Dr Andrew Edward Scougal
FRSE
Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This soci ...
LLD (18 April 1846–6 November 1916) was a 19th-century Scottish civil servant who served as Chief Inspector of Schools 1901 to 1911.
Life
Scougal was born in
Rothesay on 18 April 1846, the son of James Scougal.
The family relocated to
Leith Walk in
Edinburgh in his youth, living at 13 Pilrig Street. He was educated at
Edinburgh Academy and the
Edinburgh Institution. He then studied at the
University of Edinburgh graduating with an MA in 1865. In 1869 he joined the civil service as a school inspector and rose to become the Chief Inspector of Schools by 1901.
In 1889 he was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh
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. His proposers were
Sir German Sims Woodhead,
Alexander Bruce,
Peter Guthrie Tait and
Robert McNair Ferguson.
He lived his later life at 1 Wester Coates Avenue, a semi-detached villa in Edinburgh's West End, immediately adjacent to
Donaldson's School.
The University of Edinburgh awarded him with an honorary doctorate (LLD) in 1908.
He died in
Edinburgh on 4 November 1916, and was buried in
Dean Cemetery
The Dean Cemetery is a historically important Victorian cemetery north of the Dean Village, west of Edinburgh city centre, in Scotland. It lies between Queensferry Road and the Water of Leith, bounded on its east side by Dean Path and on ...
on 6 November. The grave lies in the south-east section.
Family
He married Annie Halley Cowan (1853-1925).
At least two of their sons joined the
British Army: Lt Col Alex Graham Scougal (1888-1918) and Major Francis William Scougal (1884-1918). They were killed on consecutive days (18/19 September) but in different battles in the closing weeks of
World War I.
A third son Harry James Scougal (1880-1907) was a scholar who studied at
Cambridge University and
Jena in Germany. He was an expert on
John Dury.
[Scougal grave Dean Cemetery]
References
1846 births
1916 deaths
People educated at Edinburgh Academy
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Burials at the Dean Cemetery
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