Brechin High School

Admissions

Alumni

• Dame Anne Begg MP, Labour Member of Parliament from 1997-2015 for Aberdeen South.
• Dorothy Geddes, FRCS OBE, Professor of Oral Biology at the University of Glasgow and the first woman to hold a chair in dentistry.
• John Gillies LLD FRS FRSE FSA, Historiographer Royal, 1793-1836.
• Thomas Guthrie DD, founder of the Ragged Schools of Scotland and Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland, 1862.
• William Guthrie, eighteenth-century historian and geographer.
• Kirstene Hair, Conservative Member of Parliament from 2017-19 for Angus.
• Catherine Hollingworth OBE, pioneering speech and drama therapist.
• Joseph Fairweather Lamb FRSE, Chandos Professor of Physiology at the University of St Andrews.
• David Low, Bishop of Ross and Argyll, 1819-1838 and Bishop of Moray, 1838-1850.
• George Low, naturalist.
• Alexander Ferrier Mitchell DD LLD, Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of St Andrews and Moderator of the Church of Scotland.
• David Myles, Conservative Member of Parliament from 1979-83 for Banffshire.
• John Pringle Nichol LLD FRSE, Regius Professor of Astronomy at the University of Glasgow.
• Robin Orr CBE, composer, professor of music and founder chairman of Scottish Opera.
• James Small DSc MRIA FRSE, Professor of Botany at Queen's University Belfast.
• Peter Spence, industrial chemist and pioneering alum manufacturer.
• Sir Robert Watson-Watt KCB FRS FRAeS, inventor of radar.
• David Will CBE, Vice-President from 1990-2007 of FIFA.