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Established during the thirteenth century in 1233, Ayr Academy is one of the oldest schools in the United Kingdom and Scotland. The school is operated by South Ayrshire Council, with Laura Traynor serving as Head Teacher. Ayr Academy's catchment area covers Newton-on-Ayr, Whitletts and the outlying villages of Coylton, Annbank, and Mossblown ...
The academy did not enter the Scottish Cup, but there were close links with the Ayr Eglinton club, which was formed in 1875. From the Ayr Academy cricket side, the King brothers [4] played for Eglinton in the 1875–76 Scottish Cup, and of the XI which played against the Ayr Volunteers in the 1875–76 season, [5] two players (Sliman and Reid) played for Eglinton in the 1875–76 Cup, and ...
While a Jordanhill player, he played five times for Scotland at number 8, his first appearance being in the match against England in March 1971. [1] He received his final cap against Presidents XV in 1973. [1]
William Wightman Beveridge (27 November 1858 – 26 January 1941) was a Scottish footballer and track and field athlete.. A Scottish athletics sprint champion born in Cumnock, Ayrshire, and educated at Ayr Academy, Beveridge was capped three times by the Scotland national football team between 1879 and 1880 while studying at the University of Glasgow and playing for Glasgow University F.C.
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Ayr Academy, Scotland (1233) Lancaster Royal Grammar School, England (1235) High School of Dundee, Scotland (1239) [1] Bailuzhou Middle School , Ji'an, China (1241) Harrow School, England (1243, Royal Charter in 1572) Katedralskolan, Uppsala, Sweden (exact year of foundation not known, by tradition 1246 [citation needed])
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The fourteen-year-old Robert Burns spent three weeks boarding and lodging with Murdoch, interrupted by harvest time, receiving instruction in English for a week [1] in Ayr at the Sandgate, accompanied by his friend John Tennant of Laigh Corton Farm [16] and he also began to learn French during the last two weeks, reading Fénelon's Telemaque. [17]