John Cruikshank was born on May 20th 1920, and attended the Royal High School in 1930 for 2 or 3 years. He moved to Daniel Stewart’s College from the Royal High, and completed his school education there. He tends to be ‘claimed’ by Daniel Stewart’s as their pupil, and indeed there is a […]
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Prize Winning Poem
As you may have seen in the You Tube video of the school’s virtual prize-giving the winner of the RHS London Club prize for an English poem for 2020 was Euan Coull with his poem The hesitant silence before ”I love you too”. Euan takes us into a world of coffee bars, late night phone […]
Royal High School Ceremonies
Dear Friends of RHS, I know you will be delighted to know that despite our current challenges we have not abandoned this years Wider Achievement, Prizegiving and Leavers Ceremony. We can’t get together to celebrate so instead we have created a digital version of our two ceremonies. These will be release via our website as […]
Visit of the Duke of Kent to the Royal High School
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent visited the School on 2nd December 2019, as a delayed part of the Barnton 50th celebrations. He spent around an hour in the School, including a tour of School projects displayed in the Assembly Hall. He also unveiled a commemorative plaque recording his visit. The PDF below has two pages, […]
Photos from our Dinner
Photographs from our 2020 Annual Dinner at the RAF Club in Picadilly can now be viewed on our website gallery pages.
Jock Dewar’s Funeral
From David Rutherford, Secretary of the RHS FP Club (Edinburgh) – Regretfully I have to inform you that George “Jock” Dewar, a.k.a. Badger, passed away last week. There will be a funeral service at Warriston, Edinburgh on Wednesday 22nd January 2020 at 12.00 I am sure that there will be a significant RHS FP turnout […]
Jock Dewar
We are sad to report that former RHS classics teacher Jock “Badger” Dewar has died. Jock taught at the school from 1957 to 1987 and in addition to teaching Latin, was head coach for the school’s rugby teams. After retiring Jock kept in touch with the school through the Edinburgh FP club, attending the Annual […]
Congratulations Colin Todd MBE
Congratulations to long standing London Club member Colin Todd who received a well deserved MBE in the New Year Honours for Services to Fire Safety. Quoting from the BAFE website “Alongside being Managing Director of his own fire safety consultancy practice (C.S. Todd & Associates), Colin holds many positions to help improve the fire industry, […]