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Established
  
1429

Rector
  
Archie Bathgate

Head Girl
  
Ellie Hill

Phone
  
+44 1356 622135

Local authority
  
Angus

Type
  
Comprehensive

Head Boy
  
Harry Runcie

Address
  
Brechin DD9 6LB, UK

Founded
  
1429

Brechin High School

Location
  
Duke Street Brechin Angus DD9 6LB Scotland

Motto
  
Ad Altiora; To Higher Things

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

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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, 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.

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

  • Dame Anne Begg MP, Labour Member of Parliament since 1997 for Aberdeen South.
  • Dorothy Geddes, FRCS OBE, Professor of Oral Biology at the University of Glasgow and the first woman to hold a chair in dentistry.
  • John Gillies LLD FRS FRSE FSA, Historiographer Royal, 1793-1836.
  • Thomas Guthrie DD, founder of the Ragged Schools of Scotland and Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland, 1862.
  • William Guthrie, eighteenth century historian and geographer.
  • Catherine Hollingworth OBE, pioneering speech and drama therapist.
  • 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.
  • George Low, naturalist.
  • 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.
  • Robin Orr CBE, composer, professor of music and founder chairman of Scottish Opera.
  • James Small DSc MRIA FRSE, Professor of Botany at Queen's University Belfast.
  • Peter Spence, industrial chemist and pioneering alum manufacturer.
  • Sir Robert Watson-Watt KCB FRS FRAeS, inventor of radar.
  • David Will CBE, Vice-President from 1990-2007 of FIFA.

    • References

    Brechin High School Wikipedia
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