From – The Scotsman 12/05/2008A PENSIONER who holds the title of being the world’s most prolific testpilot will be awarded with an honorary doctorate by Edinburgh University.Captain Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown, 89, who once crashed while performing ademonstration for Sir Winston Churchill, will be awarded the degree nextmonth by his alma mater in honour of his […]
Make a note of these dates.
Our Annual Drinks and Nibbles Party has been provisionally booked for 10th November 2008 at the Fleming Collection.Next year’s Royal High School Club in London Annual Dinner will be on Friday 20th March 2009. The venue will be announced later.Further details will be posted on the website when available.
Happy Days at the Royal High School 1947-1951
James Donaldson left the school in 1951 and emigrated to Australia – hope he wasn’t trying to get as far away from the place as he could!Anyway he has sent us some tales of his time there which you can read in the second half of our ‘Pongo’ page in Happy Days.
A bit of Nip Tuck
Yes the web site is undergoing a facelift. The refreshed pages are designed to work well with the modern browsers, Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2 and should be compatable with other up to date browsers.In the new design, we have a ‘Meet the committee’ page with photographs and shortbiographies of your club committee. Dr John […]
Farquhar Macintosh CBE MA DLitt Dr hc. 27 October 1923 to 18 November 2007
Farquhar Macintosh CBE MA DLitt Dr hc. 27 October 1923 to 18 November 2007Dr Farquhar Macintosh was a crofter’s son from Elgol, in the Isle of Skye, who over the past 50 years, became one of the great public servants in Scotland. He had a wide range of interests and his contribution to various public […]
Farquhar Macintosh – Rector from 1972-1989.
The Royal High School Club in London was very sorry to hear of the death of Farquhar Macintosh CBE, in Edinburgh, on 18th November 2007 at the age of 84. Farquhar was Rector from 1972 to 1989, a period during which the school was transformed from a selective boys school into the co-educational comprehensive school […]
Annual RHSCL Drinks Party
Dear Friends, You are most cordially invited to the Annual RHSCL Drinks Party to be held on Monday November 5th from 6.30. pm to 8.30. pm. Once again we are returning to the prestigious Fleming Collection at 13, Berkeley Street, London W1. This autumn’s highlight at the gallery is a major exhibition of the work […]
Annual Dinner in 2008
The Club’s 2008 Annual Dinner will be held at the Alto Room at the Cavendish Hotel on Friday 7th of March 2008. President of the Edinburgh Club, Val Tudball, has indicated he will be able to attend. Further details to follow.The next Annual Dinner of the RHS Club in Edinburgh will be held the following […]