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Scotch College
Scotch College, Swanbourne, now a multi-campus independent Uniting Church early learning, primary, and secondary day and boarding school for boys, was founded in 1897 by the Presbyterian Church of Australia.
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The Alexander Scotch College.
The school began in 1896 with a donation of £500 offered to David Ross, the Moderator of the WA Presbyterian Church. The first location of the school was in the Shearer Memorial Hall, now the Perth Trades Hall. It was originally named The Alexander Scotch College.
Collegians House, the current admin building.
Drawing by Austin Platt, 1936.
References and Links
Gregory, Jenny 1996, Building a Tradition: A History of Scotch College, Perth 1897–1996, University of Western Australia Press.
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 19 February, 2022 and hosted at freotopia.org/schools/scotch.html (it was last updated on 7 December, 2023). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.