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The Edinburgh Academy is a private day school in Edinburgh, Scotland, which was opened in 1824. The original building, on Henderson Row in the city's New Town , is now part of the Senior School. The Junior School is on Arboretum Road to the north of the city's Royal Botanic Garden .
Nine Edinburgh Academy alumni have received the Victoria Cross. [5] Colonel Thomas Cadell VC CB; Lieutenant-General Sir James Hills-Johnes VC GCB; Colonel John Adam Tytler VC CB; Captain James Dundas VC; Major John Cook VC; Colonel Edward Douglas Browne-Synge-Hutchinson, VC, CB (he also attended United Services College in 1875). He was a Major ...
William Fettes (1750–1836), Lord Provost of Edinburgh and benefactor of Fettes College; James Pillans (1778–1864), educational reformer and classical scholar, inventor of the blackboard; Leonard Horner (1785–1864), geologist, a founder of the Edinburgh Academy and University College School; Walter Scott Dalgleish (1834–1897), writer
Edinburgh Academicals rugby union players (102 P) Pages in category "People educated at Edinburgh Academy" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 406 total.
Horner was a founder of the School of Arts of Edinburgh, now Heriot-Watt University and one of the founders of the Edinburgh Academy. A 'radical educational reformer' he was involved in the establishment of University College School. As a commissioner on the Royal Commission on the Employment of Children in Factories, Horner arguably did more ...
This benefaction was similar in style to the benefaction of George Watson, who founded and supported other schools in Edinburgh. In 1938, Donaldson's School absorbed the Royal Institute for Deaf and Dumb, Edinburgh, which had been founded in 1824. The institute's headquarters in Henderson Row subsequently became part of the Edinburgh Academy. [3]
H.H. Almond: 'well into the 1870s the only schools able to play each other on even terms were The Edinburgh Academy, Merchiston and The High School.' From the mid-1860s, senior (former pupils) clubs started to appear in both the Edinburgh and Glasgow areas and these clubs, making good use of the then new railways, began to play each other.
The Royal Scottish Academy building, the home of the Royal Scottish Academy, is an art museum in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is situated at the junction of The Mound and Princes Street in the centre of the city. It was built by William Henry Playfair in 1822-6.