Preparatory school in Edinburgh, Scotland
Cargilfield Preparatory School
45 Gamekeeper's Road
, EH4 6HU
Scotland
Coordinates
55°58′11″N 3°18′00″W / 55.96971°N 3.30004°W / 55.96971; -3.30004 Type
Preparatory school Day & Boarding School Motto Deo Custode ("With God as [a] guardian") Religious affiliation(s) Church of Scotland Established 1873 Founder Rev Daniel Charles Darnell
[1] Headmaster Rob Taylor Gender Co-educational Age 3 to 13 Enrolment 322 Houses Bruce, Graham, Stuart, Wallace, Colour(s) Red, Navy blue, White Website
http://www.cargilfield.com/
Official name 45 Gamekeeper’s Road, Cargilfield School, Including Chapel, Nursery, Cricket Pavilion, Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Gates
[2] Designated 24 February 1997; 27 years ago (1997-02-24 )
[2] Reference no. LB43929
[2]
Cargilfield Preparatory School is a Scottish private co-educational boarding and
prep school in
Edinburgh , Scotland.
History
Cargilfield was founded in 1873 by Rev Daniel Charles Darnell
[3] an Episcopalian and former master at
Rugby School
[4] and was the first independent preparatory school in Scotland. Originally, the school was located at Cargilfield, a large villa on South Trinity Road in the
Trinity area of Edinburgh. It was sometimes referred to as Cargilfield Trinity School . It largely served as a feeder school to nearby
Fettes College .
In 1899, the school relocated to
Barnton .
[1]
In the period 2003–2012, the headmaster was John Elder. Among the changes he made to the school was the abolition of
homework .
[5]
In 2014, the UK government named the school in a list of 25 UK employers which had failed to pay workers the
national minimum wage , for underpaying an artist in residence by £3,739.
[6] The school responded that it had rectified this situation as soon as it was made aware of it, and apologised.
[7]
The school has reached the finals of the
UKMT Team Mathematics Challenge competition in five consecutive years (2013,
[8]
2014,
[9]
2015,
[10]
2016, and
[11]
2017.
[12]
)
Notable alumni
See also
Category:People educated at Cargilfield School
Torquhil Campbell, 13th Duke of Argyll (born 1968)
James Balfour-Melville (1882–1915), cricketer and soldier
Robin Barbour KCVO MC (1921–2014), Church of Scotland minister and author
John Lorne Campbell of
Canna (1906-1996) landowner and folklorist
Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton (1863–1930), electrical engineer
Euan Hillhouse Methven Cox (1893–1977), botanist and horticulturist
George Denholm (1908–1997), Second World War flying ace
Thomas Gillespie (1892–1914), Olympic rower
[13]
Sandy Gunn , photographic reconnaissance
Spitfire pilot, executed in 1944 after the
Great Escape
[14]
Sir William Oliphant Hutchison (1889–1970), portrait and landscape painter
Douglas Jamieson, Lord Jamieson (1880–1952), Unionist politician and judge
Logie Bruce Lockhart (1921–2020), Scotland international
rugby union footballer and headmaster
[15]
Hugh Mackenzie (1913–1996), Royal Navy officer
Donald M. MacKinnon (1913–1994), philosopher and theologian
Sir Thomas Stewart Macpherson (1920–2014), soldier
Duncan Menzies, Lord Menzies (born 1953), judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland
Victor Noel-Paton, Baron Ferrier (1900–1992), soldier and business man
William Robert Ogilvie-Grant (1863–1924), ornithologist
Lewis Robertson (1883–1914), Scotland rugby footballer and soldier
William Roy Sanderson DD (1907–2008), minister, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1967
Sir
Samuel Strang Steel of Philiphaugh Bt, landowner and
Conservative politician.
George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie (1931-2003),
Conservative politician and banker
References
^
a
b
Granton History site discussing street name origins, which cites the Rev Darnell as having founded the school
^
a
b
c
Historic Environment Scotland .
"45 Gamekeeper's Road, Cargilfield School, Including Chapel, Nursery, Cricket Pavilion, Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Gates (Category B Listed Building) (LB43929)" . Retrieved 17 July 2022 .
^ Leinster-Mackay, Donald (15 November 1984). The Rise of the English Prep School . Falmer Press Ltd.
ISBN
0905273745 .
^ Further Traditions of Trinity and Leith by Joyce Wallace ISBN 0-85976-282-3
^ Schofield, Kevin (5 April 2005).
"Ditching homework adds up to better grades" . The Scotsman. Archived from
the original on 18 May 2007. Retrieved 28 May 2007 .
^
"Government 'names and shames' minimum wage underpayers" . BBC. 8 June 2014. Retrieved 8 June 2014 .
^
"Edinburgh school 'failed to pay minimum wage' " . The Scotsman. 9 June 2014. Retrieved 29 August 2014 .
^ UK Mathematics Trust Yearbook 2012-2013 . United Kingdom Mathematics Trust. 2014.
ISBN
9781906001216 .
OCLC
922596589 .
^ UK Mathematics Trust Yearbook 2013-2014 . United Kingdom Mathematics Trust. 2015.
ISBN
978-1-906001-23-0 .
^ Uk mathematics trust yearbook 2014-2015 . United Kingdom Mathematics Trust. 2016.
ISBN
978-1906001261 .
^ UK Mathematics Trust Yearbook 2015-2016 . United Kingdom Mathematics Trust. 2017.
ISBN
978-1906001322 .
^
"Team Maths Challenge National Final 2017" (PDF) . UKMT. Archived from
the original (PDF) on 19 June 2017. Retrieved 19 June 2017 .
^
Letters from Flanders, written by 2nd Lieut. A. D. Gillespie, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, to his home people; (1916)
^ Cargilfield School Website (
https://www.cargilfield.com/pre-prep/news/post.php?s=2019-09-27-alastair-sandy-gunn-would-have-been-100 ) Alastair 'Sandy' Gunn would have been 100 'Great Escape' War Hero FP remembered." "Old boy Alastair ‘Sandy’ Gunn’s name shines brightly on our War Memorial in Chapel this morning." 27 September 2019.
^ Logie Bruce Lockhart, Now and Then, This and That (Larks Press, 2013), p. 27
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