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The Greenock Academy was a mixed non-denominational school in the west end of Greenock, Scotland, founded in 1855, originally independent, later a grammar school with a primary department, and finally a Comprehensive school only for ages eleven to eighteen. [1]

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Air marshal

Air Marshal (Air Mshl or AM) is a three-star air-officer rank which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force.

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Alexander Carmichael

Alexander Carmichael (full name Alexander Archibald Carmichael, or Alasdair Gilleasbaig MacGilleMhìcheil in his native Scottish Gaelic) (1 December 1832, Taylochan, Isle of Lismore – 6 June 1912, Barnton, Edinburgh) was a Scottish exciseman, folklorist, antiquarian, and author.

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Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who is credited with inventing and patenting the first practical telephone.

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Allan Macartney

Dr William John Allan Macartney (17 February 1941 – 25 August 1998) was a Scottish politician who served as a Scottish National Party MEP for the North East Scotland constituency between the 1994 European Parliament election and his sudden death from a heart attack in 1998.

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Alphabet

An alphabet is a standard set of letters (basic written symbols or graphemes) that is used to write one or more languages based upon the general principle that the letters represent phonemes (basic significant sounds) of the spoken language.

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Annabel Goldie

Annabel MacNicoll Goldie, Baroness Goldie DL (born 27 February 1950) is a Scottish politician who was leader of the Scottish Conservatives between 2005 and 2011 and a Member of the Scottish Parliament between 1999 and 2016.

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Archibald Fleming

Archibald Lang Fleming FRGS was the inaugural Bishop of The Arctic from 1933 to 1949.

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Balamory

Balamory is a British live action series on BBC One, BBC Two and CBeebies for pre-school children, about a fictional small island community called Balamory in Scotland.

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Balliol College, Oxford

Balliol College, founded in 1263,: Graduate Studies Prospectus - Last updated 17 Sep 08 is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.

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BBC Scotland

BBC Scotland is a division of the BBC and the main public broadcaster in Scotland.

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Bolton East (UK Parliament constituency)

Bolton East was a borough constituency in the town of Bolton in Greater Manchester (formerly in Lancashire).

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Bolton South East (UK Parliament constituency)

Bolton South East is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Yasmin Qureshi of the Labour Party.

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British Overseas Airways Corporation

British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) was the British state-owned airline created in 1940 by the merger of Imperial Airways and British Airways Ltd.

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Clydeview Academy

Clydeview Academy is a non-denominational secondary school situated in Gourock, Inverclyde.

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Colin Campbell (Scottish politician)

Colin McIver Campbell (born 31 August 1938) is a Scottish politician and military historian.

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Colin Lamont

Colin Lamont is a media consultant, actor, writer, broadcaster, academic, educationist and polymath.

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Comprehensive school

A comprehensive school is a secondary school that is a state school and does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude, in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of selection criteria.

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Daily Mail

The Daily Mail is a British daily middle-marketPeter Wilby, New Statesman, 19 December 2013 (online version: 2 January 2014) tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust and published in London.

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Daily Mail and General Trust

Daily Mail and General Trust plc is a British media company, the owner of The Daily Mail and several other titles.

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Daniel Holmes

Daniel Turner Holmes (1863 – 7 April 1955) was a Scottish Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1911 to 1918 as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Govan.

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David Young (Labour politician)

David Wright Young (12 October 1930—1 January 2003), was a British Labour politician.

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Digital Spy

Digital Spy is a British-based entertainment, TV and movies website and brand, and is the largest digital property at Hearst UK.

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Diocese of The Arctic

The Diocese of The Arctic is a diocese of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land of the Anglican Church of Canada.

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Dugald Baird

Sir Dugald Baird (16 November 1899–7 November 1986) was a Scottish medical doctor and a professor of obstetrics and gynaecology.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann; Edinburgh) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Edward Caird

Edward Caird, FBA, FRSE (23 March 1835 – 1 November 1908) was a Scottish philosopher.

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Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland judges to be "eminently distinguished in their subject".

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George Heriot's School

George Heriot's School is a Scottish independent primary and secondary school on Lauriston Place in the Old Town of Edinburgh, Scotland, with over 1600 pupils, 155 teaching staff and 80 non-teaching staff.

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Glasgow

Glasgow (Glesga; Glaschu) is the largest city in Scotland, and third most populous in the United Kingdom.

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Gourock High School

Gourock High School was a non-denominational comprehensive school catering for boys and girls, 11–18 years of age, in Gourock, Renfrewshire, Scotland.

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Grammar school

A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school, differentiated in recent years from less academic Secondary Modern Schools.

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Greenock

Greenock (Grianaig) is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council area in Scotland and a former burgh within the historic county of Renfrewshire, located in the west central Lowlands of Scotland.

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Greenock Telegraph

The Greenock Telegraph is a local daily newspaper serving Inverclyde (the council area containing the towns of Gourock, Greenock and Port Glasgow), Scotland.

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Greenock West

Greenock West, also known simply as the West End, is an area of Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland.

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Hearst Communications

Hearst Communications, often referred to simply as Hearst, is an American mass media and business information conglomerate based in New York City, New York.

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Helensburgh

Helensburgh (lit) is a town within the Helensburgh and Lomond Area of Argyll and Bute Council, Scotland.

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Holy Trinity Platt Church

Holy Trinity Platt Church (also known as Holy Trinity Church, Rusholme), is in Platt Fields Park in Rusholme, Manchester, England.

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Independent school

An independent school is independent in its finances and governance; it is usually not dependent upon national or local government to finance its operations, nor reliant on taxpayer contributions, and is instead funded by a combination of tuition charges, donations, and in some cases the investment yield of an endowment.

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Inverclyde

Inverclyde (Inbhir Chluaidh,, "mouth of the Clyde", Inerclyde) is one of 32 council areas used for local government in Scotland.

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Isle of Bute

The Isle of Bute (Eilean Bhòid or An t-Eilean Bhòdach), properly simply Bute, is an island in the Firth of Clyde in Scotland.

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James Brunton Stephens

James Brunton Stephens (17 June 1835 – 29 June 1902) was a Scottish-born Australian poet, author of Convict Once.

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James Watt College

The James Watt College was a further education college in Greenock, Scotland.

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John Caird (theologian)

John Caird (15 December 1820 – 30 July 1898) was a theologian.

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John McIndoe (minister)

John H. McIndoe is a retired minister of the Church of Scotland.

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Me Too! (UK TV series)

Me Too! is a live-action television series on BBC Two and CBeebies for preschool children based around the large (fictional) community of Riverseafingal in Scotland.

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Mixed-sex education

Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together.

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Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland

The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland is the minister or elder chosen to moderate (chair) the annual General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, which is held for a week in Edinburgh every year.

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North East Scotland (European Parliament constituency)

Prior to its uniform adoption of proportional representation in 1999, the United Kingdom used first-past-the-post for the European elections in England, Scotland and Wales.

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Primary school

A primary school (or elementary school in American English and often in Canadian English) is a school in which children receive primary or elementary education from the age of about seven to twelve, coming after preschool, infant school and before secondary school.

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RAF Medical Services

The Royal Air Force Medical Services is the branch of the Royal Air Force that provides health care at home and on deployed operations to RAF service personnel.

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Richard Wilson (Scottish actor)

Richard Wilson (born Iain Carmichael Wilson; 9 July 1936) is a Scottish actor, theatre director and broadcaster.

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Ross Finnie

Ross Finnie (born 11 February 1947) is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician and former Member of the Scottish Parliament.

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Rothesay Academy

Rothesay Academy is a secondary school in the town of Rothesay on the Isle of Bute.

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Scottie McClue

Scottie McClue is the on-air pseudonym of media consultant, actor, writer and broadcaster Colin Lamont, who in 1992 as Senior producer and presenter at Red Rose Gold in Preston, created the persona for the Scottie McClue Mega Phone-In, networked on various Independent Local Radio stations across the UK.

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Scottish Conservatives

The Scottish Conservatives (Pàrtaidh Tòraidheach na h-Alba), officially the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, is the part of the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom that operates in Scotland.

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Secondary school

A secondary school is both an organization that provides secondary education and the building where this takes place.

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Songs of Praise

Songs of Praise is a BBC Television religious programme that presents Christian hymns that first aired in October 1961.

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St Columba's High School, Gourock

St Columba's High School is a co-educational six-year Roman Catholic, comprehensive secondary school, located next to Tower Hill Gourock, Inverclyde, Scotland.

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Walter Clarke Buchanan

Sir Walter Clarke Buchanan (20 June 1838 – 19 July 1924) was a New Zealand politician who became a member of the Reform Party that formed in 1909.

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Waterloo Road (TV series)

Waterloo Road is a British television drama series set in a comprehensive school of the same name, broadcast on BBC One and later also on BBC Three.

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West of Scotland (Scottish Parliament electoral region)

West of Scotland was one of the eight electoral regions of the Scottish Parliament that were created in 1999.

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West Scotland (Scottish Parliament electoral region)

West Scotland is one of the eight electoral regions of the Scottish Parliament.

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William King Gillies

Dr William King Gillies FRSE FEIS LLD (1875–1952) was a Scottish educator and academic author.

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William McLachlan Dewar

Dr William McLachlan Dewar CBE FRSE FRSA DLit (1905-1979) was a Scottish writer and educator who served as Headmaster of George Heriot's School from 1947 to 1970.

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Yacht club

A yacht club is a sports club specifically related to yachting.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenock_Academy

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