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Royal Belfast Academical Institution has a preparatory department called Inchmarlo, founded in 1907 and now set in a 6-acre (24,000 m 2) site on Cranmore Park, off the Malone Road in South Belfast. Inchmarlo House was the former home of Sir William Crawford, a director of the York Street Flax Spinning Mill - it was called "Mount Randal".
He entered the collegiate classes of the Belfast Academical Institution in 1816, being one of the original alumni, and took gold medals in logic (1817) and moral philosophy (1818). [1] In 1819 the faculty prize was offered for the "best account of a parish". Benn was the successful essayist, with the parish of Belfast as his theme.
James MacDonnell (14 April 1763 – 5 April 1845) was an Irish physician and polymath who was an active and liberal figure in the civic and political life of Belfast.He was a founding patron of institutions that have since developed as the Royal Victoria Hospital, the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and the Linen Hall Library and, beginning with the organisation of the Belfast Harpers ...
1814 – The Royal Belfast Academical Institution opens as the Belfast Academical Institution. [48] 1815 – The Belfast cotton industry begins to lose momentum due to decreased demand after the Napoleonic Wars. [49] 1821 – The Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society is established. [46]
The Belfast Royal Academy (commonly shortened to BRA) is the oldest school in the city of Belfast, Northern Ireland. [1] It is a co-educational, non-denominational [2] voluntary grammar school in north Belfast. The Academy is one of 8 schools in Northern Ireland whose Head is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.
The Government School of Art was originally established as part of the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, from 1849 to 1855. [4] It moved to the current location in Cathedral Quarter later. It again opened in 1870. [4]
Beckett was a native of Belfast, where he received his education at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution (where he was a contemporary of R. B. McDowell) and Queen's University. [3] He initially read English literature before transferring to Modern History and in 1934 he graduated with First Class Honours. [1] [3] [4]
At the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, Moody's strongest subjects were the sciences and Latin, but one of his teachers, Archie Douglas turned his attention to history. [4] At the Queen's University Belfast, a professor James Eadie Todd encouraged Moody to pursue graduate studies. [5]