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St Aloysius' College

Motto	Ad majora natus sum (Latin)
Motto in English	I am born for greater things
Type	Private, Catholic, selective, fee-charging, Day School coeducational basic education institution
Established	12 September 1859; 165 years ago (12 September 1859)
Religious affiliation	Roman Catholic (Jesuit)
Chairman	Isabelle Cullen
Headmaster	Michael Burrowes (Acting)
Students	250 (Junior School) 550 (Senior School) 800 Total
Address	45 Hill Street, Glasgow, Scotland 55°52′00″N 4°15′49″W / 55.8667°N 4.2635°W / 55.8667; -4.2635
Alma Mater song	"Carmen Aloisianum"
Publication	The Gonzaga Eagle
Colours	Myrtle  and  Gold
Nickname	Aloysians
Website	www.staloysius.org

St Aloysius' College is a selective fee-paying, private, Jesuit day school in Glasgow, Scotland. It was founded in 1859 by the Jesuits, who previously staffed the college, and named after Saint Aloysius Gonzaga. St Aloysius' College is a co-educational school with a kindergarten, junior school, and senior school.

History

Foundation

The school was established on 12 September 1859 at Charlotte Street, near Glasgow Green, in the East End of Glasgow. Here lived the city's largely migrant Catholic community from Ireland and the Scottish Highlands, both of which groups the school was intended to serve. Since 1866, the College's main campus has been situated in Garnethill on the north side of Glasgow city centre, adjacent to the Glasgow School of Art. Originally, the school was for boys only. In 1979, the admission policy was changed by the Governors during the tenure of Headmaster Fr. Henry Anthony Richmond SJ and girls were admitted. Girls now make up half of the school population.

Buildings

Buildings include the original category-B listed Italianate Chandlery Building, including the administration block, library, and refectory. Its 1908 and 1926 extensions are known collectively as The Hanson Building, which accommodates classrooms for languages and the humanities as well as the school chapel and gymnasium.

The Mount Building, which originally housed the city's first Royal Hospital for Sick Children from 1882, which previously housed the junior school (whose patron is St John Ogilvie) as well as music, art and drama and the kindergarten. As of August 2023, The Mount Building is no longer being used by the school and Music, Art and Drama facilities have all been moved to the convent building, referred to by the school as the Performing Arts Centre, or PAC, while the kindergarten is now its own building.

More modern additions include the Clavius Building housing the Mathematics, Science, and Technology faculty and the Junior School Building, both of which have won RIBA architectural awards, and have been identified as amongst the best modern Scottish buildings.

In 2011, the number of buildings and the size of the campus increased with the acquisition of the Mercy Convent site and buildings. The building houses the schools music and art classrooms, as well as a drama and recording studio.

The school has a close relationship with the Jesuit parish church of St Aloysius next door. The church is regularly used by the college and Masses offered for both the junior and senior schools. The building is listed category A, designed by C. J. Menart in the baroque revival style and modelled on the Church of the Gesú, original Jesuit headquarters in Rome.

A new Sports Hall was recently constructed on the College campus, and open for use from August 2017. The school's main sports grounds are on the north-eastern outskirts of the city at Millerston.

Prefects of Studies

• 1859-60 - Fr James Corry, SJ
• 1860-61 - Fr John Biden, SJ
• 1861-65 - Fr Thomas Brown Parkinson, SJ
• 1865-66 - Fr Charles Wilson, SJ
• 1866-69 - Fr John MacLeod, SJ
• 1869-70 - Fr Anthony Foxwell, SJ
• 1870-71 - Fr Thomas Brown Parkinson, SJ
• 1871-73 - Fr James Maguire, SJ
• 1873-75 - Fr John Lea, SJ
• 1875-78 - Fr Francis Bacon, SJ
• 1878-80 - Fr Francis Scoles, SJ
• 1880-81 - Fr James Hayes, SJ
• 1881-82 - Fr Henry Parker Lander, SJ
• 1882-88 - Fr Peter Chandlery, SJ
• 1888-93 - Fr Gerald Tarleton, SJ
• 1893-95 - Fr Albert Kopp, SJ
• 1895-99 - Fr Edward Etherington, SJ
• 1899-1901 - Fr Patrick Flynn, SJ
• 1901-26 - Fr Eric Hanson, SJ
• 1926-32 - Fr Joseph Bullen, SJ
• 1932-38 - Fr Marcus Ambrose, SJ
• 1938-45 - Fr Thomas Sheridan, SJ
• 1945-49 - Fr Thomas Calnan, SJ
• 1949-56 - Fr Thomas Lakeland, SJ
• 1956-71 - Fr John Tracey, SJ

Headmasters

• Father William Forrester, SJ – (1971-1977)
• Father Henry Anthony Richmond, SJ – (1977–1991)
• Rev. Dr. James Hanvey, SJ – (1991–1995)
• Father Adrian Porter, SJ – (1995–2004)
• Mr John E Stoer – (2004–2013)
• Mr John Browne – (2013–2016)
• Mr Matthew D. Bartlett – (2016–2022)
• Mr Patrick Doyle – (2023-2024)
• Mr Michael Burrowes - (2024-) (Acting)

Junior School and Kindergarten

St Aloysius' College Kindergarten and Junior School in Glasgow support children from the ages of 3 to 12 years old. The kindergarten is situated in the Mount Building, while the Junior school is in a modern building along Hill Street. As well as attending lessons in the Junior school, the pupils will also receive preparation for the sacraments of Reconciliation, Confirmation and First Holy Communion as part of the school's three-fold tuition for their academic, social and spiritual lives.

Sport

Aloysius' rugby team won the Scottish Rugby U16 Schools' Cup Final in 2016, and in 2022, the U18 1st XV won the schools’ shield final.

Notable former pupils (Old Aloysians or O.A.)

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Arts and Media

• A. J. Cronin (1896–1981) – author

• Canon Sydney MacEwan (1908–1991) – singer
• Ian Bannen (1928–1999) actor
• James Loughran (1931-2024) conductor
• Tom Conti (born 1941) – actor
• Sean Scanlan (1948–2017) – actor
• Christopher Whyte (born 1952) – novelist
• Paul Coia (born 1955) – broadcaster
• Fred Morrison (born 1963) – musician
• Armando Iannucci (born 1963) – comedian
• Sanjeev Kohli (born 1971) – comedian

Academia and medicine

• Owen Hannaway (1939–2006) – historian
• Patrick J. O'Donnell (1948–2016) – university lecturer
• Prof Sir Harry Burns (born 1951) – Ex-Chief Medical Officer for Scotland, now professor of global public health at the University of Strathclyde
• Prof John Joseph Haldane (born 1954) – professor of philosophy

Politics and law

• James Marley (1893–1954) – politician
• Seamus O'Donovan (1896-1979) - IRA's top emissary to Nazi Germany
• John Thomas Wheatley (1908–1988) – Baron Wheatley, politician and judge
• Patrick Kavanagh CBE (1923–2013), senior police officer
• Joseph Beltrami (1932–2015) – Glasgow defence lawyer
• James Stuart Gordon (1936-2020) – Lord Gordon of Strathblane, CBE
• The Rt Hon Lord Gill (born 1942) – former Lord President of the Court of Session
• Michael Scanlan (1946–2015) – Former President of the Law Society of Scotland
• Gerald Malone (born 1950) – former MP
• Paul McBride (1964–2012) – QC, lawyer
• Austin Lafferty, (born 1959) former President of the Law Society of Scotland
• Polly Higgins (1968–2019) – barrister, author and international environmental lawyer, founder of the ECOCIDE initiative, advocate for the recognition of Ecocide as a criminal offence
• Martin McCluskey - MP for Inverclyde and Renfrewshire West

Religious

• John Maguire (1851–1920) – Archbishop of Glasgow
• Rt Rev James Black (1894–1968) – first bishop of Paisley
• Most Rev James Donald Scanlan (1899–1976) – former archbishop of Glasgow
• Rt Rev Stephen McGill (1912–2005) – former bishop of Argyll and the Isles and second bishop of Paisley
• Rev James J. Quinn (1919–2010) – priest, hymnwriter and ecumenist.
• Maurice Taylor (1926–2023), Bishop of the Diocese of Galloway
• Rt Rev Peter Antony Moran (born 1935) – emeritus Bishop of Aberdeen

Sports

• Charlie Church (1929–2010) – footballer
• Carlo di Ciacca (born 1977) – former rugby union player
• Dan York – rugby union player
• James Craig - rugby union - former Scotland international rugby union player
• Andy Walker (born 1965) - former football player for Motherwell, Celtic, Bolton Wanderers, Sheffield United, and Ayr United. Won 3 International caps for Scotland

Buildings

• Scott Street building
• Hill Street building
• Sports complex on Dalhousie Street, opened 2017.
• Junior School building

See also

• List of Jesuit sites

References

1. "The people's college | Tes Magazine". www.tes.com. Retrieved 25 September 2023.
2. ^ John V. McCabe, A History of St Aloysius’ College 1859 to 1999, St Aloysius’ College, 2000.
3. "St Aloysius Maths Building, Glasgow, Elder & Cannon Architects", glasgowarchitecture.co.uk, URL Retrieved 27 September 2006
4. Religious Life, St Aloysius College site Retrieved 24 January 2013
5. British Listed Buildings Retrieved 24 January 2013
6. "Our New Sports Facility – St Aloysius' College". community.staloysius.org. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
7. Junior School, St Aloysius College Junior School Glasgow Retrieved 24 January 2013
8. Kindergarten, St Aloysius College Kindergarten Glasgow Retrieved 21 February 2019
9. "St Aloysius' overcome Strathallan in U16 Cup Final showcase | Scottish Rugby Union". www.scottishrugby.org. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
10. National Schools Cup Final 2022/23 Match Reports, ScottishRugby.org, 7 December 2022, retrieved 11 December 2022
11. "Michael Scanlan". HeraldScotland. 28 October 2015. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
12. McCabe, John V. (2000). A History of St Aloysius' College 1859–1999. St Aloysius' College. p. 215. ISBN 0-9538287-0-0.
13. "Obituary: Charlie Church". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 21 October 2016.

External links

• Official website
• College Handbook
• St Aloysius' page on Scottish Schools Online

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Primary schools	Glasgow Gaelic School Lorne Street Primary School Eastbank Primary School Royston Primary School St Roch's Primary School
Private (independent) schools	The Glasgow Academy High School of Glasgow Hutchesons' Grammar School Kelvinside Academy St Aloysius' College Belmont House School
Public (State) secondary schools	Bannerman High School Bellahouston Academy and the School of Sport Castlemilk High School Cleveden Secondary School Drumchapel High School Eastbank Academy Glasgow Gaelic School Govan High School Hillhead High School Hillpark Secondary School Hyndland Secondary School Jordanhill School King's Park Secondary School Knightswood Secondary School and The Dance School of Scotland Lochend Community High School Rosshall Academy Shawlands Academy Smithycroft Secondary School Springburn Academy Whitehill Secondary School Catholic schools All Saints RC Secondary School Holyrood Secondary School John Paul Academy Lourdes Secondary School Notre Dame High School St Andrew's Secondary School St Margaret Mary's Secondary School St Mungo's Academy St Paul's High School St Roch's Secondary School St Thomas Aquinas Secondary School
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