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5 unusual facts about Hamilton Academy


Anne Hamilton, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton

Duchess Anne's building of 1714 survived until its demolition in 1932, a plaque commemorating the site being subsequently erected by Hamilton Civic Society, the Hamilton family continuing as benefactors of the school (see article Hamilton Academy.)

Another of the Duchess's works was the building of a new school building to house the Grammar School of Hamilton (in 1848 renamed the Hamilton Academy) which had originally been endowed in 1588 by her great grandfather John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Hamilton and sited near the churchyard adjoining Hamilton Palace.

Edward McCombie McGirr

century physician William Cullen who almost 200 years before had, like himself, been educated at the Hamilton Academy school and Glasgow University.

James Keith, Baron Keith of Avonholm

The young James Keith was brought up at Avonholm, Hamilton and attended the prestigious Hamilton Academy.

Louise Gibson Annand

Born in Uddingston, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Louise Gibson Annand attended the former Hamilton Academy school where her father, Walter D. Annand was English Principal.


Alastair Balls

Alastair Balls served as secretary to the U.K. government's Channel Tunnel advisory committee of experts (the Cairncross Committee of 1974-75) chaired by another Scottish economist Sir Alexander Cairncross, also a former pupil of Hamilton Academy.


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Louise Gibson Annand

Papers relating to her studies at the Hamilton Academy; the University of Glasgow and Jordanhill Training College (together with papers of her father from his time as an undergraduate at the University of Aberdeen) have been deposited with the University of Glasgow Archives.