Cargilfield Preparatory School is a private co-educational prep school in Edinburgh

Edinburgh

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, Scotland

Scotland

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. It was founded in 1873.

Headteacher

The Headmaster is John Elder, whose most reported act so far has been to abolish homework

Homework

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Description

Cargilfield is a day and boarding school for boys and girls aged 3–13 and caters for approximately 300 pupils. It is Scotland's principal feeder school to numerous British private schools including Ampleforth

Ampleforth

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Winchester

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, and numerous others.

Sports at the school include rugby, netball, hockey, cricket and rounders.

Former pupils

• Torquhil Campbell, 13th Duke of Argyll
  Torquhil Campbell, 13th Duke of Argyll
  Torquhil Ian Campbell, 13th and 6th Duke of Argyll , known as Earl of Campbell before 1973 and as Marquess of Lorne between 1973 and 2001, is a Scottish Peer...
  
  
• Thomas Gillespie
  Thomas Gillespie (rower)
  Thomas Cunningham Gillespie was a British rower who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was killed in action in the First World War....
  
   Olympic rower
• Douglas Jamieson, Lord Jamieson
• Duncan Menzies, Lord Menzies
  Duncan Menzies, Lord Menzies
  Duncan Adam Young Menzies, Lord Menzies QC is a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland.-Early life:Menzies was educated at the independent Cargilfield Preparatory School in Edinburgh, before obtaining a scholarship to Glenalmond College, Perthshire...
  
  
• William Robert Ogilvie-Grant
  William Robert Ogilvie-Grant
  William Robert Ogilvie-Grant was a Scottish ornithologist.-Career:Ogilvie-Grant was educated at Cargilfield and Fettes College, Edinburgh, where he studied zoology and anatomy. In 1882 he became an Assistant at the Natural History Museum. He studied ichthyology under Albert C. L. G...