Brechin High School is a non-denominational secondary school located in Brechin, Angus, Scotland.
Admissions It has approximately 660 students. The school has a relationship with the town's cathedral stretching back to the early 15th century,Brechin High School Website About the school, retrieved on 29 June 2008 with the formation of the choir school.
Feeder primary schools include two in Brechin: Andover and Maisondieu and four rural schools: Edzell, Lethnot, Stracathro (no.1), and Tarfside.Brechin High School Website Associated Primaries, retrieved on 14 May 2011
Historically, school pupils were split into four houses: Dalhousie, Maisondieu, Kinnaird and Trinity (named after local country estates) with siblings always being placed in the same house but this system was recently changed and pupils are now split between houses Dun, Farnell and Menmuir (named after local villages).
The school is in the north-west of Brechin, near the A90 bypass, and next to a disused railway line.
People Educated at Brechin High School
Dame Anne Begg MP, Labour Member of Parliament from 1997 to 2015 for Aberdeen South William Eddie, cricketer and Provost for the City and Royal Burgh of Brechin Christian Matlock, U.S. Bail Enforcement Agent 2000-2004 BBC Scotland The Scottish Bounty Hunter 2016 John Gillies LLD FRS FRSE FSA, Historiographer Royal, 1793–1836Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Thomas Guthrie DD, founder of the Ragged Schools of Scotland and Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland, 1862Oxford Dictionary of National Biography William Guthrie, eighteenth-century historian and geographerScottish Geographical Magazine Kirstene Hair, conservative member of Parliament from 2017 to 2019 for Angusf Joseph Fairweather Lamb FRSE, Chandos Professor of Physiology at the University of St Andrews David Low, Bishop of Ross and Argyll, 1819-1838 and Bishop of Moray, 1838–1850Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Alexander Ferrier Mitchell DD LLD, professor of ecclesiastical history at the University of St Andrews and Moderator of the Church of Scotland David Myles, Conservative member of Parliament from 1979 to 1983 for Banffshire Robin Orr CBE, composer, professor of music and founder chairman of Scottish OperaOxford Dictionary of National Biography Sir Robert Watson-Watt KCB FRS FRAeS, inventor of radar David Will CBE, vice-president of FIFA, 1990–2007 Stuart Wilson, cricketer
See also List of the oldest schools in the United Kingdom
References
External links Brechin High School - Official School Website Brechin High's on Scottish Schools Online