'A great educational tradition' : a history of Hutchesons' Grammar School / by Brian R. W. Lockhart.

Lockhart, Brian R. W., author

Edinburgh : Birlinn, 2015.

xix, 388 pages : photographs (black and white and colour) ; 25 cm.

Includes index.

Glasgow and the Hutchesons -- Mortification deeds and heritable properties -- The hospital school and its first masters -- The final years of the hospital school -- Recollections of the hospital school -- A hospital school timeline, 1639-1885 -- Heads and principals of the modern schools -- Recollections of Hutchesons' Girls' Grammar School -- Recollections of Hutchesons' Boys' Grammar School -- Timeline of the modern schools -- FPs who rejoined the school community -- Biographies of senior staff -- Biographies of prominent FPs -- Hutchesons' today -- Genealogy of the founders -- Hutchie heraldry -- Hutchesons' Grammar School: the tartan -- Legacies and donations to which no special condition was attached -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of former pupils -- Index of staff and governors -- General index.

This is the story of Hutchesons' Grammar School in Glasgow from the time of its foundation in 1641 until recent days when it has become one of the largest and most academically successful schools in Scotland.

373.4123

English

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