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...
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Edinburgh (/ˈɛdɪnbərə/ ED-in-bər-ə, Scots: [ˈɛdɪnbʌrə]; Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Èideann [t̪un ˈeːtʲən̪ˠ]) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its...
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Former pupils of the Edinburgh Academy in Edinburgh. They include the following individuals. Graham Crowden Iain Glen, actor (EA 1965-78) Frank Taylor...
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Hall School The Compass School, Haddington The Edinburgh Academy Edinburgh Montessori Arts School Edinburgh Steiner School Erskine Stewart's Melville Schools...
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The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity that operates on a wholly independent...
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Jamie Sives (category Male actors from Edinburgh)
Scottish actor. Sives was born in Lochend, Edinburgh. He studied at Leith Academy. Sives attended Leith Academy with future Guilt co-star Mark Bonnar. During...
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Trinity Academy is a state-run secondary school in the north of Edinburgh, Scotland. It is located on the border between Trinity and Leith, next to Victoria...
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Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters...
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Andover Academy, Phillips Exeter Academy and Deerfield Academy. In England, "academy" had a specialized meaning for schools, but the Edinburgh Academy was...
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1826 by eleven artists meeting in Edinburgh. Originally named the Scottish Academy, it became the Royal Scottish Academy on being granted a royal charter...
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James Clerk Maxwell (category People educated at Edinburgh Academy)
profound implications for the boy. Maxwell was sent to the prestigious Edinburgh Academy. He lodged during term times at the house of his aunt Isabella. During...
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Charles Veitch (category Alumni of the University of Edinburgh)
business. He attended Edinburgh Academy before receiving a Master of Arts with honours in philosophy from the University of Edinburgh. He joined the Territorial...
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of Edinburgh is a unit within the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Its constituent departments (called 'subject areas' in Edinburgh) conduct...
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Scotland Championship. The club was formed in 1855 by alumni of the Edinburgh Academy and play at Raeburn Place. The club is the oldest Old Boys cricket...
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teachers from 1953 to the 1990s have been accused of molesting boys at Edinburgh Academy. Graham Buck, a former pupil at the junior boarding house, described...
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Iain Glen (category People educated at Edinburgh Academy)
John Proctor. Glen was born on 24 June 1961 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and educated at the Edinburgh Academy, an independent school for boys (now co-educational)...
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Roger Jenkins (banker) (category People educated at Edinburgh Academy)
born in Scotland, the son of an oil refinery manager. He attended Edinburgh Academy and studied economics at Heriot-Watt University graduating with an...
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D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (category People educated at Edinburgh Academy)
Street in Edinburgh to Fanny Gamgee (sister of Sampson Gamgee) and D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1829–1902), Classics Master at Edinburgh Academy and later...
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Duncan Campbell (journalist, born 1944) (category People educated at Edinburgh Academy)
is also the author of several books. Campbell was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and at Glenalmond College, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. (Glenalmond...
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William Edmondstoune Aytoun (category People educated at Edinburgh Academy)
of eleven years William was sent to the Edinburgh Academy, and subsequently entered the University of Edinburgh. Aytoun published his first book, Poland...
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of Hialeah Educational Academy, a school in Hialeah, Florida Edinburgh Academy, a school in Edinburgh, Scotland Episcopal Academy, a school in Newtown,...
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Trustees' Academy was an independent art and trade school in Edinburgh, Scotland, providing tertiary education in art and design. The Academy was founded...
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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, later Philip Mountbatten; 10 June 1921 – 9 April 2021), was the husband of...
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David Jenkins (sprinter) (category People educated at Edinburgh Academy)
Jenkins was educated at Edinburgh Academy, where he excelled at sport. From 1970 to 1973 he attended the University of Edinburgh (1970–1973) where, as a...
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Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) is one of eleven schools in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. Tracing...
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regularly taking place in Edinburgh, Scotland. The city has become known for its festivals since the establishment in 1947 of the Edinburgh International Festival...
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Patrick Grant (designer) (category People educated at Edinburgh Academy)
businesses. Grant attended South Morningside Primary School, then Edinburgh Academy before joining Barnard Castle School as a boarding pupil. Grant explained...
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The University of Edinburgh (Scots: University o Edinburgh, Scottish Gaelic: Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann; abbreviated as Edin. in post-nominals) is a public...
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Robert Louis Stevenson (category People educated at Edinburgh Academy)
school at age 6, a problem repeated at age 11 when he went on to the Edinburgh Academy; but he mixed well in lively games with his cousins in summer holidays...
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Henry Hozier (category People educated at Edinburgh Academy)
Lanarkshire, Hozier was educated at Rugby School, Edinburgh Academy and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He was successively lieutenant in the Royal...
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