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The Statutes and Rules of James Gillespie's Hospital and Free School.
1802rif. 6725Edinburgh: Printed by D. Willison 1802. FIRST EDITION 8vo pp. 37 i. Extracted from a volume. Lightly foxed some soiling at front and rear short tear to title-page. A rare account of the will of the wealthy tobacco merchant James Gillespie of Spylaw 1726-1797 who left a substantial bequest some £2700 to establish a school for poor boys and a further amount for a hospital for the elderly. The hospital later became workshops for the blind and was demolished in the 1970s but the school remains in operation though having moved premises several times as one of Edinburgh’s highest-ranking state high schools with alumni including Muriel Spark Ronnie Corbett and Alastair Sim. Printed by D. Willison unknown
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