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Scotch College owes its foundations to a conversation at an 1896 dinner party, where the parent of a 12-year-old boy, Jane Alexander, wife of William Alexander, MLC, complained that there was an absence of a Presbyterian school for boys in Perth. [8] She offered David Ross, moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Western Australia, £500 to ...
Scotch College is a private, Presbyterian day and boarding school for boys, located in Hawthorn, an inner-eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.. The college was established in 1851 as The Melbourne Academy in a house in Spring Street, Melbourne, by the Free Presbyterian Church of Victoria at the urging of James Forbes. [4]
Scotch College is the name of several schools affiliated with either the Uniting Church or Presbyterian Church. (There are also a number of schools and Roman Catholic seminaries called Scots College.) Scotch College, Adelaide, in Torrens Park and Mitcham, South Australia; Scotch College, Melbourne, in Hawthorn, Victoria
The Kyre College logo was oval in shape, coloured blue and gold, with a central shield containing images of a book, a lamp, a beehive, and crossed cricket bats, separated by a Christian cross. Above the shield was the Lion Rampant that would become the mascot of Scotch College. Similarly, blue and gold would become the Scotch College school ...
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Scotch College (informally known as Scotch or SC) is an independent school for boys, situated in Swanbourne, Western Australia, Australia.The school is a member of the Public Schools Association (PSA) and is now a Uniting Church school, although it was founded in 1897 by the Presbyterian Church of Australia.
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This article is about Scotch College located in Perth, Western Australia; for information regarding other schools named Scotch College, see Scotch College. This category is for former students of Scotch College, Perth, commonly known as Old Scotch Collegians.