William Fettes

William Fettes

male, deceased (1836)
Scottish, philanthropist, Lords Provost of Edinburgh, FettesCollege, Business Person
Sir William Fettes was a very wealthy Scottish businessman, who, in his will left a bequest of £166,000 which led to the foundation of Fettes C...
David Bryce

David Bryce

male, deceased (1876)
buried at Kensal Green Cemetery, FettesCollege, French, 16th century, italianate, midlothian
David Bryce (1803-1876) was a Scottish architect. Born in Edinburgh, he joined the office of architect William Burn in 1825, aged 22. By 1841,...
Ruthven Todd

Ruthven Todd

male, deceased (1978)
poet, Ruthven Campbell Todd, Memoirs of the Forties, Twentieth Century Verse, International Surrealist Exhibition, Dunmow…FettesCollege
Ruthven Campbell Todd was a Scottish poet and novelist, known also as an editor of William Blake, and as an artist. (Ruthven is pronounced...
John de Chastelain

John de Chastelain

male, 72 years old
Presbyterian, Canadian of Huguenot descent, immigrant to Canada, Canadian Ambassador to the United States, Canadian of Scottish descent, Canadian military personnel…Staff College, Camberley, Staff College, Royal Military College of Canada, FettesCollege
General Alfred John Gardyne Drummond de Chastelain, OC, CMM, CD, CH, LL.D., BA (born July 30, 1937) is a retired Canadian soldier and diplomat. He...
John Hay Beith

John Hay Beith

male, deceased (1952)
novelist, Playwright, Scottish, Soldier, carrying on, FettesCollege…St. Johns College, St John's College, Cambridge
Major John Hay Beith (Ian Hay) (April 17, 1876 - September 22, 1952) from Edinburgh, Scotland was a soldier, novelist, and playwright. He was...

John Simon 1st Viscount Simon

male, deceased (1954)
C.B.Fry, F.E.Smith, Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom, Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead, C B Fry, Liberal MP…FettesCollege, Wadham College, Oxford, Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford, All Souls College, Oxford
John Allsebrook Simon, 1st Viscount Simon GCSI GCVO OBE PC (28 February 1873 - 11 January 1954) was a British politician and statesman. Educated at...
Keith Arbuthnott 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott

Keith Arbuthnott 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott

male, deceased (1966)
78th Infantry Division, Deputy Lieutenant, British Military, British 51st (Highland) Infantry Division, World War I, Staff College…Staff College, Camberley, FettesCollege, Fettes alumni
(Robert) Keith Arbuthnott, 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott, CB, CBE, DSO, MC. (August 21, 1897 - December 15, 1966). He was educated at Fettes College...

Robert Walmsley

male
ministry of defence, Defence Equipment & Support, Parliamentary Select Committees, United Kingdom defence procurement, Cambridge Blue, British Civil Service…Queens' College, Cambridge, FettesCollege, Britannia Royal Naval College
Robert Walmsley was born in Aberdeen in 1941 and was educated at Fettes College in Edinburgh. He joined the Royal Navy as a Dartmouth Cadet in 1958...

Anthony Chenevix-Trench

male, deceased (1979)
Oxford University, Shrewsbury, eton college, prisoner of war, shropshire, second world war…FettesCollege, Bradfield College, christ church college
Anthony Chenevix-Trench (May 10 1919 - June 21 1979) is best known as the Headmaster of Eton College from 1964-1970. He was educated at Shrewsbury...
Robert Alexander Rankin

Robert Alexander Rankin

male, deceased (2001)
Garlieston, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, second world war, A.E. Ingham, university of edinburgh, University of Glasgow…Fettes alumni, FettesCollege, Clare College, Cambridge, Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge, Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge
Robert Alexander Rankin (27 October 1915 in Garlieston, Wigtownshire, Scotland - 27 January 2001 in Glasgow, Scotland) was a mathematician who...