Kirkcudbright Academy

Kirkcudbright Academy
Address
St Marys Wynd Kirkcudbright , Dumfries and Galloway , DG6 4JN Scotland
Coordinates	54.8353°N 4.0577°W / 54.8353; -4.0577
Information
Motto	Radicem Firmant Frondes (from the roots comes strength)
Established	By 1582 (1582)
School district	Kirkcudbrightshire
Rector	A Tuffery
Gender	Mixed
Enrolment	454
Website	http://www.kirkcudbrightacademy.website

Kirkcudbright Academy is a state funded, six-year secondary school in Kirkcudbright, Scotland with about 450 pupils and 87 staff including teaching, support and administration.

Notable alumni

See also: Category:People educated at Kirkcudbright Academy

• Jennie Adamson was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. She sat in the House of Commons from 1938 to 1946, and served as a junior minister in Clement Attlee's post-war Labour government.
• Samual Anderson first settler in Westernport, Victoria
• John Brown of Wamphray, an exiled minister of the Church of Scotland, was the most important Scottish theologian of the period known as the Killing Time (1660–1688). He was one of the strongest defenders of the Covenanter cause. Among many books he wrote while residing in Holland, Brown's magnum opus is his De Causa Dei contra Antisabbatarios (2 volumes 4to, Rotterdam, 1674, 1676). Brown's life is detailed in Thomas Lockerby's book "A Sketch of the Life of the Rev. John Brown, Sometime Minister ... in Wamphray: With Notes and a Historical Appendix"
• Katrina Bryan, actress
• Malcolm Caldwell, (1931-1978) academic and Marxist writer, twice chair of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Caldwell was murdered, under mysterious circumstances, a few hours after meeting Pol Pot in Cambodia. Was Dux of the academy in 1949. [1]
• Finlay Carson, Scottish Conservative Party MSP for the Galloway and West Dumfries constituency
• Robert Carson, leading expert on Roman coins, and Keeper of Coins and Medals at the British Museum from 1978 to 1983
• John Corrie, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party politician, former MP & MEP
• David Coulthard, former Formula One racing driver
• James Craik was Physician General (precursor of the Surgeon General) of the United States Army, and George Washington's personal physician and close friend.
• John Duncan, Adventurer, explorer and author
• John Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine of Rerrick, banker, Governor of Northern Ireland
• Dr Maxwell Garthshore, Scottish physician who practiced as an Accoucheur and was a Fellow of the Royal Society
• Bazil Gordon, tobacco merchant who by the time of his death was believed to be America's richest man and its first ever millionaire
• Thomas Gordon, Scottish writer and Commonwealth man
• Sir Robin Gray, former MP and 23rd Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives
• William Greggan, Olympian who won a silver medal as a member of the Liverpool Police team in the Tug of war at the 1908 Summer Olympics
• George Henry, Glasgow Boys Artist
• Edward Atkinson Hornel, painter
• Innes Ireland, former Formula One racing driver. Winner of the 1961 United States Grand Prix
• David S. Kennedy, former New York Merchant Banker - in the early 1800s his bank Kennedy & Maitland was known as one of the "greatest commercial houses in the United States". Served in several roles including as the 23rd President in the charitable Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York.
• George Kerr politician
• Robert Lenox, brother of David above, American businessman and property investor after whom the Lenox Hill neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City is named. As well as being one of the preeminent merchants of his day, Lenox held numerous civil positions including two periods as an Alderman of New York; being one of the founders of the Lying-in Hospital, along with Alexander Hamilton, and later its president; President of New York Chamber of Commerce and a trustee of Princeton College. On his death, Lenox's fortune passed to his only surviving son James Lenox, a noted bibliophile and philanthropist, who used the fortune to create the Lenox Library (now part of the New York Public Library) and to found the Presbyterian Hospital. Both the Lying-in Hospital and the Presbyterian Hospital are now, following a series of mergers, incorporated within the NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital.
• Bert MacLachlan, former professional football player who played for Aston Villa F.C., Aberdeen F.C. and Heart of Midlothian F.C.
• David MacMyn, former rugby union international, captain of the British and Irish Lions on the 1927 British Lions tour to Argentina later a Selector for then as President of the Scottish Rugby Union. He trained as a surgeon but, after military service in World War II, he returned to Kirkcudbright to join his father in General Practice.
• Bob McDougall, former professional football player who played for Liverpool FC
• Stafford McDowall, Professional rugby player with Glasgow Warriors
• Sir John McMichael FRSE LLD, Cardiologist. He developed the Royal Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith.
• James McMonies, former Canadian businessman and politician
• Alexander Manson FRSE physician based in Nottingham who pioneered the use of iodine in medicine
• Robert Milligan, Liberal Party politician and the first mayor of Bradford
• William Mouncey Artist
• Sir John Nairne, 1st Baronet, former Chief Cashier then Director of the Bank of England and a BBC Governor
• Emma Pollock, Singer-songwriter, musician, and a founding member of the bands The Delgados, The Burns Unit and The Fruit Tree Foundation
• Arthur Smith former rugby union player winning 33 caps for Scotland including some as captain, twice selected to tour with the British and Irish Lions, as a player on the 1955 British Lions tour to South Africa and as captain on the 1962 British Lions tour to South Africa.
• Samuel Smith, Liberal politician, former MP and co-founder of Edge Hill University
• Edward Telfair, American Revolutionary, slave owner, three time Governor of the state of Georgia, member of the Continental Congress, and signatory to the Articles of Confederation. Telfair County, Georgia is named after Edward Telfair and Telfair Square in Savannah, Georgia is named in honour of the Telfair family: Edward Telfair, his son Congressman Thomas Telfair and his daughter Mary Telfair, benefactor of Savannah's Telfair Museum of Art.
• George Thompson, Former MP who initially attended as a pupil then returned as a French teacher in 1973-74 before being elected SNP MP for Galloway 1974–79. In 1989 he was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest and was appointed Parish Priest of St Peter's Catholic Church at Dalbeattie.
• James Williamson Banker, pastoralist and politician in Australia. Member of the Legislative Council for Nelson Province from Dec 1882 to Aug 1888.
• James Wolffe QC, is a senior Scottish lawyer who has served as Lord Advocate since 1 June 2016.

Notable staff

• Christian Jane Fergusson, artist taught for a year between 1905 and 1906 on secondment

External links

• Official website