List of people educated at Edinburgh Academy explained
Former pupils of the Edinburgh Academy in Edinburgh. They include the following individuals.
Arts and culture
Actors
Artists, architects and designers
Authors, poets and dramatists
- R. M. Ballantyne, children's author (EA 1835-37)
- John Crommelin-Brown, poet, headmaster (EA 1895-97)
- Gordon Honeycombe, author, playwright and stage actor, TV newscaster (EA 1947-55)
- Andrew Lang, Scottish poet and novelist (EA 1854-61)
- Alan Melville, (EA 1925-27)
- Sarah Pinborough, young adult fiction and adult thriller writer (EA 1988-90)
- Robert Louis Stevenson, writer (EA 1861-63)
- J. I. M. Stewart (as Michael Innes), university professor and mystery writer (EA 1913-24)
Entertainers
Music
Business people
Clergy
Convicted Criminals
- David Jenkins, convicted felon and drug smuggler (1987), Olympic athlete (EA 1958-1969)
Explorers
Lawyers and judges
- William Edmondstoune Aytoun
- John Balfour, 1st Baron Kinross
- Colin Blackburn, Baron Blackburn
- John Cameron, Lord Cameron
- Kenneth Cameron, Baron Cameron of Lochbroom
- Charles Clark
- James Avon Clyde, Lord Clyde[3]
- James Clyde, Baron Clyde, Lord Clyde of Briglands
- James Latham Clyde, Lord Clyde
- David Dundas, Lord Dundas
- Derek Emslie, Lord Kingarth
- Nigel Emslie, Lord Emslie, former judge on the Supreme Courts of Scotland
- Charlie Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton, Lord Chancellor
- Robert Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay, Lord Chancellor
- William Gloag
- Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, Lord Chancellor
- David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead
- Malcolm Innes of Edingight
- Andrew Jameson, Lord Ardwall
- Alan Johnston, Lord Johnston
- Henry Keith, Baron Keith of Kinkel
- John Macdonald, Lord Kingsburgh
- Charles Murray, Lord Murray
- Charles Pearson, Lord Pearson
- William John Peterswald, Chief Commissioner of Police of the Colony of South Australia
- William Prosser, Lord Prosser
- James Reid, politician and Law Lord
- Alexander Stevenson
- Angus Stewart, Lord Stewart
- Gordon Stott, Lord Stott
- Colin Sutherland, Lord Carloway
- Sir Frederick Thomson, 1st Baronet
- Robert Younger, Baron Blanesburgh
Politicians and diplomats
- Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, Lord Chancellor, 'Father of the Territorial Army' (EA 1866-72)
- Alick Buchanan-Smith
- Tam Dalyell, Father of the House of Commons 2001-05
- Andrew Gilchrist
- Andrew Henderson Leith Fraser
- John Ernest Buttery Hotson
- David Robert Lyall
- Sir James Marjoribanks, career diplomat who presented Britain's successful application to join the European Community in 1967
- Mike Pringle
- Alexander Ramsay-Gibson-Maitland
- Sir Ninian Stephen, Governor General of Australia
- Sir Frederick Thomson, 1st Baronet
- Iain Vallance, Baron Vallance of Tummel
- James Wemyss, New Zealand member of parliament[4]
- George Younger, 1st Viscount Younger of Leckie, (EA 1864-67)
Scientists, educators and academics
- Thomas Anderson
- Lewis Campbell
- Frederick M Bailey, plant collector, discoverer of Meconopsis baileyi
- Isaac Bayley Balfour, botanist (1853-1922)
- Sir George Beilby, FRS. Chemical manufacturer
- Joseph Bell, now recognised as the model for Sherlock Holmes.
- John McConnell Black
- Hugh Blackburn
- John Chiene, surgeon
- Peter Craigie, biblical scholar
- William Cunningham, economist
- A. R. B. Haldane
- John Scott Haldane, physiologist (EA 1870-76)
- Colin Hardie
- Andrew Fergus Hewat, psychiatrist
- Fleeming Jenkin, professor of engineering, (EA 1875-81)
- Charles Kemball
- Sunil Khilnani
- Norman Boyd Kinnear
- John Michael Kosterlitz
- Robert Scott Lauder jnr., M.D.,(Edinburgh), Physician at Morningside Lunatic Asylum, etc., (EA 1852-8)
- Arthur Pillans Laurie
- Wallace Lindsay
- Aeneas James George Mackay
- Colin Mair
- James Clerk Maxwell, physicist, (EA 1841-47)
- William McNab, botanist
- Alan Munro, immunologist and master of Christ's College, Cambridge
- James Henry Skene, author, traveller and diplomat, (EA 1824-26)
- Archibald Campbell Swinton
- Peter Guthrie Tait, physicist, (EA 1841-47).
- Iain Torrance, President of Princeton Theological Seminary, (EA 1954-63)
- D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, mathematical biologist, (EA 1870-77)
- Adrian Woodruffe-Peacock, ecologist
- Alexander Wood
Soldiers
Victoria Cross recipients
Nine Edinburgh Academy alumni have received the Victoria Cross.[5]
Sport
- James Balfour-Melville (1882–1915), cricketer
- Leslie Balfour-Melville (1854–1937), an outstanding all-round amateur sportsman
- Mike Blair, Scottish Rugby International
- Tom Brown
- Charles Campbell, captain of Scotland's football team in the 19th century
- Chris Dean, Edinburgh Rugby and Scotland Sevens Rugby Cap
- Henry Fairweather, cricketer
- Jamie Farndale, Scotland Rugby 7's International
- Charles Fraser, cricketer
- George Gallie
- Sir James Angus Gillan, Olympic oarsman, gold-medallist 1908 and 1912 (EA 1896-1905)
- Alex Harris, footballer
- Nick Hillyard, cricketer
- Gilbert Hole, cricketer and cricket administrator
- David Jenkins, Olympian athlete; 400 meter world record holder
- Hubert Johnston, cricketer
- Blair Kinghorn, rugby player, Edinburgh Rugby, Scotland u20's
- Bill Maclagan, Scotland Rugby International
- William Maitland, cricketer
- Francis Moncreiff
- Robert Miln Neill, Scotland and Great Britain Rugby International
- John Murray, cricketer
- Patrick Oliphant, cricketer
- Norman Noble, cricketer
- Robert Ranken, cricketer
- Ross Rennie, Scotland Rugby International
- Alexander Stevenson, cricketer
- James Stevenson, cricketer
- John Guthrie Tait
- Frederick Guthrie Tait, son of Peter Guthrie Tait, soldier and gifted amateur golfer, (EA 1881-83)
- Ben Tod, cricketer and rugby player
- Bungy Watson, England rugby international
- Iain Woolward, Olympian, sailing
References
- https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0852370/bio Frank Taylor IMDb
- http://www.edinburghacademy.org.uk/seniorprospectus/alumni/mcqueen.htm Edinburgh Academy Alumni – Catherine McQueen
- News: Ovituary . . London . 17 June 1944 . 49885 . 6 . The Times Digital Archive . 11 January 2011.
- Web site: James Balfour Wemyss . Cambridge Alumni Database . 27 November 2022.
- Web site: Edinburgh Academy Website - list of VC holders . 26 March 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140327234654/http://www.edinburghacademy.org.uk/seniorprospectus/alumni/vcs.htm . 27 March 2014 . dead .
- VCs of the First World War: Gerald Giddon
