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The Trustees Drawing Academy of Edinburgh was founded in 1760 – an institution that became the Edinburgh College of Art in 1907.
In addition, the city is home to a large number of independent, fee-paying schools including Edinburgh Academy, Fettes College, George Heriot's School, George Watson's College, Merchiston Castle School, Stewart's Melville College and The Mary Erskine School.
James Clerk Maxwell, the founder of the modern theory of electromagnetism, was born here and educated at the Edinburgh Academy and University of Edinburgh, as was the engineer and telephone pioneer Alexander Graham Bell.
Encounters at the End of the World won the award for Best Documentary at the 2008 Edinburgh International Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Documentary Feature, Herzog's first nomination.
Thomas Braidwood, an Edinburgh teacher, founded ' Braidwood's Academy for the Deaf and Dumb ' in 1760 which is recognised as the first school for the deaf in Britain.
He was educated at Dollar Academy and the University of Edinburgh, where he studied under Lord Playfair, and later became Lord Playfair's assistant.
Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the sixth child and third son of John Stairs and Mary Morrow, he attended school at Fort Massey Academy in Halifax, Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario, Student # 52
Dalyell was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and Eton College and did his National Service with the Royal Scots Greys from 1950 to 1952-as an ordinary trooper, after failing his officer training.
He then trained as a teacher at Moray House College in Edinburgh and taught at Bo ' ness Academy and a ship school.
The Edinburgh Academy is an independent school which was opened in 1824.
This was used for the junior department ( now known as Early Years ) of the Preparatory School ( now known as The Edinburgh Academy Junior School ).
Alumni of the Edinburgh Academy are known as Academicals, or Accies, a name shared with the Rugby team.
Nine Edinburgh Academy Alumni have won the Victoria Cross.
There have been 18 rectors of The Edinburgh Academy since it was founded in 1824.
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* Samuel Butcher, professor of Greek at Edinburgh University, President of the British Academy, Liberal Unionist MP for Cambridge University
The Academy has been associated with the British monarchy since The Duke of Edinburgh became the British Film Academy's first president in the 1940s.
He was educated at Edinburgh Academy in Edinburgh and at the University of St Andrews, taking an especial interest in the study of Celtic philology and literature.
Category: People educated at Edinburgh Academy
During 18th century many European kings followed and founded their own academy of sciences: in 1714 in Bologna, in 1724 the Russian Academy of Sciences, in 1731 the Royal Dublin Society, in 1735 in Tuscany, in 1739 the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in 1742 the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, in 1751 the Gottingen Academy of Sciences, in 1754 in Erfurt, in 1759 the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, in 1763 the Academia Theodoro-Palatina in Heidelberg, in 1779 the Sciences Academy of Lisbon, in 1783 the Royal Society of Edinburgh, in 1782 the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze, in 1784 in Turin.

Edinburgh and is
* Edinburgh Festival is an internationally famous arts festival that takes place during August
Northumbria once stretched as far north as what is now southeast Scotland, including Edinburgh, and as far south as the Humber Estuary.
It is on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, looking south to the island of Inchcolm and its Abbey, and to Leith and Edinburgh beyond.
When AA was ported to the English Electric KDF9 computer, the character set was changed to ISO and that compiler has been recovered from an old paper tape by the Edinburgh Computer History Project and is available online, as is a high-quality scan of the original Edinburgh version of the Atlas Autocode manual.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is currently the only living holder of the rank of Field Marshal in the Australian Army.
The home of the modern game is still Scotland with the World Bowls centre in Edinburgh at Caledonia House, 1 Redheughs Rigg, South Gyle, Edinburgh, EH12 9DQ.
Eastern bongo at Edinburgh Zoo An international studbook is maintained to help manage animals held in captivity.
In Scotland the only one which has survived the convulsions of the 16th century is Aberdeen Breviary, a Scottish form of the Sarum Office ( the Sarum Rite was much favoured in Scotland as a kind of protest against the jurisdiction claimed by the diocese of York ), revised by William Elphinstone ( bishop 1483 – 1514 ), and printed at Edinburgh by Walter Chapman and Andrew Myllar in 1509 – 1510.
His 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, The Headmaster's Son is based on his time at The Kings of Wessex School, where his father Keith was the headmaster.
In Scotland is situated the Edinburgh Croquet Club.
In 1768, he settled in Edinburgh ; he lived from 1771 until his death in 1776 at the south-west corner of St. Andrew's Square, in Edinburgh's New Town, at what is now 21 Saint David Street.
* 1958 – Subscriber Trunk Dialling ( STD ) is inaugurated in the UK by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.
The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh is the main public hospital for the city.
The Royal Infirmary is the main Accident & Emergency hospital not just for Edinburgh but also Midlothian and East Lothian, and is the headquarters of NHS Lothian, making it a centric focus for Edinburgh and its hinterland.
The Royal Edinburgh Hospital specialises in mental health ; it is situated in Morningside.
Culturally, Edinburgh is best known for the Edinburgh Festival, which is a series of separate events running from the end of July until early September each year.

Edinburgh and now
Comedy is now one of the mainstays of the Fringe, with numerous notable comedians getting their ' break ' here, often through receipt of the Edinburgh Comedy Award.
He went on to find a similar penetration of volcanic rock through sedimentary rock near the centre of Edinburgh, at Salisbury Crags, adjoining Arthur's Seat: this is now known as Hutton's Section.
It was destroyed at the Reformation, but some fragments were discovered in the 19th century ( now in the Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh ).
Born in 1809 in Liverpool, England, at 62 Rodney Street, William Ewart Gladstone was the fourth son of the merchant Sir John Gladstone from Leith ( now a suburb of Edinburgh ), and his second wife, Anne MacKenzie Robertson, from Dingwall, Ross-shire.
He is succeeded by his daughter The Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh ( now Elizabeth II ), who is on a visit to Kenya.
Knox was now free to preach openly in Edinburgh.
* King James VI of Scotland signs a charter creating Tounis College ( now the University of Edinburgh ).
His huge James Dawkins and Robert Wood Discovering the Ruins of Palmyra ( 1758, now Edinburgh ) elevates tourism to the heroic, with the two travellers wearing what look very like togas.
Although wounded, the queen managed to escape and sent a directive ahead to Edinburgh for the now James II to be shielded from any widening of the conspiracy and had the boy king's custodian, the pro-Atholl John Spens, removed from his post and replaced by the trusted John Balfour.
Gay and lesbian Scottish country dancing groups, first being organised in London and now in Manchester and Edinburgh aptly named The Gay Gordons offer same-sex Scottish country dancing, the London group has adopted the use of the terms " leader " and " follower " instead of " man " and " lady " ( terms borrowed from swing dance ).
With the princes in the hands of their uncle, the Queen Dowager, now expecting a child by Angus, retired to Edinburgh.
With Albany once more in France ( where he was to die in 1536 ), Margaret, with the help of Arran and the Hamiltons, brought James, now twelve years old, from Stirling to Edinburgh.
Edinburgh Castle was initially handed by its Captain, James Balfour, to the Regent Moray, who had forced Mary's abdication, and now held power in the name of the infant King James VI.
* Duncan Ferguson 2003 ( now Organist & Master of the Music St Mary's, Edinburgh )
* Donald Hunt 2010 ( now Assistant Organist St Mary's, Edinburgh )
Studd establishes Heart of Africa Mission, now called WEC International ; Edinburgh Missionary Conference held in Scotland, presided over by John Mott, beginning modern Protestant ecumenical cooperation in missions
The original building, in Henderson Row on the northern fringe of the New Town of Edinburgh, Scotland, is now part of the Senior School.
The first crossing at what is now the site of the bridge was established in the 11th century by Margaret, queen consort of King Malcolm III, who founded a ferry service to transport religious pilgrims from Edinburgh to Dunfermline Abbey and St Andrews.
* Edinburgh Fringe ( 1947 )* — now the largest of all the festivals and indeed the largest arts festival in the world.
Corsewall Lighthouse was automated in 1994 and is now only loosely monitored from the Northern Lighthouse Board's offices in Edinburgh.

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