Brechin High School is a non-denominational

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Brechin Brechin (; gd, Breichin) is a city and former Royal burgh in Angus, Scotland. Traditionally Brechin was described as a city because of its cathedral and its status as the seat of a pre-Reformation Roman Catholic diocese (which continues today ...

Angus, Scotland Angus ( sco, Angus; gd, Aonghas) is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland, a registration county and a lieutenancy area. The council area borders Aberdeenshire, Dundee City and Perth and Kinross. Main industries include agr ...

Admissions

It has approximately 660 students, and real listically 4 staff. The school has a relationship with the town's

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stretching back to the early 15th century, with the formation of the choir school. Feeder primary schools include two in

: Andover and Maisondieu and four rural schools: Edzell, Lethnot, Stracathro, and Tarfside. Historically, school pupils were split into four

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: Dalhousie, Maisondieu, Kinnaird and Trinity (named after local country estates) with siblings always being placed in the same house but this system was recently changed and pupils are now split between houses Dun, Farnell and Menmuir (named after local villages). The school is in the north-west of Brechin, near the A90 bypass, and next to a disused railway line.

Alumni

* Dame

Anne Begg Dame Margaret Anne Begg DBE (born 6 December 1955) is a Scottish politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Aberdeen South from 1997 to 2015. A member of the Labour Party, she was Chair of the Work and Pensions Select Committee ...

MP, Labour Member of Parliament from 1997 to 2015 for Aberdeen South. * William Eddie, cricketer and Provost for the City and Royal Burgh of Brechin * John Gillies LLD FRS

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FSA,

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, 1793–1836. *

Thomas Guthrie Thomas Guthrie FRSE (12 July 1803 – 24 February 1873) was a Scottish divine and philanthropist, born at Brechin in Angus (at that time also called Forfarshire). He was one of the most popular preachers of his day in Scotland, and was associa ...

DD, founder of the

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of Scotland and Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland, 1862. * William Guthrie, eighteenth-century historian and geographer. *

Kirstene Hair Kirstene Janette Hair (born 12 August 1989) is a former Scottish Conservative Party politician. She was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Angus between 2017 and 2019. Early life and career Hair was born on 12 August 1989 in Brechin, Angus, ...

, Conservative Member of Parliament from 2017 to 2019 for Angus. *

Joseph Fairweather Lamb Joseph Fairweather Lamb FRSE (1928–2015) was a 20th-century Scottish physician, who was Emeritus Professor of the Chandos Chair of Physiology at the University of St Andrews. Life He was born at Balnacake Farm near Brechin on 18 July 1928A ...

, Chandos Professor of Physiology at the

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. * David Low, Bishop of Ross and Argyll, 1819-1838 and Bishop of

Moray Moray () gd, Moireibh or ') is one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland. It lies in the north-east of the country, with a coastline on the Moray Firth, and borders the council areas of Aberdeenshire and Highland. Between 1975 ...

, 1838–1850. *

Alexander Ferrier Mitchell Alexander Ferrier Mitchell (1822 – 1899) was a Scottish ecclesiastical historian and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1885. Life He was born at Brechin on 10 September 1822, son of David Mitchell, convener of local ...

DD LLD, Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the

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and

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. * David Myles, Conservative Member of Parliament from 1979 to 1983 for

Banffshire Banffshire ; sco, Coontie o Banffshire; gd, Siorrachd Bhanbh) is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland. The county town is Banff, although the largest settlement is Buckie to the west. It borders the Moray ...

. *

Robin Orr Robert Kemsley (Robin) Orr (2 June 1909 – 9 April 2006) was a Scottish organist and composer. Life Born in Brechin, and educated at Loretto School, he studied the organ at the Royal College of Music in London under Walter Galpin Alcock, and pi ...

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, composer, professor of music and founder chairman of

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.Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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Robert Watson-Watt Sir Robert Alexander Watson Watt (13 April 1892 – 5 December 1973) was a Scottish pioneer of radio direction finding and radar technology. Watt began his career in radio physics with a job at the Met Office, where he began looking for accura ...

KCB FRS

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, inventor of

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. * David Will

, Vice-President from 1990 to 2007 of

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. * Stuart Wilson, cricketer

References

External links

Brechin High School
- official website
Brechin High's on Scottish Schools Online
{{authority control Secondary schools in Angus, Scotland 1429 establishments in Scotland Educational institutions established in the 15th century