Talk:Royal High School (Edinburgh)

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Contents 1 WP Schools 2 Augustinian origin 3 George Campbell Hay 4 George Smuga

[edit] WP Schools

Reassessed to high importance based on age. Article needs referencing to make a B and more topics. You must have an impressive alumni list? Welcome again Victuallers 14:29, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Augustinian origin

I'm a former pupil and have never heard of a Franciscan connection to the school or to Holyrood Abbey, which predated the Franciscan order by a century. I've changed 'Franciscan monks' to 'Augustinian canons', with whom the early school was associated, and have cited Dr. Murray's official school history as a source. Lachrie 17:52, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] George Campbell Hay

I'm deleting the poet George Campbell Hay from the alumni list. He's doubtful because he's known for having been an Old Fettesian. Hay's Wikipedia entry says: 'He was educated at Fettes College (which he despised) and the University of Oxford.' He did bequeath his library to RHS, but I think that's because he was a teacher rather than a pupil. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says nothing about Hay's schooling, only about his teaching, which included a stint at RHS: 'In 1934 Hay won a major scholarship in classics and took a degree at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, afterwards taking a teacher's training course at Edinburgh and teaching briefly at the Royal High School there.' Some institutions adopt a loose definition of alumni which includes former teachers, so I'm not one hundred per cent sure deleting him from the list is the right thing to do here. Suggestions would be good. Lachrie 14:03, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] George Smuga

He's not there. I think he's on a sabbatical. Someone should put that in... J8149ZZ (talk) 11:00, 10 March 2008 (UTC)