Fettes College
school
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| Formation | 1870 |
| Headquarters | Edinburgh, Scotland |
| 'The Scottish Eton' | |
Fettes College is a co-educational independent boarding and day school in Edinburgh, Scotland, with over two-thirds of its pupils in residence on campus. The school was originally a boarding school for boys only and became co-ed in 1983. In 1978 the College had a nine-hole golf course,[1] an ice-skating rink used in winter for ice hockey and in summer as an outdoor swimming pool, a cross-country running track and a rifle shooting range within the forested 300-acre grounds.[2] Fettes is sometimes referred to as a public school, although that term was traditionally used in Scotland for state schools. The school was founded with a bequest of Sir William Fettes in 1870 and started admitting girls in 1970. It follows the English rather than Scottish education system and has nine houses.
Connections
Bill Gammell and Tony Blair became friends here.
While expanding on James Bond's back story, Ian Fleming wrote in You Only Live Twice that the agent had attended Fettes College, his father Andrew Bond's old school, after having been removed from Eton. An Andrew Bond is recorded to have been at Fettes as a boarder in Carrington House.[3]
References
- ↑ Philp, Robert, A Keen Wind Blows, James & James, 1998 p. 131.
- ↑ Fettes College Prospectus 1978
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=S8ultuwZXOMC&pg=PP9