Cargilfield Preparatory School

Cargilfield Preparatory School is a Scottish private co-educational boarding and prep school in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Cargilfield Preparatory School
Address
45 Gamekeeper's Road Edinburgh , EH4 6HU Scotland
Coordinates	55.96971°N 3.30004°W / 55.96971; -3.30004
Information
Type	Preparatory school Day & Boarding School
Motto	Deo Custode ("With God as [a] guardian")
Religious affiliation(s)	Church of Scotland
Established	1873
Founder	Rev Daniel Charles Darnell[1]
Headmaster	Rob Taylor
Gender	Co-educational
Age	3 to 13
Enrolment	322
Houses	Bruce, Graham, Stuart, Wallace,
Colour(s)	Red, Navy blue, White
Website	http://www.cargilfield.com/
Listed Building – Category B
Official name	45 Gamekeeper’s Road, Cargilfield School, Including Chapel, Nursery, Cricket Pavilion, Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Gates[2]
Designated	24 February 1997; 28 years ago (1997-02-24)[2]
Reference no.	LB43929[2]

History

Cargilfield was founded in 1873 by Rev Daniel Charles Darnell^[3] an Episcopalian and former master at Rugby School^[4] and was the first independent preparatory school in Scotland. Originally, the school was located at Cargilfield, a large villa on South Trinity Road in the Trinity area of Edinburgh. It was sometimes referred to as Cargilfield Trinity School. It largely served as a feeder school to nearby Fettes College.

In 1899, the school relocated to Barnton.^[1]

In the period 2003–2012, the headmaster was John Elder. Among the changes he made to the school was the abolition of homework.^[5]

In 2014, the UK government named the school in a list of 25 UK employers which had failed to pay workers the national minimum wage, for underpaying an artist in residence by £3,739.^[6] The school responded that it had rectified this situation as soon as it was made aware of it, and apologised.^[7]

The school has reached the finals of the UKMT Team Mathematics Challenge competition in five consecutive years (2013,^[8] 2014, ^[9] 2015, ^[10] 2016, and ^[11] 2017.^[12] )

Notable alumni

See also Category:People educated at Cargilfield School

• Torquhil Campbell, 13th Duke of Argyll (born 1968)
• James Balfour-Melville (1882–1915), cricketer and soldier
• Robin Barbour KCVO MC (1921–2014), Church of Scotland minister and author
• John Lorne Campbell of Canna (1906-1996) landowner and folklorist
• Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton (1863–1930), electrical engineer
• Euan Hillhouse Methven Cox (1893–1977), botanist and horticulturist
• George Denholm (1908–1997), Second World War flying ace
• Thomas Gillespie (1892–1914), Olympic rower^[13]
• Sandy Gunn, photographic reconnaissance Spitfire pilot, executed in 1944 after the Great Escape^[14]
• Sir William Oliphant Hutchison (1889–1970), portrait and landscape painter
• Douglas Jamieson, Lord Jamieson (1880–1952), Unionist politician and judge
• Logie Bruce Lockhart (1921–2020), Scotland international rugby union footballer and headmaster^[15]
• Hugh Mackenzie (1913–1996), Royal Navy officer
• Donald M. MacKinnon (1913–1994), philosopher and theologian
• Sir Thomas Stewart Macpherson (1920–2014), soldier
• Duncan Menzies, Lord Menzies (born 1953), judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland
• Victor Noel-Paton, Baron Ferrier (1900–1992), soldier and business man
• William Robert Ogilvie-Grant (1863–1924), ornithologist
• Lewis Robertson (1883–1914), Scotland rugby footballer and soldier
• William Roy Sanderson DD (1907–2008), minister, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1967
• Sir Samuel Strang Steel of Philiphaugh Bt, landowner and Conservative politician.
• George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie (1931-2003), Conservative politician and banker