About: Hamilton Academy

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Hamilton Academy was a school in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The school was described as "one of the finest schools in Scotland" in the Cambridge University Press County Biography of 1910, and was featured in a 1950 Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association magazine article series on Famous Scottish Schools. Having joined the state sector, the school closed in 1972, as a result of the coming of comprehensive schools in Lanarkshire. It was replaced by the new Hamilton Grammar School, which took over its site and most of its pupils and staff.

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  • Hamilton Academy was a school in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The school was described as "one of the finest schools in Scotland" in the Cambridge University Press County Biography of 1910, and was featured in a 1950 Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association magazine article series on Famous Scottish Schools. Having joined the state sector, the school closed in 1972, as a result of the coming of comprehensive schools in Lanarkshire. It was replaced by the new Hamilton Grammar School, which took over its site and most of its pupils and staff. (en)
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  • Hamilton (en)
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  • ceased as an independent institution 1972 (en)
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  • blue & green (en)
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  • Scotland (en)
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  • Lanarkshire (en)
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  • last student roll – 1025 (en)
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  • The 1st Marquess of Hamilton, head of the Ducal House of Hamilton (en)
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  • "Vivat Academia!" (en)
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  • School song (en)
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  • from late 19th. century – co-educational (en)
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  • last Rector, Alfred W. S. Dubber (en)
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  • Rector (en)
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  • Cadzow, Calder, Clutha and Kilbryde (en)
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  • HamiltonAcademy_Badge3JPEG.jpg (en)
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  • prep school 5–12 (en)
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  • Latin: 'Virtue alone ennobles' (en)
  • Sola Nobilitat Virtus (en)
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  • Hamilton Academy (en)
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  • Acta – school in-house periodical & the Hamilton Academy Magazine (en)
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  • Fee-paying senior and junior day and boarding; latterly a Scottish senior selective day school, pupil intake from across the County of Lanark (en)
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  • senior school 12–18 (en)
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  • Hamilton Academy was a school in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The school was described as "one of the finest schools in Scotland" in the Cambridge University Press County Biography of 1910, and was featured in a 1950 Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association magazine article series on Famous Scottish Schools. Having joined the state sector, the school closed in 1972, as a result of the coming of comprehensive schools in Lanarkshire. It was replaced by the new Hamilton Grammar School, which took over its site and most of its pupils and staff. (en)
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  • Hamilton Academy (en)
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