Cargilfield Preparatory School

Cargilfield Preparatory School
Address
45 Gamekeeper's Road Edinburgh , EH4 6HU Scotland
Coordinates	55.96971°N 3.30004°W / 55.96971; -3.30004
Information
Type	Preparatory school Day & Boarding School
Motto	Deo Custode ("With God as [a] guardian")
Religious affiliation(s)	Church of Scotland
Established	1873
Founder	Rev Daniel Charles Darnell[1]
Headmaster	Rob Taylor
Gender	Co-educational
Age	3 to 13
Enrolment	322
Houses	Bruce, Graham, Stuart, Wallace,
Colour(s)	Red, Navy blue, White
Website	http://www.cargilfield.com/
Listed Building – Category B
Official name	45 Gamekeeper’s Road, Cargilfield School, Including Chapel, Nursery, Cricket Pavilion, Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Gates[2]
Designated	24 February 1997; 27 years ago (1997-02-24)[2]
Reference no.	LB43929[2]

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^[3] an Episcopalian and former master at Rugby School^[4] 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.^[5]

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.^[6] The school responded that it had rectified this situation as soon as it was made aware of it, and apologised.^[7]

The school has reached the finals of the UKMT Team Mathematics Challenge competition in five consecutive years (2013,^[8] 2014, ^[9] 2015, ^[10] 2016, and ^[11] 2017.^[12] )

Notable alumni

See also Category:People educated at Cargilfield School

• 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^[13]
• Sandy Gunn, photographic reconnaissance Spitfire pilot, executed in 1944 after the Great Escape^[14]
• 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^[15]
• 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

References

1. Granton History site discussing street name origins, which cites the Rev Darnell as having founded the school
2. Historic Environment Scotland. "45 Gamekeeper's Road, Cargilfield School, Including Chapel, Nursery, Cricket Pavilion, Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Gates (Category B Listed Building) (LB43929)". Retrieved 17 July 2022.
3. Leinster-Mackay, Donald (15 November 1984). The Rise of the English Prep School. Falmer Press Ltd. ISBN 0905273745.
4. Further Traditions of Trinity and Leith by Joyce Wallace ISBN 0-85976-282-3
5. Schofield, Kevin (5 April 2005). "Ditching homework adds up to better grades". The Scotsman. Archived from the original on 18 May 2007. Retrieved 28 May 2007.
6. "Government 'names and shames' minimum wage underpayers". BBC. 8 June 2014. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
7. "Edinburgh school 'failed to pay minimum wage'". The Scotsman. 9 June 2014. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
8. UK Mathematics Trust Yearbook 2012-2013. United Kingdom Mathematics Trust. 2014. ISBN 9781906001216. OCLC 922596589.
9. UK Mathematics Trust Yearbook 2013-2014. United Kingdom Mathematics Trust. 2015. ISBN 978-1-906001-23-0.
10. Uk mathematics trust yearbook 2014-2015. United Kingdom Mathematics Trust. 2016. ISBN 978-1906001261.
11. UK Mathematics Trust Yearbook 2015-2016. United Kingdom Mathematics Trust. 2017. ISBN 978-1906001322.
12. "Team Maths Challenge National Final 2017" (PDF). UKMT. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 June 2017. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
13. Letters from Flanders, written by 2nd Lieut. A. D. Gillespie, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, to his home people; (1916)
14. 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.
15. Logie Bruce Lockhart, Now and Then, This and That (Larks Press, 2013), p. 27

External links

• Official Website
• Profile on the Independent Schools Council website
• Media related to Cargilfield School at Wikimedia Commons