Glenalmond College

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Glenalmond College
Image:Glenalmond.png
Motto Floreat Glenalmond
Established 1847
Type Independent coeducational boarding secondary
Warden Gordon Woods
Students 395
Grades S1–S6
Location Perth and Kinross, Scotland
Campus Rural; 300 acres
Website www.glenalmondcollege.co.uk

Glenalmond College (formerly known as Trinity College, Glenalmond) is the name of a co-educational independent boarding school in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, for children aged between 12 and 18 years. It is situated on the River Almond near the village of Methven, about 8 miles west of the city of Perth. The school's motto is Floreat Glenalmond ('Let Glenalmond Flourish'). The school is affectionately known as "Coll" by pupils and staff.

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[edit] History

Glenalmond College was founded as an independent school by William Ewart Gladstone and M.E. Hope (later Hope-Scott of Abbotsford). It was to be "north of the Firth of Forth, and removed from the vicinity of any large town, a College to be called The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, which may receive and board a large number, say ultimately 150 to 200 youths from eight to eighteen years of age, and also afford a sound Clerical Education to young men destined for Holy Orders". Gladstone and his father (Sir John Gladstone) inspected several sites before deciding on a site proposed by George Patton of Cairnies. Once the site was decided upon, John Henderson was commissioned as architect. The school opened its doors on the 4th May, 1847 to fourteen boys (though one boy, Lord Ker, later Marquess of Lothian and Secretary for Scotland, notoriously arrived a day early). The first Warden (headmaster) was Charles Wordsworth.

Until 1990 Glenalmond was an all-boys school, but it is now co-educational. The proportion of boys to girls is currently 2:1 although increasing numbers of female applicants has given rise to talk of a third girls boarding house.

[edit] Boarding houses

The pupils are classified into one of seven houses, named after staff who participated in the development of the school. The boys' houses are Skrine's, Matheson's, Patchell's, Goodacre's, and Reid's. The girls' houses are Home and Lothian. Until 1992 there was another boys' house called The Cairnies which was reopened in the summer of 2006 as a girls' sixth form house.

[edit] Former Pupils

Former pupils are known as OGs (Old Glenalmond).

[edit] References

  • The Glenalmond Register 1950-1985 and Supplement 1900-1949, published by Hunter & Foulis Ltd. 1986

[edit] External links

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