List of people educated at Perth Academy

Perth Academy is a non-denominational state school in Perth, Scotland.

Alumni

Image	Name	Notability	Reference(s)
—	Ian Abbot	Poet	^[1]
—	Arthur Kinmond Bell	Distiller and philanthropist	^[2]
—	James Bisset	Artist, manufacturer, writer, collector, art dealer and poet	^[3]
—	Francis Black	Politician serving in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba	^[4]
—	Neil Cameron, Baron Cameron of Balhousie	Senior officer in Royal Air Force	^[5]
—	John Forbes Cameron	Mathematician, academic and academic administrator	^[6]
Aileen Campbell	Aileen Campbell	Scottish Government Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Local Government	^[7]
Colin Campbell	Colin Campbell	British Army officer and colonial governor	^[8]
—	Iain Donald Campbell	Biophysicist and academic	^[9]
—	Patrick Campbell	Vice-admiral in the Royal Navy	^[10]
—	Alastair Cram	Mountaineer, lawyer and British Army officer	^[11]
Arthur Dewar, Lord Dewar	Arthur Dewar, Lord Dewar	Member of UK parliament and judge	^[12]
—	Gordon Duff	Medical scientist and academic	^[13]
Thomas Duncan	Thomas Duncan	Portrait and historical painter	^[14]
—	David Edward	Lawyer and academic, and former Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Communities
—	Robert Fairbairn	Banker and cricketer	^[15]
—	John Forfar	Paediatrician and academic	^[16]
Patrick Geddes	Patrick Geddes	Biologist, sociologist, geographer, philanthropist and pioneering town planner	^[17]
Stephen Gethins	Stephen Gethins	Member of UK parliament	^[18]
Neil A. R. Gow	Neil A. R. Gow	Professor of Microbiology and deputy vice chancellor at the University of Exeter	^[19]
—	Camilla Hattersley	Olympic swimmer	^[20]
—	Mary Packer Harris	Artist and art teacher	^[21]
—	Atholl Henderson	Football player and coach	^[22]
David Octavius Hill	David Octavius Hill	Painter and arts activist	^[23]
—	Edward Lindsay Ince	Mathematician	^[24]
—	William Keiller	Anatomist	^[25]
Henry Littlejohn	Henry Littlejohn	Surgeon, forensic scientist and public health official	^[26]
—	David Low	Agriculturalist	^[27]
Fred MacAulay	Fred MacAulay	Comedian	^[28]
—	Robert MacDonald	Minister of the Free Church of Scotland
—	James MacGregor	Minister of the Church of Scotland	^[29]
—	John Sturgeon Mackay	Mathematician and academic author	^[30]
—	George Mathewson	Chairman of Royal Bank of Scotland	^[31]
Patrick Matthew	Patrick Matthew	Grain merchant, fruit farmer, forester, and landowner	^[32]
—	James McGhie, Lord McGhie	Chairman of the Scottish Land Court and President of the Lands Tribunal for Scotland, and a Senator of the College of Justice
—	Thomas McWhannell	Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly	^[33]
—	James Miller	Architect	^[34]
—	Stephen Milne	Olympic swimmer	^[35]
—	Robert MacGregor Mitchell, Lord MacGregor Mitchell	Lawyer, judge and member of UK parliament
Robert Pullar	Robert Pullar	Liberal politician	^[36]
—	John Monteath Robertson	Chemist and crystallographer	^[37]
—	Ronald Foote Robertson	President of the British Medical Association	^[38]
—	Condie Sandeman	Advocate	^[39]
—	Philip Scott	Professional football
—	Rhod Sharp	Broadcaster	^[40]
—	Jack Shaw	Businessman, former chairman of the board of directors and Governor of the Bank of Scotland	^[41]
Richard Simpson	Richard Simpson	Member of the Scottish Parliament	^[42]
—	Mili Smith	Professional curler	^[43]
Duncan Sommerville	Duncan Sommerville	Mathematician and astronomer	^[44]
William Soutar	William Soutar	Poet and diarist	^[45]
—	Brian Souter	Billionaire businessman	^[46]
James Stewart	James Stewart	Physician and missionary	^[47]
—	David Kinnear Thomson	Chairman and president of Peter Thomson (Perth) Limited
—	William Thomson	Mathematician and physicist	^[48]
—	Anthony Toft	President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh	^[49]
John Wishart	John Wishart	Mathematician and agricultural statistician	^[50]
—	Sandy Wylie, Lord Kinclaven	Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland

References

^ "Ian Abbot". Scottish Poetry Library. Scottish Poetry Library 2018. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
^ Weir, Ronald B. "Bell, Arthur". Oxford DNB. Oxford University Press.
^ Maxine, Berg (1998). "Inventors of the World of Goods". In Bruland, Kristine; O'Brien, Patrick (eds.). From Family Firms to Corporate Capitalism. Clarendon Press. p. 28. ISBN 978-0-19-829046-9. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
^ "Memorable Manitobans: Francis Mollison Black (1870-1941)". Manitoba Historical Society. 8 June 2018. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
^ "Sgt. N Cameron". Battle of Britain London Monument. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
^ "Cambridge Mathematical Tripos". The Dundee Courier & Argus. No. 14030. 15 June 1898. p. 5.
^ "Aileen Campbell MSP". www.gov.scot. Scottish Government. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
^ Stephens, Henry Morse (1886). "Campbell, Colin (1776-1847)" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 8. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 350–351.
^ "Professor Iain Campbell". The Times. 13 May 2014. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
^ Laughton, John Knox (1886). "Campbell, Patrick" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 8. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 390–391.
^ "Soldier-Lawyer Hero's New Honour". Dundee Courier. 2 November 1946. p. 3.
^ Mortimore, Roger; Blick, Andrew, eds. (2018). Butler's British Political Facts. Palgrave MacMillan. p. 147. ISBN 978-1-137-56709-3. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
^ "Duff, Sir Gordon (William)". Who's Who 2018. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2017. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.43452.
^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Duncan, Thomas" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 671.
^ The Bankers' Who's who. Indian Business Publications. 1964. p. 434. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
^ David Barr; Neville Belton (22 August 2020). "Obituary: Professor John Forfar, paediatrician". The Scotsman. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
^ Waterston, Charles D; Macmillan Shearer, A (July 2006). Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783-2002: Biographical Index (PDF). Vol. I. Edinburgh: The Royal Society of Edinburgh. p. 347. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 October 2006. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
^ "Stephen Gethins (SNP)". Kingdom FM. DC Thomson Media. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
^ Anon (2017). "Gow, Prof. Neil Andrew Robert". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U286513. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Advertiser, Perthshire (22 April 2016). "Dreams have come true for Perth swimmer Camilla Hattersley (21)". Daily Record. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
^ Tuck, Ruth (1996). "Harris, Mary Packer (1891–1978)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
^ "Community champion Atholl Henderson retires but leaves lasting St Johnstone legacy" – Daily Record, 29 December 2021
^ "David Octavius Hill RSA, his View from a Bridge in PerthRoyal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture". Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture. 20 May 2020. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
^ Cohn, P. M. (2004). "Ince, Edward Lindsay (1891–1941), mathematician". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/51632.
^ Burns, OR; Campbell, H.G. (1999). "The extraordinary influences of two British physicians on medical education and practice in Texas at the turn of the 20th Century" (PDF). Vesalius: Acta Internationales Historiae Medicinae. 5 (2). University of Paris: 79–84. PMID 11624232. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
^ "Sir Henry D. Littlejohn, M.D., LL.D.Edin., F.R.C.S.E". British Medical Journal. 2 (2806): 648–650. 10 October 1914. ISSN 0007-1447. PMC 2299842.
^ Waterston, Charles D; Macmillan Shearer, A (July 2006). Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783-2002: Biographical Index (PDF). Vol. II. Edinburgh: The Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 October 2006. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
^ "Fred MacAulay". BBC Radio Scotland. BBC. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
^ Ritchie, Lionel Alexander (23 September 2004). "MacGregor, James (1832–1910)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34729. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Gibson, George A. (1914). "John Sturgeon Mackay, M.A., LL.D." mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk. University of St Andrews. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
^ "Appointment of non-executive director". m.stagecoachgroup.com. Stagecoach Group. 8 May 2006. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
^ Calman, WT (1912) "Patrick Matthew of Gourdiehill, Naturalist", Handbook and Guide to Dundee and District, AW Paton and AH Millar (Eds), the British Association for the Advancement of Science, pp. 451-7 (see The Patrick Matthew Project » More On Matthew
^ "McWhannell, Thomas". www.parliament.qld.gov.au. 6 December 2017. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
^ "James Miller". www.scottisharchitects.org.uk. RCAMHS. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
^ Gallagher, Matthew (9 February 2016). "Perth swim star Stephen Milne hopes to reap benefits of pre-Olympic training trip to Oz". Daily Record. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
^ Pullar, Robert (23 September 2004). "Pullar, Sir Robert (1828–1912)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/61313. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Arnott, S. (28 February 1994). "John Monteath Robertson": 352. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1994.0020. S2CID 60974655. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ "Ronald Foote Robertson | Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh". www.rcpe.ac.uk. 8 February 2017. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
^ Who Was Who 1929–1940, p. 1193.
^ "Perth Date for BBC Presenter, Sharp". AllMediaScotland.com. 19 June 2012. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
^ Professor Tom Lee (2005). Giving an Account – Life Histories of Four Eminent CAs (PDF). Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. pp. 167–223. ISBN 1-904574-15-7. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
^ "Personal Information: Richard Simpson". Scottish Parliament website. Archived from the original on 18 July 2012. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
^ "Perth Academy's Mili Smith joins Scottish Schools' curling team". www.scotsman.com. 3 January 2017. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
^ "Duncan MacLaren Young Sommerville". MacTutor. University of St Andrews. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
^ "William Soutar (1898 – 1943)". The University of Edinburgh. 31 May 2017. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
^ Angus, Craig (6 May 2016). "Sir Brian Souter visited old school Perth Academy as part of an enterprise month". Daily Record. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
^ Ross, Andrew C. (25 May 2006). "Stewart, James (1831–1905)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36295. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "William Thomson". MacTutor. University of St. Andrews. 2007. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
^ "Anthony Douglas Toft, CBE". artuk.org. Art UK. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
^ "John Wishart". MacTutor. University of St. Andrews. Retrieved 23 August 2020.

[1] "Ian Abbot". Scottish Poetry Library. Scottish Poetry Library 2018. Retrieved 22 August 2018.

[2] Weir, Ronald B. "Bell, Arthur". Oxford DNB. Oxford University Press.

[3] Maxine, Berg (1998). "Inventors of the World of Goods". In Bruland, Kristine; O'Brien, Patrick (eds.). From Family Firms to Corporate Capitalism. Clarendon Press. p. 28. ISBN 978-0-19-829046-9. Retrieved 22 August 2020.

[4] "Memorable Manitobans: Francis Mollison Black (1870-1941)". Manitoba Historical Society. 8 June 2018. Retrieved 22 August 2020.

[5] "Sgt. N Cameron". Battle of Britain London Monument. Retrieved 22 August 2020.

[Dundee_Courier_&_Argus_–_CAMBRIDGE-6] "Cambridge Mathematical Tripos". The Dundee Courier & Argus. No. 14030. 15 June 1898. p. 5.

[7] "Aileen Campbell MSP". www.gov.scot. Scottish Government. Retrieved 22 August 2020.

[8] Stephens, Henry Morse (1886). "Campbell, Colin (1776-1847)" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 8. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 350–351.

[9] "Professor Iain Campbell". The Times. 13 May 2014. Retrieved 22 August 2020.

[10] Laughton, John Knox (1886). "Campbell, Patrick" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 8. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 390–391.

[11] "Soldier-Lawyer Hero's New Honour". Dundee Courier. 2 November 1946. p. 3.

[12] Mortimore, Roger; Blick, Andrew, eds. (2018). Butler's British Political Facts. Palgrave MacMillan. p. 147. ISBN 978-1-137-56709-3. Retrieved 22 August 2020.

[WW_2018-13] "Duff, Sir Gordon (William)". Who's Who 2018. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2017. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.43452.

[14] Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Duncan, Thomas" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 671.

[15] The Bankers' Who's who. Indian Business Publications. 1964. p. 434. Retrieved 22 August 2020.

[16] David Barr; Neville Belton (22 August 2020). "Obituary: Professor John Forfar, paediatrician". The Scotsman. Retrieved 25 September 2013.

[17] Waterston, Charles D; Macmillan Shearer, A (July 2006). Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783-2002: Biographical Index (PDF). Vol. I. Edinburgh: The Royal Society of Edinburgh. p. 347. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 October 2006. Retrieved 22 August 2020.

[18] "Stephen Gethins (SNP)". Kingdom FM. DC Thomson Media. Retrieved 22 August 2020.

[19] Anon (2017). "Gow, Prof. Neil Andrew Robert". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U286513. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[20] Advertiser, Perthshire (22 April 2016). "Dreams have come true for Perth swimmer Camilla Hattersley (21)". Daily Record. Retrieved 23 August 2020.

[21] Tuck, Ruth (1996). "Harris, Mary Packer (1891–1978)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 23 August 2020.

[record-22] "Community champion Atholl Henderson retires but leaves lasting St Johnstone legacy" – Daily Record, 29 December 2021

[23] "David Octavius Hill RSA, his View from a Bridge in PerthRoyal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture". Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture. 20 May 2020. Retrieved 23 August 2020.

[24] Cohn, P. M. (2004). "Ince, Edward Lindsay (1891–1941), mathematician". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/51632.

[25] Burns, OR; Campbell, H.G. (1999). "The extraordinary influences of two British physicians on medical education and practice in Texas at the turn of the 20th Century" (PDF). Vesalius: Acta Internationales Historiae Medicinae. 5 (2). University of Paris: 79–84. PMID 11624232. Retrieved 23 August 2020.

[26] "Sir Henry D. Littlejohn, M.D., LL.D.Edin., F.R.C.S.E". British Medical Journal. 2 (2806): 648–650. 10 October 1914. ISSN 0007-1447. PMC 2299842.

[27] Waterston, Charles D; Macmillan Shearer, A (July 2006). Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783-2002: Biographical Index (PDF). Vol. II. Edinburgh: The Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 October 2006. Retrieved 23 August 2020.

[28] "Fred MacAulay". BBC Radio Scotland. BBC. Retrieved 23 August 2020.

[29] Ritchie, Lionel Alexander (23 September 2004). "MacGregor, James (1832–1910)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34729. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[30] Gibson, George A. (1914). "John Sturgeon Mackay, M.A., LL.D." mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk. University of St Andrews. Retrieved 23 August 2020.

[31] "Appointment of non-executive director". m.stagecoachgroup.com. Stagecoach Group. 8 May 2006. Retrieved 23 August 2020.

[32] Calman, WT (1912) "Patrick Matthew of Gourdiehill, Naturalist", Handbook and Guide to Dundee and District, AW Paton and AH Millar (Eds), the British Association for the Advancement of Science, pp. 451-7 (see The Patrick Matthew Project » More On Matthew

[33] "McWhannell, Thomas". www.parliament.qld.gov.au. 6 December 2017. Retrieved 29 August 2020.

[34] "James Miller". www.scottisharchitects.org.uk. RCAMHS. Retrieved 23 August 2020.

[35] Gallagher, Matthew (9 February 2016). "Perth swim star Stephen Milne hopes to reap benefits of pre-Olympic training trip to Oz". Daily Record. Retrieved 23 August 2020.

[36] Pullar, Robert (23 September 2004). "Pullar, Sir Robert (1828–1912)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/61313. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[37] Arnott, S. (28 February 1994). "John Monteath Robertson": 352. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1994.0020. S2CID 60974655. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

[38] "Ronald Foote Robertson | Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh". www.rcpe.ac.uk. 8 February 2017. Retrieved 2 February 2019.

[39] Who Was Who 1929–1940, p. 1193.

[40] "Perth Date for BBC Presenter, Sharp". AllMediaScotland.com. 19 June 2012. Retrieved 23 January 2013.

[41] Professor Tom Lee (2005). Giving an Account – Life Histories of Four Eminent CAs (PDF). Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. pp. 167–223. ISBN 1-904574-15-7. Retrieved 23 August 2020.

[42] "Personal Information: Richard Simpson". Scottish Parliament website. Archived from the original on 18 July 2012. Retrieved 23 August 2020.

[43] "Perth Academy's Mili Smith joins Scottish Schools' curling team". www.scotsman.com. 3 January 2017. Retrieved 23 August 2020.

[44] "Duncan MacLaren Young Sommerville". MacTutor. University of St Andrews. Retrieved 23 August 2020.

[45] "William Soutar (1898 – 1943)". The University of Edinburgh. 31 May 2017. Retrieved 23 August 2020.

[46] Angus, Craig (6 May 2016). "Sir Brian Souter visited old school Perth Academy as part of an enterprise month". Daily Record. Retrieved 23 August 2020.

[47] Ross, Andrew C. (25 May 2006). "Stewart, James (1831–1905)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36295. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[48] "William Thomson". MacTutor. University of St. Andrews. 2007. Retrieved 23 August 2020.

[49] "Anthony Douglas Toft, CBE". artuk.org. Art UK. Retrieved 23 August 2020.

[50] "John Wishart". MacTutor. University of St. Andrews. Retrieved 23 August 2020.

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