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The school was the first Scottish day school for girls which taught students all the way up to university entrance level. Girls from St. George's were among the first female graduates of Edinburgh University. [7] In 1912 the school took its first board students [10] and the following year St George's Training College became part of the school ...
St George's School, Edinburgh: 77.9 62.6 3 Dollar Academy: 76.5 66.2 4 Hutchesons' Grammar School: 76.1 73.7 5 St Columba's School: 76.1 72.2 6 The High School of Glasgow: 75.7 80.4 7 Albyn School: 73.9 58.9 8 The Glasgow Academy: 73.6 66.2 9 Stewart's Melville College: 73.3 68.9 10 The Mary Erskine School: 73.1 75.2 11 High School of Dundee ...
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Some wealthy individuals established "hospitals", boarding schools for deserving pupils, such as George Heriot's Hospital, Edinburgh, which was founded in 1628 and whose impressive building was opened in 1656 for 180 boys. [21]
In June 1879, he resigned and his position at St George's was filled by Rev Archibald Scott. [1] He died on 15 November 1886 and is buried near the centre of the northern 19th-century extension of Dean Cemetery in western Edinburgh. He is buried with his wife and his son-in-law, the artist Alexander Garden Sinclair (1859–1930).
St George's, Edinburgh, granted 1988 Escutcheon: On a shield of oval form Argent, on a cross cotised Gules a torteau fimbriated Argent charged of the figure of St. George riding to the sinister and slaying a dragon of the First, in dexter chief a torch endlamed of the Second and in an Escrol below the same this.
St Thomas of Aquin's College for the training of Catholic teachers was formally established in 1865 by the Sisters of Mercy at St Catharine's Convent on Lauriston Gardens, Edinburgh. It expanded its remit and in 1886 the all-girls St Thomas of Aquin's College was established.
St Paul's and St George's Church (known colloquially as "Ps and Gs") is an evangelical church of the Scottish Episcopal Church in central Edinburgh, Scotland. [1] It is located on the corner of Broughton Street and York Place in the east end of Edinburgh's New Town , and is protected as a category A listed building .