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unusual facts about Scots College


Scots College, Wellington

Recent projects on campus have been the science block, opened in 2006 by Nobel Laureate Sir Paul Nurse and the Aitken (Admin/Reception) block in 2009.


Bedford Road Invitational Tournament

In 2004, the first non North American team entered the tournament as Scots College came from Sydney, Australia to take part.

Frederick Rolfe

In 1887 he was sponsored to train at St Mary's College, Oscott near Birmingham and in 1889 was a student at the Scots College in Rome, but was thrown out by both due to his inability to concentrate on priestly studies and his erratic behaviour.

Paul MacPherson

Paul McPherson, the first secular Scottish priest to be rector of the Scots College, Rome, was born in Scalan, Aberdeenshire on 4 March 1756.


see also

Collège des Écossais, Montpellier

College Des Ecossais (Scots College) was an international teaching establishment located in Montpellier, France and founded by Patrick Geddes in 1924.

Frederick Rolfe

His seminary, the Scots College, was quite close to Plüschow's studio in via Sardegna, just off the via Veneto, and when Rolfe was expelled from the College and came under the benevolent patronage of the Duchess Sforza Cesarini, he began his own photographic efforts in imitation of von Gloeden and Plüschow.

James Tyrie

On his return in December, Tyrie was sent to the University of Pont-à-Mousson, as professor of Scripture and head of the Scots College, and two years later, on the successive deaths of Fathers Edmund Hay and Paul Hoffaeus, he was again called to Rome (22 May, 1592), where he became Assistant for France and Germany, and played his part in the Sixth General Congregation of the Society of Jesus (1593).

Outlook Tower

The house became the Scots College (College Des Ecossais).