![]() ![]() Fettes College was founded by Sir William Fettes, a late-eighteenth-century tea-and-wine merchant and Lord Provost of Edinburgh. Mary Erskine, “relict of James Hair, druggist,” left a fortune for the foundation, in 1707, of the girls’ school named after her. Daniel Stewart, an Exchequer officer, endowed a school that still stands in its turreted splendor of 1814. Jingling Geordie was a jeweller, a goldsmith, and a moneylender to James VI of Scotland (James I of England). Heriot’s School, founded by George Heriot, otherwise known as Jingling Geordie, still flourishes. The schools, only a few of them having undergone change in nature and in buildings, still exist. Education was held in awe, and the Scottish idea was that nobody should be denied this privilege. From the sixteenth century to the nineteenth century, the worthy and prosperous merchants and burghers of Edinburgh vied with each other to leave their fortunes for the founding of schools throughout the city. ![]()
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