List of people educated at Perth Academy
Perth Academy is a non-denominational state school in Perth, Scotland.
Alumni[]
Image | Name | Class year | Notability | Reference(s) |
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— | Ian Abbot | Poet | [1] | |
— | Arthur Kinmond Bell | Distiller and philanthropist | [2] | |
— | James Bisset | Artist, manufacturer, writer, collector, art dealer and poet | [3] | |
— | Francis Black | Politician serving in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba | [4] | |
— | Neil Cameron, Baron Cameron of Balhousie | Senior officer in Royal Air Force | [5] | |
— | John Forbes Cameron | Mathematician, academic and academic administrator | [6] | |
Aileen Campbell | Scottish Government Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Local Government | [7] | ||
Colin Campbell | British Army officer and colonial governor | [8] | ||
— | Iain Donald Campbell | Biophysicist and academic | [9] | |
— | Patrick Campbell | Vice-admiral in the Royal Navy | [10] | |
— | Alastair Cram | Mountaineer, lawyer and British Army officer | [11] | |
Arthur Dewar, Lord Dewar | Member of UK parliament and judge | [12] | ||
— | Gordon Duff | Medical scientist and academic | [13] | |
Thomas Duncan | Portrait and historical painter | [14] | ||
[[File:|center|100x75px|David Edward]] | David Edward | Lawyer and academic, and former Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Communities | ||
— | Robert Fairbairn | Banker and cricketer | [15] | |
— | John Forfar | Paediatrician and academic | [16] | |
Patrick Geddes | Biologist, sociologist, geographer, philanthropist and pioneering town planner | [17] | ||
Stephen Gethins | Member of UK parliament | [18] | ||
Neil A. R. Gow | Professor of Microbiology and deputy Vice Chancellor at the University of Exeter | [19] | ||
— | Camilla Hattersley | Olympic swimmer | [20] | |
— | Mary Packer Harris | Artist and art teacher | [21] | |
David Octavius Hill | Painter and arts activist | [22] | ||
— | Edward Lindsay Ince | Mathematician | [23] | |
— | William Keiller | Anatomist | [24] | |
Henry Littlejohn | Surgeon, forensic scientist and public health official | [25] | ||
— | David Low | Agriculturalist | [26] | |
Fred MacAulay | Comedian | [27] | ||
— | Robert MacDonald | Minister of the Free Church of Scotland | ||
— | James MacGregor | Minister of the Church of Scotland | [28] | |
— | John Sturgeon Mackay | Mathematician and academic author | [29] | |
— | George Mathewson | Chairman of Royal Bank of Scotland | [30] | |
Patrick Matthew | Grain merchant, fruit farmer, forester, and landowner | [31] | ||
— | James McGhie, Lord McGhie | Chairman of the Scottish Land Court and President of the Lands Tribunal for Scotland, and a Senator of the College of Justice | ||
— | Thomas McWhannell | Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly | [32] | |
— | James Miller | Architect | [33] | |
— | Stephen Milne | Olympic swimmer | [34] | |
— | Robert MacGregor Mitchell, Lord MacGregor Mitchell | Lawyer, judge and member of UK parliament | ||
Robert Pullar | Liberal politician | [35] | ||
— | John Monteath Robertson | Chemist and crystallographer | [36] | |
— | Ronald Foote Robertson | President of the British Medical Association | [37] | |
— | Condie Sandeman | Advocate | [38] | |
— | Philip Scott | Professional football | ||
— | Rhod Sharp | Broadcaster | [39] | |
— | Jack Shaw | Businessman, former chairman of the board of directors and Governor of the Bank of Scotland | [40] | |
Richard Simpson | Member of the Scottish Parliament | [41] | ||
— | Mili Smith | Professional curler | [42] | |
Duncan Sommerville | Mathematician and astronomer | [43] | ||
William Soutar | Poet and diarist | [44] | ||
— | Brian Souter | Billionaire businessman | [45] | |
James Stewart | Physician and missionary | [46] | ||
— | David Kinnear Thomson | Chairman and president of Peter Thomson (Perth) Limited | ||
— | William Thomson | Mathematician and physicist | [47] | |
— | Anthony Toft | President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh | [48] | |
John Wishart | Mathematician and agricultural statistician | [49] | ||
— | Sandy Wylie, Lord Kinclaven | Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland |
References[]
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- ^ Weir, Ronald B. "Bell, Arthur". Oxford DNB. Oxford University Press.
- ^ Maxine, Berg (1998). "Inventors of the World of Goods". In Bruland, Kristine; O'Brien, Patrick (eds.). From Family Firms to Corporate Capitalism. Clarendon Press. p. 28. ISBN 978-0-19-829046-9. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
- ^ "Memorable Manitobans: Francis Mollison Black (1870-1941)". Manitoba Historical Society. 8 June 2018. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
- ^ "Sgt. N Cameron". Battle of Britain London Monument. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
- ^ "Cambridge Mathematical Tripos". The Dundee Courier & Argus (14030). 15 June 1898. p. 5.
- ^ "Aileen Campbell MSP". www.gov.scot. Scottish Government. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
- ^ Stephens, Henry Morse (1886). Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 8. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 350–351. . In
- ^ "Professor Iain Campbell". The Times. 13 May 2014. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
- ^ Laughton, John Knox (1886). Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 8. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 390–391. . In
- ^ "Soldier-Lawyer Hero's New Honour". Dundee Courier. 2 November 1946. p. 3.
- ^ Mortimore, Roger; Blick, Andrew, eds. (2018). Butler's British Political Facts. Palgrave MacMillan. p. 147. ISBN 978-1-137-56709-3. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
- ^ "Duff, Sir Gordon (William)". Who's Who 2018. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2017. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.43452.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 671. .
- ^ The Bankers' Who's who. Indian Business Publications. 1964. p. 434. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
- ^ David Barr; Neville Belton (22 August 2020). "Obituary: Professor John Forfar, paediatrician". The Scotsman. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
- ^ Waterston, Charles D; Macmillan Shearer, A (July 2006). Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783-2002: Biographical Index (PDF). I. Edinburgh: The Royal Society of Edinburgh. p. 347. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 October 2006. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
- ^ "Stephen Gethins (SNP)". Kingdom FM. DC Thomson Media. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
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- ^ Advertiser, Perthshire (22 April 2016). "Dreams have come true for Perth swimmer Camilla Hattersley (21)". Daily Record. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
- ^ Tuck, Ruth (1996). "Harris, Mary Packer (1891–1978)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
- ^ "David Octavius Hill RSA, his View from a Bridge in PerthRoyal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture". Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture. 20 May 2020. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
- ^ Cohn, P. M. "Ince, Edward Lindsay (1891–1941), mathematician". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/51632.
- ^ Burns, OR; Campbell, H.G. (1999). "The extraordinary influences of two British physicians on medical education and practice in Texas at the turn of the 20th Century" (PDF). Vesalius : Acta Internationales Historiae Medicinae. University of Paris. 5 (2): 79–84. PMID 11624232. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
- ^ "Sir Henry D. Littlejohn, M.D., LL.D.Edin., F.R.C.S.E". British Medical Journal. 2 (2806): 648–650. 10 October 1914. ISSN 0007-1447. PMC 2299842.
- ^ Waterston, Charles D; Macmillan Shearer, A (July 2006). Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783-2002: Biographical Index (PDF). II. Edinburgh: The Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 October 2006. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
- ^ "Fred MacAulay". BBC Radio Scotland. BBC. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
- ^ Ritchie, Lionel Alexander (23 September 2004). "MacGregor, James (1832–1910)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34729. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Gibson, George A. (1914). "John Sturgeon Mackay, M.A., LL.D." mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk. University of St Andrews. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
- ^ "Appointment of non-executive director". m.stagecoachgroup.com. Stagecoach Group. 8 May 2006. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
- ^ Calman, WT (1912) "Patrick Matthew of Gourdiehill, Naturalist", Handbook and Guide to Dundee and District, AW Paton and AH Millar (Eds), the British Association for the Advancement of Science, pp. 451-7 (see The Patrick Matthew Project » More On Matthew
- ^ "McWhannell, Thomas". www.parliament.qld.gov.au. 6 December 2017. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
- ^ "James Miller". www.scottisharchitects.org.uk. RCAMHS. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
- ^ Gallagher, Matthew (9 February 2016). "Perth swim star Stephen Milne hopes to reap benefits of pre-Olympic training trip to Oz". Daily Record. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
- ^ Pullar, Robert (23 September 2004). "Pullar, Sir Robert (1828–1912)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/61313. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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(help) - ^ "Ronald Foote Robertson | Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh". www.rcpe.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
- ^ Who Was Who 1929–1940, p. 1193.
- ^ "Perth Date for BBC Presenter, Sharp". AllMediaScotland.com. 19 June 2012. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
- ^ Professor Tom Lee (2005). Giving an Account – Life Histories of Four Eminent CAs (PDF). Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. pp. 167–223. ISBN 1-904574-15-7. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
- ^ "Personal Information: Richard Simpson". Scottish Parliament website. Archived from the original on 18 July 2012. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
- ^ "Perth Academy's Mili Smith joins Scottish Schools' curling team". www.scotsman.com. 3 January 2017. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
- ^ "Duncan MacLaren Young Sommerville". MacTutor. University of St Andrews. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
- ^ "William Soutar (1898 – 1943)". The University of Edinburgh. 31 May 2017. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
- ^ Angus, Craig (6 May 2016). "Sir Brian Souter visited old school Perth Academy as part of an enterprise month". Daily Record. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
- ^ Ross, Andrew C. (25 May 2006). "Stewart, James (1831–1905)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36295. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "William Thomson". MacTutor. University of St. Andrews. 2007. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
- ^ "Anthony Douglas Toft, CBE". artuk.org. Art UK. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
- ^ "John Wishart". MacTutor. University of St. Andrews. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
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