Cargilfield Preparatory School is a Scottish private co-educational boarding and prep school in

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, Scotland.

History

Cargilfield was founded in 1873 by Rev Daniel Charles Darnell an Episcopalian and former master at

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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

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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. In the period 2003–2012, the headmaster was John Elder. Among the changes he made to the school was the abolition of

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. 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. The school responded that it had rectified this situation as soon as it was made aware of it, and apologised. The school has reached the finals of the UKMT Team Mathematics Challenge competition in five consecutive years (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017. )

Notable alumni

:''See also :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 rowerLetters from Flanders, written by 2nd Lieut. A. D. Gillespie, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, to his home people; (1916)
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pilot, executed in 1944 after the Great Escape * 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

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footballer and headmasterLogie Bruce Lockhart, ''Now and Then, This and That'' (Larks Press, 2013), p. 27 * 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

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politician. * George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie (1931-2003),

politician and banker

References

External links

Official Website

Profile
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