St Aloysius' College is a selective fee-paying,

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, Scotland. It was founded in 1859 by the

s, who previously staffed the college, and named after Saint

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. St Aloysius' College is a

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school with a

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, and senior school.

History

Foundation

The school was established on 12 September 1859 at Charlotte Street, near

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, in the East End of

. Here lived the city's largely migrant Catholic community from Ireland and the

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, both of which groups the school was intended to serve. Since 1866, the College's main campus has been situated in Garnethill on the north side of Glasgow city centre, adjacent to the

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. Originally, the school was for boys only. In 1979, the admission policy was changed by the Governors during the tenure of Headmaster Fr. Henry Anthony Richmond SJ and girls were admitted. Girls now make up half of the school population.

Buildings

Buildings include the original category-B listed

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Chandlery Building, including the administration block, library, and

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. Its 1908 and 1926 extensions are known collectively as The Hanson Building, which accommodates classrooms for languages and the humanities as well as the school chapel and gymnasium.John V. McCabe, ''A History of St Aloysius’ College 1859 to 1999'', St Aloysius’ College, 2000. The Mount Building, which originally housed the city's first Royal Hospital for Sick Children from 1882, which previously housed the junior school (whose patron is St John Ogilvie) as well as music, art and drama and the kindergarten. As of August 2023, The Mount Building is no longer being used by the school and Music, Art and Drama facilities have all been moved to the convent building, referred to by the school as the Performing Arts Centre, or PAC, while the kindergarten is now its own building. More modern additions include the Clavius Building housing the Mathematics, Science, and Technology faculty and the Junior School Building, both of which have won

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architectural awards, and have been identified as amongst the best modern Scottish buildings. In 2011, the number of buildings and the size of the campus increased with the acquisition of the Mercy Convent site and buildings. The building houses the schools music and art classrooms, as well as a drama and recording studio. Staloysius

The school has a close relationship with the Jesuit parish church of St Aloysius next door. The church is regularly used by the college and Masses offered for both the junior and senior schools. The building is listed category A, designed by C. J. Menart in the baroque revival style and modelled on the Church of the Gesú, original Jesuit headquarters in

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. A new Sports Hall was recently constructed on the College campus, and open for use from August 2017. The school's main sports grounds are on the north-eastern outskirts of the city at

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Prefects of Studies

* 1859-60 - Fr James Corry, SJ * 1860-61 - Fr John Biden, SJ * 1861-65 - Fr Thomas Brown Parkinson, SJ * 1865-66 - Fr Charles Wilson, SJ * 1866-69 - Fr John MacLeod, SJ * 1869-70 - Fr Anthony Foxwell, SJ * 1870-71 - Fr Thomas Brown Parkinson, SJ * 1871-73 - Fr James Maguire, SJ * 1873-75 - Fr John Lea, SJ * 1875-78 - Fr Francis Bacon, SJ * 1878-80 - Fr Francis Scoles, SJ * 1880-81 - Fr James Hayes, SJ * 1881-82 - Fr Henry Parker Lander, SJ * 1882-88 - Fr Peter Chandlery, SJ * 1888-93 - Fr Gerald Tarleton, SJ * 1893-95 - Fr Albert Kopp, SJ * 1895-99 - Fr Edward Etherington, SJ * 1899-1901 - Fr Patrick Flynn, SJ * 1901-26 - Fr Eric Hanson, SJ * 1926-32 - Fr Joseph Bullen, SJ * 1932-38 - Fr Marcus Ambrose, SJ * 1938-45 - Fr Thomas Sheridan, SJ * 1945-49 - Fr Thomas Calnan, SJ * 1949-56 - Fr Thomas Lakeland, SJ * 1956-71 - Fr John Tracey, SJ

Headmasters

* Father William Forrester, SJ – (1971-1977) * Father Henry Anthony Richmond, SJ – (1977–1991) * Rev. Dr. James Hanvey, SJ – (1991–1995) * Father Adrian Porter, SJ – (1995–2004) * Mr John E Stoer – (2004–2013) * Mr John Browne – (2013–2016) * Mr Matthew D. Bartlett – (2016–2022) * Mr Patrick Doyle – (2023-2024) * Mr Michael Burrowes - (2024-) (Acting)

Junior School and Kindergarten

St Aloysius' College

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and

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support children from the ages of 3 to 12 years old. The kindergarten is situated in the Mount Building, while the Junior school is in a modern building along Hill Street. As well as attending lessons in the Junior school, the pupils will also receive preparation for the sacraments of

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and First Holy Communion as part of the school's three-fold tuition for their academic, social and spiritual lives.

Sport

Aloysius' rugby team won the Scottish Rugby U16 Schools' Cup Final in 2016, and in 2022, the U18 1st XV won the schools’ shield final.

Notable alumni

Arts and Media *

A. J. Cronin Archibald Joseph Cronin (Cronogue) (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981) was a Scottish physician and novelist. His best-known novel is ''The Citadel (novel), The Citadel'' (1937), about a Scottish physician who serves in a Welsh coal mining, minin ...

(1896–1981) – author

* Canon Sydney MacEwan (1908–1991) – singer *

Ian Bannen Ian Edmund Bannen (29 June 1928 – 3 November 1999) was a Scottish actor with a long film, stage and TV career. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Academy Award for his performance in ''The Flight of the Phoenix ( ...

(1928–1999) actor * James Loughran (1931-2024) conductor *

Tom Conti Tommaso Antonio Conti (born 22 November 1941) is a Scottish actor. Conti has received numerous accolades including a Tony Award and a Laurence Olivier Award as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and two Golden Globe Awards ...

(born 1941) – actor * Sean Scanlan (1948–2017) – actor * Christopher Whyte (born 1952) – novelist * Paul Coia (born 1955) – broadcaster * Fred Morrison (born 1963) – musician *

Armando Iannucci Armando Giovanni Iannucci (; born 28 November 1963) is a Scottish satirist, writer, director, producer and performer. Born in Glasgow to Italian parents, Iannucci studied at the University of Glasgow followed by the University of Oxford. St ...

(born 1963) – comedian * Sanjeev Kohli (born 1971) – comedian Academia and medicine * Owen Hannaway (1939–2006) – historian * Patrick J. O'Donnell (1948–2016) – university lecturer * Prof Sir Harry Burns (born 1951) – Ex-Chief Medical Officer for Scotland, now professor of global public health at the

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* Prof John Joseph Haldane (born 1954) – professor of philosophy Politics and law * James Marley (1893–1954) – politician * Seamus O'Donovan (1896-1979) - IRA's top emissary to Nazi Germany * John Thomas Wheatley (1908–1988) – Baron Wheatley, politician and judge *

Patrick Kavanagh Patrick Kavanagh (21 October 1904 – 30 November 1967) was an Irish poet and novelist. His best-known works include the novel ''Tarry Flynn'', and the poems "On Raglan Road" and "The Great Hunger". He is known for his accounts of Irish life th ...

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(1923–2013), senior police officer * Joseph Beltrami (1932–2015) – Glasgow defence lawyer * James Stuart Gordon (1936-2020) – Lord Gordon of Strathblane,

* The Rt Hon

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(born 1942) – former Lord President of the Court of Session * Michael Scanlan (1946–2015) – Former President of the Law Society of Scotland * Gerald Malone (born 1950) – former MP * Paul McBride (1964–2012) – QC, lawyer * Austin Lafferty, (born 1959) former President of the Law Society of Scotland * Polly Higgins (1968–2019) – barrister, author and international environmental lawyer, founder of the ECOCIDE initiative, advocate for the recognition of

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as a criminal offence * Martin McCluskey - MP for Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West Religious * John Maguire (1851–1920) – Archbishop of Glasgow * Rt Rev James Black (1894–1968) – first bishop of Paisley * Most Rev James Donald Scanlan (1899–1976) – former archbishop of Glasgow * Rt Rev Stephen McGill (1912–2005) – former bishop of Argyll and the Isles and second bishop of Paisley * Rev James J. Quinn (1919–2010) – priest, hymnwriter and ecumenist. *

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(1926–2023),

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of the Diocese of Galloway * Rt Rev Peter Antony Moran (born 1935) – emeritus

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Sports * Charlie Church (1929–2010) – footballer * Carlo di Ciacca (born 1977) – former

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player * Dan York –

player * James Craig -

- former Scotland international rugby union player * Andy Walker (born 1965) - former football player for Motherwell, Celtic, Bolton Wanderers, Sheffield United, and Ayr United. Won 3 International caps for Scotland

Buildings

File:45-47 Hill Street, St Aloysius College.jpg, Scott Street building File:St Aloysius College by Thomas Nugent Geograph 3906553.jpg, Hill Street building File:St Aloysius College sports complex, Glasgow, by Thomas Nugent 6046322.jpg, Sports complex on Dalhousie Street, opened 2017. File:Hill Street - geograph.org.uk - 3906548.jpg, Junior School building

References

External links

*
College HandbookSt Aloysius' page on Scottish Schools Online
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History

Foundation

Buildings

Prefects of Studies

Headmasters

Junior School and Kindergarten

Sport

Notable alumni

Buildings

See also

References

External links