Gordon's College
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| Motto | Omni nunc arte magistra which translates to 'Now Is The Time For All Of Your Masterly Skill" |
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| Established | 1750 |
| Type | Independent day school |
| Head of College | Simon Mills |
| Head of Senior School | Andrea Angus, BSc, PGCE (to be succeeded by Mike Elder) |
| Chairman of the Governors | James Hutchison |
| Founder | Robert Gordon (philanthropist) |
| Location |
Schoolhill Aberdeen AB10 1FE Scotland |
| Local authority | Aberdeen City |
| Staff | 350 |
| Students | 1600~ |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 3–18 |
| Houses | Blackfriars, Collyhill, Sillerton and Straloch |
| Colours | Navy and Gold |
| Publication | The Gordonian |
| Former pupils | Gordonians |
| Website | www.rgc.aberdeen.sch.uk |
Coordinates: 57°8′55″N 2°6′9″W / 57.14861°N 2.10250°W
Robert Gordon's College is a private co-educational day school in the heart of Aberdeen, Scotland. The school caters for pupils from Nursery through to S6.
It originally opened in 1750 as the result of a bequest by Robert Gordon, an Aberdeen merchant who made his fortune from trading with Baltic ports, and was known at foundation as Robert Gordon's Hospital. This was 19 years after Gordon had died and left his estate in a 'Deed of Mortification' to fund the foundation of the Hospital. The fine William Adam-designed building was in fact completed in 1732, but lay empty until 1745 until Gordon's foundation had sufficient funds to complete the interior. During the Jacobite rising, in 1746 the buildings were commandeered by Hanoverian troops and named Fort Cumberland.
Gordon's aim was to give the poor boys of Aberdeen a firm education, or as he put it to "found a Hospital for the Maintenance, Aliment, Entertainment and Education of young boys from the city whose parents were poor and destitute". At this point all pupils at the school were boarders, but in 1881, the Hospital became a day school known as Robert Gordon's College. In 1903, the vocational education component of the college was designated a Central Institution (which was renamed as Robert Gordon's Institute of Technology in 1965 and became the Robert Gordon University in 1992). Boarding returned in 1937 with the establishment of Sillerton House. In 1989 RGC became a co-educational school.
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