Craigmount School was a

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originally for boys, but for most of its history for girls, in

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. It opened in 1874 and closed in 1966.

History

Craigmount was founded in Edinburgh in 1874 as a school for boys. In 1884, it was re-opened as a boarding school for girls. During the Second World War and the immediate post-war years (from 1939 to 1952), the school was at

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. At the end of the summer term, 1952, it moved to

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in the

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, leasing Minto House. In 1962, Minto House was purchased for £20,000. In 1966, the school was closed.

Notable alumni

Thomas Maule Guthrie Thomas Maule Guthrie (1870 – 30 March 1943) was a Scottish Liberal Party politician. He was educated at Craigmount School, Edinburgh.''The Liberal year book'', Volume 18, Page 62, 1922 (Liberal Publication Dept:Great Britain) He was elected a ...

, (died 30 March 1943) was a Scottish

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politician. *

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publishing house. * Mason Scott, rugby union international for England * William Martin Scott, rugby union international for England * Henry Springmann, rugby union international for England *

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, Scottish businessman and politicianGeorge Edward Cokayne, Vicary Gibbs, ''The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom: extant, extinct, or dormant, Volume 13'', page 375 Editors: Vicary Gibbs, Baron Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis Howard de Walden; (The St. Catherine press, ltd.) 1940

References

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