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{{Infobox school

 | name                    = The Edinburgh Academy
 | image                   = Edinburgh Academy frontage.jpg
 | caption                 =
 | motto                   = ''[[Αἰὲν ἀριστεύειν]]'' ({{small|[[Greek language|Greek]]}}) (Always Excel)
 | established             = {{Start date and age|1824}}
 | closed                  =
 | type                    = [[Private school (United Kingdom)|Private school]]<br/>[[Private schools in the United Kingdom|Private school]]
 | religion                =
 | president               =
 | head_label              = Rector
 | head                    = Barry Welsh
 | r_head_label            =
 | r_head                  =
 | chair_label             =
 | chair                   =
 | founders                = [[Henry Thomas Cockburn|Henry Cockburn]], [[Leonard Horner]] and John Russell
 | specialist              =
 | address                 = Henderson Row
 | city                    = [[Edinburgh]]
 | county                  =
 | country                 = Scotland
 | postcode                = EH3 5BL
 | local_authority         =     [[Edinburgh City Council|City of Edinburgh]]
 | dfeno                   =
 | urn                     =
 | ofsted                  =
 | staff                   =
 | enrolment               = 93 (Nursery)<br/>372 (Junior School)<br/>552 (Senior School)
 | gender                  = Mixed
 | lower_age               = 2
 | upper_age               = 18
 | houses                  = Carmichael<br/>Cockburn<br/>Houses (Dundas)<br/>Kinross
 | colours                 = Blue and White<br/>{{Color box|darkblue|border=darkgray}} {{Color box|White|border=darkgray}}
 | publication             =
 | free_label_1            = HMIE Reports
 | free_1                  = [http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/inspectionandreview/reports/school/primsec/TheEdinburghAcademyEdinburghCity.asp Report]
 | free_label_2            = School Song
 | free_2                  = Floreat Academia (May the Academy flourish)
 | free_label_3            = Former Pupils
 | free_3                  = [[List of people educated at Edinburgh Academy|Edinburgh Academicals]] ("Accies")
 | website                 = {{URL|http://www.edinburghacademy.org.uk}}
}}

The '''Edinburgh Academy''' is a [[Private schools in the United Kingdom|private]] [[day school]] in [[Edinburgh]], Scotland, which was opened in 1824. The original building, on Henderson Row in [[Stockbridge, Edinburgh|Stockbridge]], is now part of the Senior School. The Junior School is on Arboretum Road to the north of the city's [[Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh|Royal Botanic Garden]].

In 2023 the school was investigated by the [[Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry]] over numerous allegations by ex-pupils of historical abuse by several staff. The Academy later issued an acknowledgement and apology.

==Foundation==

In 1822, the school's founders, [[Henry Thomas Cockburn|Henry Cockburn]] and [[Leonard Horner]], agreed that Edinburgh required a new school to promote [[Classics|classical learning]]. Edinburgh's [[Royal High School (Edinburgh)|Royal High School]] provided a classical education, but the founders felt that greater provision was needed for the teaching of [[Ancient Greek|Greek]], to compete with some of England's [[Public school (UK)|public schools]]. Cockburn and Horner recruited John Russell as a co-founder and the three of them, together with other interested parties, put a proposal to the City Council for the building of a new school. The City Fathers gave their approval in 1823 and fifteen committee members were elected.<ref>{{cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=OsmR0k5R6W0C&pg=PA2   |title=Report by the Committee of Contributors to the Edinburgh Academy |date=1 April 1823|publisher=J. and C. Muirhead|page=2}}</ref>

==Buildings==

[[File:Edinburgh Academy War Memorial - geograph.org.uk - 1405057.jpg|thumb|upright|Edinburgh Academy War Memorial]]
[[File:Donaldson's, Edinburgh Academy - geograph.org.uk - 1405066.jpg|thumb|Donaldson's building, formerly the junior school of [[Donaldson's College]] ]]

The main building of the Senior School, with its Greek [[Doric order|Doric]] frontage, was designed by architect [[William Burn]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Cosh|first1=Mary|title=Edinburgh:The Golden Age|isbn=978-1-78027-258-0|page=659|date=2003|publisher=John Donald}}</ref> The stone used was principally from the nearby [[Craigleith Quarry]]. The Foundation Stone was laid in June 1823 and the school opened for the first session in October 1824. In 1892, new classrooms were built along the western wall of the site, and in 1900, the School Library was opened, followed by the new Science Block in 1909, both along the eastern wall. At the back of the school the Dining Hall, and the Rifle Range beneath it, was opened in 1912 and after [[World War I]], the Gymnasium was built. This was dedicated as a War Memorial to Edinburgh Academicals (former pupils) who had fallen during the hostilities of 1914 to 1918.<ref name="eahistory">{{cite web|url=http://www.edinburghacademy.org.uk/seniorprospectus/eahistory.htm|title=History of the School|publisher=Edinburgh Academy|date=2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071109105910/http://www.edinburghacademy.org.uk/seniorprospectus/eahistory.htm|archive-date=9 November 2007|url-status = dead}}</ref>

In 1945, a new building, Denham Green House, was acquired in the Trinity area of Edinburgh. This was used for the junior department (now known as Early Years) of the Preparatory School (now known as The Edinburgh Academy Junior School). In 1960, a new building for the upper three years of the Preparatory School was completed in Inverleith (Arboretum campus). Denham Green's nursery and early years facilities were relocated to purpose built accommodation on the Preparatory school's Arboretum campus in 1987. In 1992, the Rector's residence, ''Academy House'' and in 1997, a new Games Hall were constructed on the same campus. The latter was partly funded by money from The Lottery and Sports Council and is for the use not only of pupils in both parts of the school but also of the community in the area. A new computing and music building was completed at the Junior School in 2005 and a new nursery and after school facility in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.richardmurphyarchitects.com/viewItem.php?id=2406|title=Edinburgh Academy, New Nursery And After School Facility|publisher=Richard Murphy Architects|access-date=1 December 2023}}</ref>

At Henderson Row, the property next to the school, No 32, was acquired for administrative use in 1972 and in 1977, the Academy acquired the junior school of [[Donaldson's College]], to the west. This allowed departments to expand and a purpose-built Music School was opened on this part of the campus in 1991. In 2005 the 1909 science block was demolished and a new science block, the [[James Clerk Maxwell]] Centre, named in honour of the 19th century scientist and former pupil, was opened by [[Lord Falconer of Thoroton]] on 3 November 2006.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.edinburghacademy.org.uk/news/061107.htm|title=opening of James Clerk Maxwell Centre|publisher=Edinburgh Academy|access-date=20 November 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930020439/http://www.edinburghacademy.org.uk/news/061107.htm|archive-date=30 September 2007|url-status = dead}}</ref>

== Teaching ==
The Edinburgh Academy was originally a day and boarding school for boys. It opened its primary school in 1960 and its nursery in 2009.<ref>{{cite webpage|url=https://www.edinburghacademy.org.uk/384/welcome-to-the-nursery|title=Edinburgh Academy Website - Nursery}}</ref> While girls first arrived in the 1970s,<ref>{{cite website|url=https://www.edinburghacademy.org.uk/406/history|title=Edinburgh Academy Website - History page|publisher=Edinburgh Academy Archive Team}}</ref> it ceased boarding and transitioned to co-education in 2008 and is now a fully [[coeducational]] day school.<ref>{{cite news|title=Edinburgh Academy to stop taking boarders in £5m revamp|url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/education/edinburgh-academy-to-stop-taking-boarders-in-163-5m-revamp-1-1342664|publisher=Herald Scotland|date=29 March 2007}}</ref>

== Abuse==
In 2020 and 2021, six men accused a man later named as Iain Wares<ref name=renton/> of physical and sexual abuse when they were pupils in the 1970s.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Macaskill |first=Mark |date=9 May 2021 |title=More men accuse ex-Fettes teacher of historical abuse |location= London |work=The Sunday Times |url= https://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/more-men-accuse-ex-fettes-teacher-of-historical-abuse-7k9nbs9pd |url-access=subscription}}</ref> The [[Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service|Scottish Crown Prosecution Service]] was initially reluctant to prosecute because of difficulties in seeking his extradition from South Africa, where he had moved, and his advanced age,<ref>{{Cite news |last=McKenzie |first=Jamie |date=1 May 2021 |title=Crown decision not to extradite alleged Fettes abuser branded 'weak' by politicians as South African lawyers question it |url= https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crime/crown-office-decision-not-to-extradite-alleged-fettes-college-abuser-branded-weak-by-politicians-as-south-african-lawyers-question-position-3220942|work= Edinburgh Evening News}}</ref> but South Africa in 2020 approved the UK's request for extradition on six charges of lewd, indecent and libidinous practices and behaviour and one of indecent assault.<ref name=schoonbee>{{Cite news |title=Nicky Campbell teacher admits schoolboy abuse in court documents |last1=Cook |first1=James |last2=Schoonbee |first2=Karen |work=BBC News |date=6 August 2022 |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-62442766}}</ref>

On 27 July 2022, broadcaster [[Nicky Campbell]] disclosed that he had witnessed and experienced sexual and violent physical abuse while a pupil at the Edinburgh Academy in the 1970s.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2022-07-27 |title=Nicky Campbell: School abuse still haunts me |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-62308621 |access-date=2022-07-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite AV media|title=Different with Nicky Campbell: Edgar|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0cp3mw7 |type=Audio, 55'|date=2022-07-27 |website=BBC Sounds|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| last=Brocklehurst | first=Steven | title='I can't bear his blood in me' - sex abuser's daughter | website=BBC News Scotland| date=22 February 2023 | url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-64487433}}</ref><ref name="Nicky Campbell: 'Abusive teacher at my school'"/> [[Alex Renton]], a journalist investigating child abuse in private schools, reported that ex-pupils of Edinburgh Academy had named 17 other staff members, employed between the 1950s and 1980s, as physical and sexual abusers.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2022-08-04 |title=Boys 'abused by 17 staff at elite school' attended by Nicky Campbell |language=en-GB |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/boys-abused-by-17-staff-at-elite-school-attended-by-nicky-campbell-6ggrs6cxh |access-date=2022-08-29}}</ref>

From 8 August 2023, the [[Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry]] (SCAI) hearings in Edinburgh, before [[Anne Smith, Lady Smith]], took evidence from former pupils and members of staff of the Edinburgh Academy and medical experts.<ref name="Abuse survivors condemn Edinburgh Academy">{{cite news |title=Abuse survivors condemn Edinburgh Academy ahead of inquiry |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-66430810 |access-date=27 August 2023 |agency=BBC |date=8 August 2023}}</ref> When actor [[Iain Glen]] spoke out about his abuse in 2002, "the wrath of Morningside and Muirfield and Murrayfield rained down on his head with biblical fury because he'd broken the code, the Edinburgh [[omertà]]".<ref name=brooks>{{cite news| last=Brooks | first=Libby | title='The injustice hurts you more': survivors tell of abuse at Edinburgh academy | newspaper=The Guardian | date=30 August 2023 |  url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/30/weve-put-on-the-record-what-happened-survivors-tell-of-abuse-at-edinburgh-academy}}</ref><ref name="Boy 6 'Abused'" /><ref name="Scots school abuse survivor">{{cite news |last1=Mega |first1=Marcello |title=Scots school abuse survivor praises Nicky Campbell for bringing together ‘band of brothers’ |url=https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scots-school-abuse-survivor-praises-30748108 |access-date=27 August 2023 |publisher=Daily Record |date=21 August 2023}}</ref><ref name="Nicky Campbell 'haunted'">{{cite news |last1=Brooks |first1=Libby |title=Nicky Campbell 'haunted' by abuse at Edinburgh Academy, inquiry hears |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/aug/22/nicky-campbell-scottish-child-abuse-inquiry-edinburgh-academy |access-date=27 August 2023 |publisher=Guardian |date=22 August 2023}}</ref>

Also frequently mentioned was Hamish Dawson, deceased, whose affectionate appreciation from the Rector in September 1984 was contradicted by testimony from many reporting having suffered at his hands.<ref name="Chronicle p. 131">{{cite journal|title=Staff: several departures; Mr Hamish Dawson's retirement (section)|url=https://edinburghacademy.cook.websds.net/Filename.ashx?tableName=ta_publications&columnName=filename&recordId=225|journal=The Edinburgh Academy Chronicle|volume=91|issue=3|date=September 1984|page=131}}</ref><ref name="Nicky Campbell: 'Abusive teacher at my school'">{{cite news |last=Billen |first=Andrew |title=Nicky Campbell: 'Abusive teacher at my school was up there with Savile'|url=https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/article/nicky-campbell-interview-abuse-paedophile-iain-wares-allegations-panorama-6tvhzgc9r |url-access=subscription |newspaper=The Times |date=24 November 2023}}</ref><ref name="Child abuser worked as Father Christmas">{{cite news |last1=O'Mahony |first1=Marsha |title=Child abuser worked as Father Christmas in Gloucestershire stores, claims broadcaster Nicky Campbell|url=https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/child-abuser-worked-father-christmas-7411896 |url-access=subscription |newspaper=Gloucestershire Live |date=4 August 2022}}</ref><ref name=renton>{{cite news| last=Renton | first=Alex | title='Jimmy Savile mark II': why was an alleged child abuser able to move from school to school? |newspaper=The Guardian | date=24 November 2023 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/nov/24/jimmy-savile-mark-ii-why-was-an-alleged-child-abuser-able-to-move-from-school-to-school}}</ref> On 30 August 2023, the school issued an apology for both the "brutal and unrestrained" historical abuse and its consequences for "grown men deeply damaged as children".<ref name="Edinburgh Academy apologises">{{cite web |title=Edinburgh Academy apologises for 'brutal' historical abuse |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-66664457 |website=BBC |access-date=31 August 2023}}</ref>

On 30 November 2023, [[BBC1]] broadcast a ''[[Panorama&nbsp;(British TV programme)|Panorama]]'' programme 'My Teacher the Abuser: Fighting for Justice',<ref name="My Teacher the Abuser">{{cite web |title=My Teacher the Abuser: Fighting for Justice |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001sy42 |website=BBC |access-date=12 January 2024}}</ref> devoted to the history of abuse at the Edinburgh Academy and [[Fettes College]] and concentrating on the allegations against Iain Wares and the efforts to extradite him from South Africa.<ref name="My Teacher The Abuser review">{{cite news| last=Midgley | first=Carol | title=My Teacher the Abuser review — dealing with the slow-acting poison of abuse |newspaper=The Times | date=30 November 2023 | url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/my-teacher-the-abuser-television-review-suffering-relayed-with-haunting-clarity-2p8n72mws}}</ref><ref name="My Teacher The Abuser">{{cite news| last=Singh | first=Anita | title=My Teacher the Abuser: Fighting for Justice, review: courageous but chilling allegations of heinous abuse |newspaper=The Telegraph | date=30 November 2023 | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2023/11/30/my-teacher-the-abuser-fighting-for-justice-bbc-one-review/}}</ref> On 12 December 2023, [[Police Scotland]] announced that five former teaching staff aged between 69 and 90 had been arrested for questioning regarding alleged abuse incidents between 1968 and 1992, with one further individual to be referred to the authorities.<ref name="Five men charged">{{cite news| last=Horne | first=Mark | title=Five men charged over alleged historical abuse at Edinburgh Academy |newspaper=The Times | date=12 December 2023 | url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/five-arrests-over-sexual-abuse-at-edinburgh-academy-mkg3hm6z6}}</ref><ref name="Five men charged over alleged abuse">{{cite news| last=Brooks | first=Libby | title=Five men charged over alleged abuse of children at Edinburgh Academy |newspaper=The Guardian | date=12 December 2023 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/12/five-men-charged-over-alleged-abuse-of-children-at-edinburgh-academy}}</ref>

On 11 March 2024 at [[Edinburgh Sheriff Court]], an [[examination of facts hearing]] regarding John Brownlee commenced as, at 89 and [[demented]], he was deemed unfit to stand trial. Nicky Campbell described repeated physical mistreatment. Other pupils had reported similar cases.<ref>{{cite web  | first1=Calum|last1=Watson |first2=James| last2=Delaney| title=BBC presenter Nicky Campbell tells of abuse by 'sadist' teacher | website=BBC News | date=13 March 2024 | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-68553387}}</ref>

On 27 March, after over two weeks' testimony from 42 former pupils, the [[Sheriff]] ruled that Brownlee had repeatedly committed a number of violent assaults against children aged between eight and 11 years, spanning 31 charges as well as ‘cruel and unnatural acts’ at the school.<ref>{{cite book|url= https://www.copfs.gov.uk/about-copfs/news/edinburgh-teacher-found-to-have-persecuted-young-boys/ |title=Edinburgh teacher found to have persecuted young boys |date=27 March 2024|publisher=COPFS}}</ref> A spokesman from the Edinburgh Academy Survivors group afterwards described Brownlee as a "violent monster" who had caused "a lifetime of damage to everyone concerned".<ref>{{cite news| title=Teacher abused boys at Nicky Campbell's school | website=BBC News Scotland| date=27 March 2024 | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-68679000}}</ref> The evidence was also reported to have exposed a wider culture of complicity at the school.<ref name="Beatings, humiliation and a loss of self-worth">{{cite news| last=Carrell | first=Severin | title=Beatings, humiliation and a loss of self-worth: how Edinburgh Academy victims were scarred |newspaper=The Guardian | date=27 March 2024 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/mar/27/edinburgh-academy-john-brownlee-abuse}}</ref><ref name="‘Sadistic’ Edinburgh teacher">{{cite news| last=Carrell | first=Severin | title=‘Sadistic’ Edinburgh teacher found to have assaulted pupils for 20 years |newspaper=The Guardian | date=27 March 2024 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/mar/27/sadistic-teacher-john-brownlee-in-scottish-school-found-to-have-assaulted-pupils-for-20-years}}</ref><ref name="Edinburgh Academy teacher assaulted children">{{cite news| last=Lawrie | first=Alexander | title=Edinburgh Academy teacher assaulted children with a bat and snooker cue in sickening reign of terror |newspaper=Daily Record | date=27 March 2024 | url=https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/teacher-assaulted-kids-with-bat-32455730}}</ref>

The following day, 28 March, the school posted images on social media of pupils using 'clackens', the wooden bats previously used by a 'violent' Brownlee and others as instruments of correction. The images were subsequently removed.<ref name="Edinburgh Academy sorry">{{cite news| last=Horne | first=Mark | title=Edinburgh Academy sorry for images of wooden bats after abuse verdict |newspaper=The Times | date=2 April 2024 | url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/edinburgh-academy-image-pupils-wooden-bats-former-teacher-guilty-905vbfldv}}</ref> A school spokeswoman later said they had decided against banning the clacken for sporting use.<ref name="Edinburgh school considers ban on bats">{{cite news| last=Dalgetty | first=Lee | title=Nicky Campbell's former Edinburgh school considers ban on bats used to hit him |newspaper=Edinburgh Live | date=1 October 2024 | url=https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/nicky-campbells-former-edinburgh-school-30042331}}</ref>

==Notable alumni==
{{See also|List of people educated at Edinburgh Academy}}

Former pupils of the Edinburgh Academy are known as ''Academicals'', or ''Accies'', a name shared with the [[Edinburgh Academical Football Club|associated rugby club]].<ref>{{cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=MAGpCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA34 |title=Elite Education International Perspectives|year=2015|first1=Claire |last1=Maxwell|first2= Peter|last2= Aggleton|publisher=Taylor and Francis|page=34|isbn=978-1317628811}}</ref>

Famous alumni of the school include [[Robert Louis Stevenson]], [[James Clerk Maxwell]], [[Nicky Campbell]], [[Magnus Magnusson]], [[Baron Falconer of Thoroton]], [[Mike Blair]], and Iain Glen. It has also produced one [[Nobel Prize]] winner ([[J. Michael Kosterlitz]]), numerous political and legal figures, several rugby internationals and nine recipients of the Victoria Cross; the highest number of any school in Scotland. According to the [[Sutton Trust]], the school is placed second in Scotland and joint 36th in the UK for the number of the nation's leading people produced.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Educational Backgrounds of the Nation's Leading People|url=https://www.suttontrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/TOP-People-report-final.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160812101058/http://www.suttontrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/TOP-People-report-final.pdf|archive-date=12 August 2016|publisher=Sutton Trust|date=November 2012}}</ref>

==Rectors==
Rectors of The Edinburgh Academy since it was founded in 1824:<ref name="eahistory" />
* 1824–1828: [[John Williams (1792–1858)|John Williams]]
* 1828–1829: Thomas Sheepshanks
* 1829–1847: John Williams, again
* 1847–1854: John Hannah
* 1854–1869: [[James Stephen Hodson]]
* 1869–1888: Thomas Harvey
* 1888–1901: Robert Mackenzie
* 1901–1910: [[Reginald Carter (headmaster)|Reginald Carter]]
* 1910–1926: Robert Ferard
* 1926–1931: [[P. H. B. Lyon|Hugh Lyon]]
* 1931–1945: Lionel Smith<ref name="Dalyell">{{cite news |last1=Dalyell |first1=Tam |title=William Prosser: Lawyer and administrator who bestrode both the legal world and the artistic scene of his native Edinburgh |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/william-prosser-lawyer-and-administrator-who-bestrode-both-the-legal-world-and-the-artistic-scene-of-10318871.html |access-date=28 October 2018 |work=Independent |date=14 June 2015}}</ref>
* 1945–1951: [[Clarence Seaman]]<ref name="Dalyell"/>
* 1951–1962: Robert Watt
* 1962–1977: Herbert Mills
* 1977–1992: Laurence Ellis
* 1992–1995: John Rees
* 1995–2008: John Light
* 2008–2017: Marco Longmore<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.edinburghacademy.org.uk/About_the_Academy/Rectors_Welcome|title=Rector's Welcome|access-date=5 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220061105/http://www.edinburghacademy.org.uk/About_the_Academy/Rectors_Welcome|archive-date=20 December 2016|url-status = dead}}</ref>
* 2017–present: Barry Welsh<ref>{{Cite web |title=Meet our Leadership Team |author= |publisher=The Edinburgh Academy |date= |access-date=6 August 2022 |url= https://www.edinburghacademy.org.uk/405/meet-our-leadership-team}}</ref>

==Other notable staff==
* [[D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (Galway)|D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson]], classicist, taught at the school from 1852 to 1863<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803104249564|title=D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson|publisher=Oxford Reference|access-date=1 December 2023}}</ref>
* [[Arthur John Pressland|Arthur Pressland FRSE]] (1865–1934), educational theorist, linguist, schoolmaster and writer<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Eagle/Eagle%20Chapters/Obituaries/Obituary_1930s.pdf|page=196|title=Obituary: Arthur John Pressland|publisher=St John's College, Cambridge|access-date=1 December 2023}}</ref>
* [[W. P. D. Wightman]] [[FRSE]], Science Master from 1923 to 1951<ref>{{Cite journal |jstor = 4026554|title = Obituary: William Persehouse Delisle Wightman: 4 June 1899-15 January 1983|journal = The British Journal for the History of Science|volume = 17|issue = 2|pages = 214–216|last1 = Smeaton|first1 = W. A.|year = 1984|doi = 10.1017/S000708740002094X|doi-access = free}}</ref>
* [[Jack Mendl]] (1911-2001), taught at the school from 1950 to 1977, also played cricket at first-class level<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/jack-mendl-2507538|title=Jack Mendl|date=1 November 2001|newspaper=The Scotsman|access-date=1 December 2023}}</ref>
* Hamish Dawson (1927-2009), predatory teacher known for his "arbitrary and sadistic punishments",<ref name=brooks/> who later found work as a department store Father Christmas in Gloucester<ref name="Nicky Campbell: 'Abusive teacher at my school'"/><ref name="Child abuser worked as Father Christmas">{{cite news |last1=O'Mahony |first1=Marsha |title=Child abuser worked as Father Christmas in Gloucestershire stores, claims broadcaster Nicky Campbell|url=https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/child-abuser-worked-father-christmas-7411896 |url-access=subscription |newspaper=Gloucestershire Live |date=4 August 2022}}</ref>
* John Brownlee (b.1935), teacher and physical and mental abuser deemed too unwell to stand trial in 2023, and in March 2024 found to have repeatedly committed a number of violent assaults against pupils<ref name="Boy 6 'Abused'">{{cite news |last1=Horne |first1=Marc |title=Boy, 6, 'abused with hose for wetting bed at Edinburgh Academy'|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/boy-6-abused-with-hose-for-wetting-bed-at-edinburgh-academy-qnww0dpnp |url-access=subscription |newspaper=The Times |date=16 August 2023}}</ref><ref name="Beatings, humiliation and a loss of self-worth">{{cite news| last=Carrell | first=Severin | title=Beatings, humiliation and a loss of self-worth: how Edinburgh Academy victims were scarred |newspaper=The Guardian | date=27 March 2024 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/mar/27/edinburgh-academy-john-brownlee-abuse}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| last=Brooks | first=Libby | title=Former Edinburgh Academy teacher accused of torture will not stand trial |newspaper=The Guardian | date=30 November 2023 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/30/former-edinburgh-academy-teacher-john-brownlee-accused-of-torture-will-not-stand-trial}}</ref>
* Jake Young (b.1935), gym teacher arrested and charged<ref name="Five men charged">{{cite news| last=Horne | first=Mark | title=Five men charged over alleged historical abuse at Edinburgh Academy |newspaper=The Times | date=12 December 2023 | url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/five-arrests-over-sexual-abuse-at-edinburgh-academy-mkg3hm6z6}}</ref>
* Iain Wares (b.1939/40), teacher who sexually abused boys at [[Fettes College]] and the Edinburgh Academy with impunity over many years,<ref name=renton/><ref name=brooks/> exposed in the November 2023 BBC1 ''Panorama'' programme 'My Teacher the Abuser: Fighting for Justice'<ref name="My Teacher the Abuser">{{cite web |title=My Teacher the Abuser: Fighting for Justice |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001sy42 |website=BBC |access-date=12 January 2024}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of schools in Edinburgh]]
* [[List of independent schools in Scotland]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
* [[Magnus Magnusson]] (1974), ''The Clacken and the Slate'', Collins, London. {{ISBN|0-00-411170-2}}
* Edinburgh Academical Club (1995), ''List of Past and Present Pupils 1824-1995'', Edinburgh Academical Club
* Stirling, Bill (1999), ''175 Accies'', Edinburgh Academical Club

==External links==
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* [http://www.edinburghacademy.org.uk/ The School website]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070129124734/http://www.scottishschoolsonline.gov.uk/schools/edinburghacademyschooltheedinburghcity.asp Edinburgh Academy's page on Scottish Schools Online]

{{Schools in Edinburgh}}

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