Cargilfield Preparatory School Explained

Cargilfield Preparatory School
Coordinates:	55.9697°N -3.3°W
Motto:	Deo Custode ("With God as [a] guardian")
Established:	1873
Type:	Preparatory school Day & Boarding School
Religious Affiliation:	Church of Scotland
Head Label:	Headmaster
Head:	Rob Taylor
Founder:	Rev Daniel Charles Darnell^[1]
Address:	45 Gamekeeper's Road
City:	Edinburgh
Country:	Scotland
Postcode:	EH4 6HU
Enrolment:	322
Gender:	Co-educational
Lower Age:	3
Upper Age:	13
Houses:	Bruce, Graham, Stuart, Wallace,
Colours:	Red, Navy blue, White
Website:	http://www.cargilfield.com/ Embed: yes Designation1: Category B Designation1 Offname: 45 Gamekeeper’s Road, Cargilfield School, Including Chapel, Nursery, Cricket Pavilion, Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Gates Designation1 Number: LB43929

Cargilfield Preparatory School is a Scottish private co-educational boarding and prep school in Edinburgh, Scotland.

History

Cargilfield was founded in 1873 by Rev Daniel Charles Darnell^[2] an Episcopalian and former master at Rugby School^[3] 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.^[4]

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.^[5] The school responded that it had rectified this situation as soon as it was made aware of it, and apologised.^[6]

The school has reached the finals of the UKMT Team Mathematics Challenge competition in five consecutive years (2013,^[7] 2014,^[8] 2015,^[9] 2016, and ^[10] 2017.^[11])

Notable alumni

See also

• 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^[12]
• Sandy Gunn, photographic reconnaissance Spitfire pilot, executed in 1944 after the Great Escape^[13]
• 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^[14]
• 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

External links

• Official Website
• Profile on the Independent Schools Council website

Notes and References

1. http://www.grantonhistory.org/streets/trinity.htm Granton History site discussing street name origins, which cites the Rev Darnell as having founded the school
2. Book: Leinster-Mackay , Donald . The Rise of the English Prep School . Falmer Press Ltd . 15 Nov 1984 . 0905273745 .
3. Further Traditions of Trinity and Leith by Joyce Wallace ISBN 0-85976-282-3
4. News: Schofield. Kevin. Ditching homework adds up to better grades. The Scotsman. 2005-04-05. 2007-05-28. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20070518031233/http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=357942005. 18 May 2007. dmy-all.
5. News: Government 'names and shames' minimum wage underpayers . BBC . 8 June 2014 . 8 June 2014.
6. News: Edinburgh school 'failed to pay minimum wage' . The Scotsman . 9 June 2014 . 29 August 2014.
7. Book: UK Mathematics Trust Yearbook 2012-2013.. 2014. United Kingdom Mathematics Trust. 9781906001216. 922596589.
8. Book: UK Mathematics Trust Yearbook 2013-2014.. 2015. United Kingdom Mathematics Trust. 978-1-906001-23-0.
9. Book: Uk mathematics trust yearbook 2014-2015.. 2016. United Kingdom Mathematics Trust. 978-1906001261.
10. Book: UK Mathematics Trust Yearbook 2015-2016.. 2017. United Kingdom Mathematics Trust. 978-1906001322.
11. News: Team Maths Challenge National Final 2017 . UKMT . 19 June 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170619202906/https://www.ukmt.org.uk/team-challenges/team-challenge/TMCNationalFinal2017Schools.pdf . 19 June 2017.
12. https://archive.org/stream/lettersfromfland00gilluoft#page/n13/mode/2up/search/Cunningham Letters from Flanders, written by 2nd Lieut. A. D. Gillespie, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, to his home people; (1916)
13. Cargilfield School Website (https://www.cargilfield.com/pre-prep/news/post.php?s=2019-09-27-alastair-sandy-gunn-would-have-been-100) Alastair 'Sandy' Gunn would have been 100 'Great Escape' War Hero FP remembered." "Old boy Alastair ‘Sandy’ Gunn’s name shines brightly on our War Memorial in Chapel this morning." 27 September 2019.
14. Logie Bruce Lockhart, Now and Then, This and That (Larks Press, 2013), p. 27