Engraving from Old & New Edinburgh - published 1890 Heriot's |
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Heriot's Hospital - from the south-west
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Heriot's Hospital - from the south-west |
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Here is a view of George Heriot's Hospital (now Heriot's School) from south-west There are many paintings, engravings and photographs of Heriot's school. One of its earliest photographers was William Henry Fox Talbot, on a visit to Edinburgh in the early 1840s. George Heriot, goldsmith to James VI, left funds in 1623 for the endowment of a Hospital for "maintenance, relief and bringing up" of poor fatherless boys , freemen's sons of the town. George Heriot died in 1624. The building was finally completed in 1660 at a cost of £27,000. The building is still the home of Heriot's School. It now has many more than its original 30 pupils. |
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