Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 50. Chapters: Hamilton Academy, List of former pupils of Hamilton Academy, John Anderson, John Cairncross, William Cullen, Craig Brown, Matthew Baillie, John Samuel Forrest, Albert Stallard, Baron Stallard, Margo MacDonald, Alistair MacFarlane, Robert Gibson, Lord Gibson, James Stedman Dixon, David Willis Wilson Henderson, Marion Gilchrist, Robert Jack, Thomas Haddon, Alastair Balls, Walter Perrie, David Paton, Louise Gibson Annand, Robert McIntyre, Douglas McBain, Robert J. T. Bell, Douglas Alston Gilchrist, Ian Ford, Andrew Bryan, James Craig Annan, Thomas J Mackie, Tom Watson, Kenneth Darlingston Collins, Ian Deary, Robin Jenkins, Robert Macnish, John Inch, Archie Bethel, William Kilpatrick Stewart, Charles Annand Fraser, Edward McCombie McGirr, Graham Cox, Alexander Cairncross, Samuel James Thomson, Mary Nicol Neill Armour, David Warnock, Struther Arnott, Ian Lang Livingstone, Gordon Reid, Robert Wright, David Thorburn, David King Murray, Alex Graham, Walter J D Annand, Alastair McWhirter, Henry Cunison Rankin, James Keith, Baron Keith of Avonholm, David R. Morrison, Thomas Laurie, Dougie Donnelly, Jock Brown, Thomas Alexander Irvine, A. Y. Campbell, Margery Palmer McCulloch, Ernest Macalpine Armstrong, Colin Douglas, Thomas Cassells, Alexander Macdonald Hamilton, Andrew Froude, George Campbell. Excerpt: Hamilton Academy was a school situated in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Described as "one of the finest schools in Scotland" in the Cambridge University Press County Biography of 1910, Hamilton Academy featured in the Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association Magazine article series on Famous Scottish Schools (1950). No longer existing as an independent institution, Hamilton Academy had a history going back to 1588 when it was endowed by Lord John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Hamilton. Anne, Duchess of Hamilton, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Hamilton Collection, LennoxloveThe school, then known as the Old Grammar School of Hamilton (not to be confused with the present Hamilton Grammar School) stood near the churchyard adjoining Hamilton Palace until in 1714 Anne Hamilton, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton, great-granddaughter of the Founder, re-located the school to a new building on the newly named Grammar School Square also in the lower part of the town, and presented this to the Town Council of Hamilton. The Statistical Account of Lanarkshire of 1835 notes of this school building that it "is a venerable pile, near the centre of the town, containing a long wainscotted hall, emblazoned with the names of former scholars, cut out in the wood, as at Harrow." The old school building of 1714-1848In 1847 this old school building on Grammar School Square was sold for £253 and survived until its demolition in 1932. A plaque commemorating the site of the Old Grammar School of Hamilton (which was re-named Hamilton Academy in 1848) was commissioned by pupils of Hamilton Academy and unveiled by the Academy's rector, David Anderson MC, on 21 March 1932 at a public ceremony in the presence of Academy pupils and teaching staff, the Provost and members of the Town Council, and members of Hamilton Civic Society. The Town Council were sole managers of the school until, in 1848, the school (having been renamed The 'Hamilton Academy') re-located again, to larger premises on the town's Hope Stree