Belhaven Hill School is an independent, co-educational preparatory school for boarding and day pupils aged 5 to 13 in
Dunbar
Dunbar () is a town on the North Sea coast in East Lothian in the south-east of Scotland, approximately east of Edinburgh and from the English border north of Berwick-upon-Tweed.
Dunbar is a former royal burgh, and gave its name to an ecc ...
,
East Lothian
East Lothian (; sco, East Lowden; gd, Lodainn an Ear) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, as well as a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area. The county was called Haddingtonshire until 1921.
In 1975, the histo ...
, Scotland.
The current
headmaster
A head master, head instructor, bureaucrat, headmistress, head, chancellor, principal or school director (sometimes another title is used) is the teacher, staff member of a school with the greatest responsibility for the management of the school ...
is Olly Langton.
Notable former pupils
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Hugh Buchanan (artist), Scottish artist
* James Chichester, Earl of Belfast (born 1990), aristocrat
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Alexander Elphinstone, 19th Lord Elphinstone (born 1980), aristocrat.
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Rear Admiral Sir Ronald Forrest (1923–2005), senior Royal Navy officer.
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Andro Linklater (1944–2013), writer and historian.
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Magnus Linklater
Magnus Duncan Linklater, CBE (born 21 February 1942) is a Scottish journalist, writer, and former newspaper editor.
Early life and education
Linklater was born in Orkney, and is the son of Scottish writer Eric Linklater and arts campaigner Marjo ...
(born 1942), journalist
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Hugh Trevor-Roper
Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton (15 January 1914 – 26 January 2003) was an English historian. He was Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford.
Trevor-Roper was a polemicist and essayist on a range of ...
(1914–2003), British historian.
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Vice Admiral Sir George Vallings (1932–2007), senior Royal Navy officer.
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George Baillie-Hamilton, 14th Earl of Haddington (born 1985)
["Marriages"]
OB News
belhavenhill.com, accessed 18 February 2023
References
External links
Belhaven Hill School
1923 establishments in Scotland
Educational institutions established in 1923
Preparatory schools in Scotland
Boarding schools in East Lothian
Private schools in East Lothian
Dunbar
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