design of Edinburgh architect
The school was opened on 1 October 1834. The total cost of the building, including the playground and enclosure (not completed until 1837) was £10,000, the greater portion of which was raised by public subscription. Though it had one building and one management, the three schools remained more or less distinct; conflicting claims for precedence led to no rector being appointed. The centre was assigned to the Academy, the west wing to the Grammar School, and the east wing to the English School; the eight or nine headmasters acted independently, but presided in rotation over a Censor's Court, which dealt with matters of common concern. To this day, the heads of individual departments within the School are known as Headmasters, a unique reminder of this arrangement. From 1840, one of the directors was to exercise general supervision over the school as governor, or superintending director, with powers to "reform all abuses and irregularities".
The High School of Dundee
In 1859, a
The school church is Dundee Parish Church (St Mary's), continuing a tradition that has existed since its foundation in the thirteenth century, and services and concerts are regularly held in the church.
The school has a total of 1040 pupils in prep-school and the senior school. Fees for the 2009–2010 session range from £6672 to £9486.[1] The High School of Dundee was among the first Scottish charities investigated by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator for the public benefit derived from their tax-exempt status, and was the first independent school in the United Kingdom judged to have demonstrated its charitable aims and "local and national benefit". The High School was voted Scottish Independent Secondary School of the Year 2008 by The Times.[2]
Buildings and grounds
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The High School of Dundee is situated in seven buildings in the city centre:
- the Main Building (traditionally the Boys School)
- the Margaret Harris Building (the Girls School)
- the Robert Fergusson Building, housing the English department
- Trinity Meadowside, a former church, designed by David Bryce, housing the hall, library, drama department and recording studio
- Bonar House
- Baxter Hall
- the Lodge
There are also two main playing grounds,
Houses
The school has four
Notable alumni
- Sir William Aitken (1825–1892), pathologist
- Andrew Macbeth Anderson (1862–1936), Senior Scottish judge, Solicitor General for Scotland (1911–1913) and Liberal MP for North Ayrshire1910–1911
- Sir David Anderson (1880–1953), civil engineer and lawyer
- Alexander Balfour (1824–1886), merchant
- Charles Coupar Barrie, 1st Baron Abertay(1875–1940), politician
- William Edward Baxter (1825–1890), politician and author
- Mark Beaumont (born 1983), Adventurer and former record-holder for around world cycle
- General Sir John Bell (1782–1876), British general and Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey
- Principal of the University of Aberdeen, (1500–1536)
- H. N. Brailsford (1873–1958), journalist and author
- William Thomas Calman (1871–1952), zoologist, Keeper of Zoology at the British Museum
- Robert William Chapman (1881–1960), literary scholar and publisher
- Sir Andrew Clark, first baronet (1826–1893), physician
- William Cullen, Baron Cullen of Whitekirk, KT (born 1935), Lord President of the Court of Session, 2001–2005
- Ramsay Robertson Dalgety (born 1945), Judge of the Supreme Court, 1991–95, and Acting Chief Justice of Tonga, (1991–94)
- George Elder Davie (1912–2007), philosopher, lecturer at the University of Edinburgh
- George Dempster(1732–1818), lawyer and politician
- Alasdair Dickinson (born 1983), Scottish Rugby International
- Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan of Camperdown (1731–1804), Admiral of the Royal Navy
- Dave Duncan (born 1933), author
- John Duncan (1866–1945), painter and illustrator
- Zander Fagerson (born 1996), Scottish Rugby International
- Robert Fergusson (1750–1774), poet
- Robert Fleming (1845–1933), financier
- Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sussexand public servant
- George Gledstanes (Gladstanes) (c.1562–1615), archbishop of St Andrews
- Anne Glover (born 1956), Professor of Molecular & Cell Biology at the University of Aberdeen, Chief Scientific Adviser for Scotland (since 1996)
- Political Economyat the University of Aberdeen and poet
- Frank Hadden (born 1954), ex-Scottish rugby union coach
- James Haldane (1768–1851), Baptist minister and author
- Robert Haldane (1764–1842), theological writer and evangelical patron
- Thomas James Henderson(1798–1844), astronomer
- Sir James Ivory (1765–1842), FRS
- James Ivory, Lord Ivory (1792–1866), judge
- Francis Robert Japp (1848–1928), chemist
- A. L. Kennedy (born 1965), author
- Alexander Crawford Lamb (1843–1897), Dundee hotelier, antiquarian and art collector.
- Alexander Leighton (1800–1874), writer and literary editor
- David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer (1876–1962), diplomat and linguist
- William Laughton Lorimer(1885–1967), classical scholar and translator
- Very Rev Dr Finlay MacDonald(1945–), Principal Clerk to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, Moderator of the General Assembly (2002–2003)
- Advocates' Library, the precursor to the National Library of Scotland
- Iain MacMillan(1938–2006), photographer
- Air Marshal Iain McNicoll (1953–), Deputy Commander-in-Chief Operations, RAF Air Command
- Andrew Marr (born 1959), journalist
- Fred Miller (1863–1924), editor of The Daily Telegraph, 1923–1924
- Andy Nicol (1971–), ex-Scottish rugby international
- Sir Alan Peacock (born 1922), economist, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham, (1983–1984)
- Walter Perry (1921–2003), Lord Perry of Walton, first Vice-Chancellor of the Open University[3]
- Jon Petrie (born 1976), ex-Scottish rugby international
- Sir Hugh Lyon Playfair (1786–1861), army officer and Provost of St Andrews
- Chris Rea (born 1945), ex-Scotland and British Lions Rugby international
- Dr Bill Robertson CBE, MC, (1885-1942), army medical officer and member of the first official British Lions rugby tour in 1910
- Donald MacArthur Ross, Lord Ross (born 1927), Lord Justice Clerk(1985–1997)
- Richard Ross (born 1957), songwriter and frontman for Deacon Blue
- Henry Scrimgeour (Scrymgeour) (1505?–1572), diplomat and book collector, Professor of Philosophy and Civil Law in the University of Geneva.
- College of William and Mary, physician
- Norman Kemp Smith (1872–1958), Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh
- James S. Stewart (1896–1990), Theologian, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, (1963–1964)
- Brian Taylor (born 1955), BBC journalist
- Dalton's atomic theory.
- David Coupar Thomson(1861–1954), newspaper proprietor
- KT Tunstall (born 1975), singer-songwriter[5]
- Richie Vernon (born 1987), Scottish Rugby International
- Sir James Walker (1863–1935), Professor of Chemistry at University College, Dundee, and the University of Edinburgh
- Mike Watson (born 1949), Baron Watson of Invergowrie
- Preston Watson (1880–1915), pioneer of aviation, argued to have made the world's first powered flight
- Principal Clerk to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (1985–1996), Moderator of the General Assembly(1993–1994)
- James Wedderburn (c. 1495 – 1553), John Wedderburn (c. 1505–1556), and Robert Wedderburn (c. 1510–c.1555), religious reformers
- James Wedderburn (1585–1639), bishop of Dunblane (1636–1638)
- Sir James VIand diplomat
- Bruce William Ewart (1991-), automobile tycoon
References
- ^ "Fees". Highschoolofdundee.co.uk. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
- ^ "The Times - UK News, World News and Opinion". Timesonline.co.uk. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
- ^ "Walter Perry". Oxforddnb.com. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
- ^ "Former SFA chief executive David Taylor dies suddenly aged 60". STV News. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
- ^ "The Inventory: KT Tunstall". www.ft.com. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
Further reading
- The Dundee High School Magazine 1934
- The High School of Dundee Prospectus 1964
- Durkan, J., “Education: The Laying of Fresh Foundations”, in J. MacQueen (ed.), Humanism in Renaissance Scotland (Edinburgh, 1990).
- Durkan, J., “The cultural background in sixteenth-century Scotland, in David McRoberts (ed.) Essays on the Scottish Reformation, (Glasgow, 1962), pp. 274–331.
- Maxwell, A., Old Dundee prior to the Reformation, (Dundee, 1891).
- Stephenson, J.M.W., Education in the Burgh of Dundee in the Eighteenth Century, (Edinburgh, 1973).
External links
- School Website
- High School of Dundee's page on Scottish Schools Online
- Profile on the ISC website
- Profile on the HMC website