Cargilfield Preparatory School is a Scottish private co-educational boarding and prep school in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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45 Gamekeeper's Road , EH4 6HU Scotland | |
| Coordinates | 55°58′11″N 3°18′00″W / 55.96971°N 3.30004°W |
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| Type | Preparatory school Day & Boarding School |
| Motto | Deo Custode ("With God as [a] guardian") |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Church of Scotland |
| Established | 1873 |
| Founder | Rev Daniel Charles Darnell[1] |
| Headmaster | Rob Taylor |
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Age | 3 to 13 |
| Enrolment | 322 |
| Houses | Bruce, Graham, Stuart, Wallace, |
| Colour(s) | Red, Navy blue, White |
| Website | http://www.cargilfield.com/ |
Listed Building – Category B | |
| Official name | 45 Gamekeeper’s Road, Cargilfield School, Including Chapel, Nursery, Cricket Pavilion, Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Gates[2] |
| Designated | 24 February 1997[2] |
| Reference no. | LB43929[2] |
History
Cargilfield was founded in 1873 by Rev Daniel Charles Darnell[3] an Episcopalian and former master at Rugby School[4] 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 Trinity 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.[1]
In the period 2003–2012, the headmaster was John Elder. Among the changes he made to the school was the abolition of homework.[5]
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.[6] The school responded that it had rectified this situation as soon as it was made aware of it, and apologised.[7]
The school has reached the finals of the UKMT Team Mathematics Challenge competition in five consecutive years (2013,[8]2014,[9]2015,[10]2016, and [11]2017.[12])
Notable alumni
- 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 rower[13]
- Sandy Gunn, photographic reconnaissance Spitfire pilot, executed in 1944 after the Great Escape[14]
- 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 rugby union footballer and headmaster[15]
- 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 Conservative politician.
- George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie (1931-2003), Conservative politician and banker
References
External links
- Official Website
- Profile on the Independent Schools Council website
Media related to Cargilfield School at Wikimedia Commons
