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Coordinates: 56°22′30″N 3°50′27″W / 56.37491°N 3.84076°W
Morrison's Academy 
Ad Summa Tendendum
("To Strive For The Highest")Location Crieff, Perth and Kinross, Scotland Information Type Independent School Established 1860 Rector Simon Pengelley Number of students approx 530 Morrison's Academy is an independent co-educational school in Crieff, Scotland, which provides nursery, primary and secondary school facilities. All who attend are day pupils and it draws many pupils from surrounding Perth and Kinross and Stirling.
History
Morrison's Academy owes its foundation to Thomas Morrison, a native of the village of Muthill. Born in Muthill in 1761, his mother belonged to Crieff. Thomas trained as a stonemason and, following some years spent working in Auchterarder, he moved to Edinburgh, set up his own business and made his fortune as the builder of a substantial part of the city's beautiful Georgian New Town.
Thomas Morrison, being a bachelor, had no children, so there was no danger of them spending all his money; instead he decided that, rather than letting his entire fortune fall into the hands of his relatives, he would tell his trustees, in the words of his will, to: -
"erect and endow an institution or institutions as to them shall appear best calculated to promote the interests of mankind, having a particular regard to the Education of youth and the diffusion of knowledge".
And he continues, "although I do not wish to confine this object to a particular place, yet I have regard in my views to the part of the country where I was born, and to the city of Edinburgh, where I long resided and acquired my fortune"
He finishes by saying "I rather incline to point at a new institution which may bear my name and preserve the remembrance of my good intentions for the welfare and happiness of my fellowmen".
Thomas died in 1829 and after a number of years of searching for a suitable location his trustees decided on Crieff, the part of the country where Morrison was born, rather than Edinburgh which was already well served with schools. They purchased the old market site where the cattle tryst used to be held before it moved south to Falkirk. The School opened for business on 1 October 1860.
School Houses
There are four school houses:
- Murrays,who are green for grass
- Campbells, who are yellow for fire
- Grahams, who are red for blood
- Drummonds, who are blue for ice
External links
Categories:- Category B listed buildings in Scotland
- Listed buildings in Perth and Kinross
- Schools in Perth and Kinross
- Educational institutions established in 1860
- Member schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference
- Scotland school stubs
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