Brechin High School

Brechin High School is a non-denominational secondary school in Brechin, Angus, Scotland.

Brechin High School
Address
Duke Street Brechin , Angus , DD9 6LB Scotland
Coordinates	56°44′13″N 2°40′16″W
Information
Type	Comprehensive
Motto	Ad Altiora To Higher Things
Established	1429 (1429)
Local authority	Angus Council
Head Girls	Sadie Seaman, Freya Minty
Rector	Archie Bathgate
Head Boy	Oliver Yates
Staff	~50
Age	11 to 18
Enrolment	~600
Houses	Dun, Farnell and Menmuir
Colour(s)	Scarlet, blue and gold
Feeder schools	Andover, Edzell, Lethnot, Maisondieu, Stracathro and Tarfside
Website	http://www.brechinhigh.angus.sch.uk

Admissions

It has approximately 660 students, and a staff of 50. The school has a relationship with the town's cathedral stretching back to the early 15th century,[1] with the formation of the choir school.

Feeder primary schools include two in Brechin: Andover and Maisondieu and four rural schools: Edzell, Lethnot, Stracathro, and Tarfside.[2]

Historically, school pupils were split into four houses: Dalhousie, Maisondieu, Kinnaird and Trinity (named after local country estates) with siblings always being placed in the same house but this system was recently changed and pupils are now split between houses Dun, Farnell and Menmuir (named after local villages).

The school is in the north-west of Brechin, near the A90 bypass, and next to a disused railway line.

Alumni

Watson-Watt memorial at Stowe Nine Churches in Northamptonshire for his Daventry Experiment in 1935 with Arnold Frederic Wilkins

• Dame Anne Begg MP, Labour Member of Parliament from 1997-2015 for Aberdeen South.[3]
• Dorothy Geddes, FRCS OBE, Professor of Oral Biology at the University of Glasgow and the first woman to hold a chair in dentistry.[4]
• John Gillies LLD FRS FRSE FSA, Historiographer Royal, 1793-1836.[5]
• Thomas Guthrie DD, founder of the Ragged Schools of Scotland and Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland, 1862.[6]
• William Guthrie, eighteenth-century historian and geographer.[7]
• Kirstene Hair, Conservative Member of Parliament from 2017-19 for Angus.
• Catherine Hollingworth OBE, pioneering speech and drama therapist.[8]
• Joseph Fairweather Lamb FRSE, Chandos Professor of Physiology at the University of St Andrews.
• David Low, Bishop of Ross and Argyll, 1819-1838 and Bishop of Moray, 1838-1850.[9]
• George Low, naturalist.[10]
• Alexander Ferrier Mitchell DD LLD, Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of St Andrews and Moderator of the Church of Scotland.
• David Myles, Conservative Member of Parliament from 1979-83 for Banffshire.
• John Pringle Nichol LLD FRSE, Regius Professor of Astronomy at the University of Glasgow.[11]
• Robin Orr CBE, composer, professor of music and founder chairman of Scottish Opera.[12]
• James Small DSc MRIA FRSE, Professor of Botany at Queen's University Belfast.[13]
• Peter Spence, industrial chemist and pioneering alum manufacturer.[14]
• Sir Robert Watson-Watt KCB FRS FRAeS, inventor of radar.
• David Will CBE, Vice-President from 1990-2007 of FIFA.

References

1. Brechin High School Website Archived 10 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine About the school, retrieved on 29 June 2008
2. Brechin High School Website Archived 11 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine Associated Primaries, retrieved on 14 May 2011
3. "Vote 2001: Candidates". BBC News. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
4. University of Glasgow Story
5. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
6. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
7. Scottish Geographical Magazine
8. Commemorative Plaque, Aberdeen
9. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
10. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
11. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
12. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
13. Irish Naturalists' Journal 12, 3, 49-50.
14. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

External links

• Brechin High School - official website
• Brechin High's on Scottish Schools Online