:The Glasgow Academy
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{{Infobox school
| name = The Glasgow Academy
| image = TheGlasgowAcademyCrest.jpg
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| motto = Serva Fidem
| established = {{start date and age|1845}}
| closed =
| type = Public School
Private day school
| religious_affiliation = Church of Scotland
| president =
| head_label = Rector
| head = Matt Gibson
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| chair_label = Chair
| chair = Jane Gotts
| founders = Members of Free Church of Scotland
| specialist =
| motto_translation = Keep Faith
| address = Colebrooke Street
| city = Glasgow
| county =
| country = Scotland
| postcode = G12 8HE
| local_authority = Glasgow City Council
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| enrolment = 1660
| gender = Mixed
| lower_age = 3
| upper_age = 18
| houses = {{color box|Navy}} Arthur
{{color box|Purple}} Fraser
{{color box|LightBlue}} Morrison
{{color box|White}} Temple
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| free_label_1 = Charity Number
| free_1 = SCO 15638
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| free_label_3 = Campuses
| free_3 = Kelvinbridge, Milngavie & Newlands[https://mosaic-ad.com/2018/01/23/children-bowled-over-by-newlands-nursery/ Children bowled over by Newlands Nursery for The Glasgow Academy], Mosaic Architecture + Design, 23 January 2018
| website = {{URL|www.theglasgowacademy.org.uk}}
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The Glasgow Academy is a coeducational private day school for pupils aged 3–18 in Glasgow, Scotland. In 2016, it had the third-best Higher level exam results in Scotland.{{cite web|title=Record exam results!|url=http://www.theglasgowacademy.org.uk/news/48|access-date=26 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150622220124/http://www.theglasgowacademy.org.uk/news/48|archive-date=22 June 2015|url-status = dead}} Founded in 1845, it is the oldest continuously fully private school{{cite web |url=http://www.guidetoindependentschools.com/schools/view/165/Glasgow-Academy/HMC-HAS/The-Glasgow-Academy-Colebrooke-Street-Glasgow-G12-8HE |title=Glasgow Academy | Junior and Senior Mixed Independent School | Scotland |publisher=Guide to Independent Schools |access-date=26 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110630183006/http://www.guidetoindependentschools.com/schools/view/165/Glasgow-Academy/HMC-HAS/The-Glasgow-Academy-Colebrooke-Street-Glasgow-G12-8HE |archive-date=30 June 2011 |url-status = dead}} in Glasgow.
History
In May 1845, William Campbell of Tullichewan convened a meeting in the Star Hotel in George Square with Free Church ministers to discuss establishing "an Academic Institution in the City". As a result of this meeting, The Glasgow Academy was formed.{{Cite book |last=MacLeod |first=Iain |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37560336 |title=The Glasgow Academy : 150 years |date=1997 |publisher=Glasgow Academicals' War Memorial Trust |others=Glasgow Academicals' War Memorial Trust |isbn=0-9530515-0-1 |location=Glasgow |oclc=37560336}}
The Scottish Rugby Union was founded on Monday 3 March 1873 at a meeting held at The Glasgow Academy.{{Cite web |last=Barnes |first=David |date=2023-03-03 |title=Happy birthday to the Scottish Rugby Union – 150 years old today |url=https://www.theoffsideline.com/happy-birthday-to-the-scottish-rugby-union-150-years-old-today/ |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=Scottish Rugby News from The Offside Line |language=en-GB}}
The school war memorial was designed by former pupil Alexander Nisbet Paterson in 1922.{{cite web | url=http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=200361 | title=Dictionary of Scottish Architects – DSA Architect Biography Report (September 7, 2022, 3:57 am) }}
In 1981 the school admitted girl pupils for the first time.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Dvk9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=SUkMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2026%2C5511279 |title=Glasgow Academy to take in girl pupils for the first time |first=Tom |last=Shields |date=25 May 1981 |page=14 |access-date=3 March 2018}}
In 1991, Glasgow Academy merged with Westbourne School for Girls,{{cite news |url= http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12155475.Till__the_end__of_their_days/ |title=Till the End of Their Days |work=The Herald |location= Glasgow |first=Tim |last=Luckhurst |date=12 January 2001 |access-date=15 June 2016}} adopting the distinctive purple of its uniform in the school badge and tartan. It is in Kelvinbridge and has approximately 1350 pupils, split between three preparatory school sites and a senior school.
The Glasgow Academy's preparatory school is the first school in the UK to have been awarded the Diana Gold Award for Anti-Bullying.{{Cite web |title=Diana Award |url=https://www.theglasgowacademy.org.uk/about-us/the-diana-award/ |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=The Glasgow Academy |language=en-GB}}
In 2024, The Glasgow Academy was awarded the Employer Recognition Scheme Gold Award by the Ministry of Defence.{{Cite web |title=Diana Award |url=https://www.theglasgowacademy.org.uk/about-us/the-diana-award/ |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=The Glasgow Academy |language=en-GB}}
The current rector is Matt Gibson, who has held the position since 2025.{{Cite web |last=Reporter |first=S. M. P. |date=2024-09-05 |title=The Glasgow Academy appoints new rector |url=https://www.schoolmanagementplus.com/movers-shakers/the-glasgow-academy-appoints-new-rector/ |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=School Management Plus |language=en-US}}
HMIe last inspected the school in November 2008.{{Cite web |url=http://www.theglasgowacademy.org.uk/ntga/home/The%20Glasgow%20Academy%20HMIe%20Report.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=11 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723013022/http://www.theglasgowacademy.org.uk/ntga/home/The%20Glasgow%20Academy%20HMIe%20Report.pdf |archive-date=23 July 2011 |url-status = dead }}
Notable alumni
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{{Category see also|People educated at the Glasgow Academy}}
- Frederick Anderson, Chairman, Municipal Council, Shanghai International Settlement, 1905–06.
- John Arthur, Church of Scotland missionary to East Africa.
- J. M. Barrie, writer of Peter Pan
- Laura Bartlett, British hockey international and Olympic athlete{{cite web |author=Laura Bartlett |url=http://www.greatbritainhockey.co.uk/athlete.asp?itemid=78&itemTitle=Laura+Bartlett§ion=0001000100020004§ionTitle=Women%27s+Squad |title=Laura Bartlett |publisher=Great Britain Hockey |access-date=26 June 2011 }}{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite web|url=http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/4/225274.shtml|title=Athlete – The official website of the BEIJING 2008 Olympic Games|access-date=4 May 2018|url-status = bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080909174218/http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/4/225274.shtml|archive-date=9 September 2008}}{{cite web |url=http://www.theglasgowacademy.org.uk/ntga/parental/archive/LauraInspration.html |title=Parents Info – News |publisher=Theglasgowacademy.org.uk |access-date=26 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723012937/http://www.theglasgowacademy.org.uk/ntga/parental/archive/LauraInspration.html |archive-date=23 July 2011 |url-status = dead}}
- John Beattie (rugby union), rugby union player for Scotland and British Lions
- James Bridie, playwright, screenwriter and physician
- Jack Buchanan, actor, singer & dancer
- Sir James Caird (1864–1954), founder of the National Maritime Museum.
- Sir David Young Cameron (1865–1945), Scottish painter and etcher.
- John Traill Cargill, Chairman of Burmah Oil Company, 1904–1943
- Jackson Carlaw, Scottish Conservative Party MSP
- Horatio Scott Carslaw (1870–1954), Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics at the University of Sydney.
- Archibald Corbett, 1st Baron Rowallan, politician and philanthropist.
- Douglas Crawford, Scottish National Party MP
- Pippa Crerar, Political Editor of the Daily Mirror
- Darius Campbell (born Danesh), singer-songwriter & actor
- Donald Dewar, Scottish Labour Party MP and MSP, first First Minister of Scotland
- Ronald Drever, Professor of Physics at Caltech and part of the team that first detected gravitational waves
- Andrew Dunlop, Baron Dunlop, Conservative peer
- Walter Elliot, Scottish Unionist Party MP, Secretary of State for Scotland
- Niall Ferguson, Professor of History at Harvard University
- Alexander Forrester, cricketer and cricket administrator
- George MacDonald Fraser, author{{cite news |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/03/db0304.xml |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080109010859/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/03/db0304.xml |url-status=dead |archive-date=9 January 2008 |title=George MacDonald Fraser |work=The Telegraph |location= London |date=3 January 2008 |access-date=26 June 2011}}
- John Gardner (law), Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Oxford
- Thomas Dunlop Galbraith, 1st Baron Strathclyde, Scottish Unionist Party MP
- Group Captain Sir Louis Leisler Greig, KBE, CVO British naval surgeon, and intimate of King George VI (1880–1953)
- Sir Angus Grossart, Chairman and executive director of merchant bank Noble Grossart{{cite news |last=Fraser |first=Douglas |url= http://www.theherald.co.uk/politics/news/display.var.2444552.0.Why_Grossarts_appointment_is_such_a_coup_for_Swinney.php |title=Why Grossart's appointment is such a coup |work=Herald Scotland |location= Glasgow |date=11 September 2008 |access-date=26 June 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220722200626/https://www.heraldscotland.com/default_content/12756667.grossarts-appointment-coup/ |archive-date=22 July 2022 |url-status=dead}}
- Rev. Dr Andrew Harper, Scottish–Australian Biblical scholar and Principal of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne and St Andrew's College, Sydney (also attended Scotch College, Melbourne){{cite encyclopedia| last = Chambers| first = Don| encyclopedia =Australian Dictionary of Biography| title = Harper, Andrew (1844–1936) | url = http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090198b.htm?hilite=harper| access-date = 4 March 2008| edition = Online| year = 1983| publisher = Melbourne University Press| volume =9| location = Melbourne| pages = 200–202}}
- Sir Michael Hirst, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party MP and chairman
- Sir William Wilson Hunter, KCSI CIE (1840–1900)
- Andrew Innes, cricketer
- Jeremy Isaacs, founder of Channel 4
- William Paton Ker, literary critic
- John Kerr, Baron Kerr of Kinlochard, diplomat and crossbench life peer
- Alexander Dunlop Lindsay, 1st Baron Lindsay of Birker, philosopher
- Maurice Lindsay CBE Scottish broadcaster, writer and poet (1918–2009).
- Sir James Lithgow, shipbuilder and industrialist; 1883–1952
- Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum{{cite web|url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article5400493.ece |access-date=26 September 2016 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110830210522/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article5400493.ece |archive-date=30 August 2011 |title=Briton of the Year: Neil MacGregor}}
- Robert Maclennan, Baron Maclennan of Rogart, leader of the Social Democratic Party and the Liberal Democrats
- Alan MacNaughtan, actor
- Guy McCrone, author and founding member of the Glasgow Citizens Theatre
- George Matheson theologian and preacher (1842–1906)
- Jim Mollison pioneer aviator (1905–1959)
- W. H. Murray, mountaineer, explorer and writer
- Robin Nisbet (1925–2013), professor of Latin literature
- David Omand Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, former senior British civil servant, visiting professor at King's College London
- Alexander Pollock, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party MP, sheriff
- William Ramsay, Nobel laureate (Chemistry 1904), discovered the gas 'Argon'
- John Reith, 1st Baron Reith, founder of the BBC
- Albert Russell, Scottish Unionist Party MP, Solicitor General for Scotland
- James Scott, obstetrician and gynaecologist
- William Sharp, poet and literary biographer
- Chris Simmers, professional rugby union player and Scotland rugby league international
- Ninian Smart, scholar of religion
- Norman Stone, historian
- Euan Stubbs, cricketer
- Iain Vallance, Baron Vallance of Tummel, ex-Chief Executive of BT, Liberal Democrat politician
- Herbert Waddell Scottish rugby internationalist and president of the Barbarians (1902–1988)
- William Walker, cricketer, cricket administrator, and British Army officer
- Sir James Wordie, polar explorer and geologist
Notable alumnae of Westbourne School for Girls
{{see also|Category:People educated at Westbourne School for Girls}}
- Vivien Heilbron, actress
- Fiona Kennedy, singer, actress and broadcaster
- Kate Mavor, CEO of English Heritage
- Jacqueline Lee, Chair, Association for Heritage Interpretation, Founder Artemis Scotland.
Bibliography
MacLeod, Iain M., The Glasgow Academy 150 Years, (The Glasgow Academicals' War Memorial Trust, 1997)
References
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External links
- [http://www.theglasgowacademy.org.uk Official website]
- [https://archive.today/20121224000026/http://www.scottishschoolsonline.gov.uk/schools/glasgowacademytheglasgowcity.asp The Glasgow Academy's page on Scottish Schools Online]
- [http://www.isc.co.uk/schools/scotland/lanarkshire/glasgow/the-glasgow-academy Profile] on the Independent Schools Council website
- [https://www.saturdayschoolglasgow.com/ Saturday School Ltd] website.
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