Fettes College est un organisme indépendant de l'embarquement et Day School à Édimbourg, en Écosse. L'ancien Premier Ministre Tony Blair est un groupe d'anciens.
4960 x 3623 px | 42 x 30,7 cm | 16,5 x 12,1 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
2009
Lieu:
Edinburgh Scotland
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Ian Fleming's fictional character James Bond was a former pupil at Fettes. History of Fettes: At first sight there would appear to be nothing to connect a Grand Tour of Europe in the winter of 1814/15 with the opening of Fettes College in the autumn of 1870. Yet the two events are in fact intimately connected. For it was while he was engaged on the Grand Tour that the 27 year-old William Fettes, the only child of Sir William and Lady Fettes, fell ill and died of typhoid fever. Thus deprived of his chance of establishing a dynasty, the grieving father turned his thoughts to how he should dispose of the substantial wealth he had accumulated, largely during the Napoleonic Wars. On his death in 1836 it emerged that he had decided to devote the bulk of his fortune to the establishment of a school, though for various reasons it was more than thirty years before his wishes were realised. The college's main building by David Bryce (built 1863-9) blends the design of a Loire château with elements of the 19th century Scottish Baronial. According to the school's website, the combination of styles and the site of the building led a modern architectural expert to praise it as "undeniably one of Scotland's greatest buildings.
