New on the Edinburgh RHS FP Website History section, the story of the success of the Royal High School Former Pupils Rugby Football Club (RHSFP RFC) in the Melrose Sevens in 1921, 1934 and 1962, with biographies of the seven players.
Author: Will
Edinburgh Revisited
New on the Edinburgh RHS FP website News section, an exhibition at the Open Eye gallery in Edinburgh featuring ‘Edinburgh Revisited’, a splendid lavishly illustrated volume of photographs and poetry by RHS 1976 alumni Gordon Hunter and Don Ledingham. And “The First Minister’s Christmas Card”. The Scottish First Minister’s 2021 Christmas card had been created by Emily […]
Edinburgh Annual Dinner 2022
Whilst the progress of COVID will take its course between now and next March, the RHS Edinburgh FP committee has decided to book a venue for Friday 18th March, in the hope that our scale of dinner will be permitted. The venue is the Royal Scots Club, the planned location of the cancelled 2020 event. […]
Bill Strang directs new OU Choir commission
2021 has been a desperate year for singers of all kinds, but particularly for choral groups. I have been rehearsing the Open University Choir for most of the year on Zoom, which has been a strange experience because the time lag means no-one can hear anyone else singing. In an attempt to do something creative […]
National Music Centre for Scotland
We have just become aware that the Old Royal High School building in Regent Road is to become a National Music Centre for Scotland. On 7th October 2021 the Edinburgh city council’s finance committee agreed to grant a long-term lease on the building to the Royal High School Preservation Trust, which has secured £55 million […]
Sir Walter Scott 250th anniversary
The great Man’s 250th birthday was celebrated on Saturday 30th October, with a ‘National Service of Thanksgiving for his life and work‘ in St Giles Cathedral, followed by a procession from Parliament Square to the Scott Monument. The school was represented by Head of Biology Gordon Rutter (doubling up in his capacity as Officer to […]
Pre-Christmas Drinks 7th December 2021
Dear Friends, The Royal High School Club in London is hosting an informal pre-Christmas drinks party at the Iron Duke pub, 11 Avery Row, Mayfair, London W1K 4AN on Tuesday 7th of December from 6:30 p.m. until around 9:00 p.m. The Iron Duke is the traditional Fuller’s pub in the heart of the West End […]
The Janitors
No history of the School is complete without mention of the Janitors who have played a prominent role in school life since 1694. Several have been ex-servicemen, notably Falconer, Percy Campbell 1954-1963 (a sub-mariner and POW for 5 years) and James Fulton MBE 1964-1968 (also a POW). Pupils at the school in 60’s will remember […]