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Old Photograph Loretto School House Scotland
Old photograph of Loretto School house in Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland. Musselburgh is the largest settlement in East Lothian, Scotland, on the coast of the Firth of Forth, six miles east of Edinburgh city centre. This is the oldest Scottish boarding school, founded by the Reverend Thomas Langhorne in 1827. Langhorne came from Crosby Ravensworth, near Kirkby Stephen. The school was later taken over by his son, also Thomas Langhorne. The last link with the Langhorne family was John Langhorne, who was master at Loretto from 1890 to 1897 and later headmaster at the John Watson's Institution. Loretto was the under the headmastership of Dr Hely Hutchinson Almond, a distant relative of Thomas Langhorne. The school's name derives from Loretto House, in which Langhorne was living at the time he started the school, which in turn was based on the dedication of a chapel to Our Lady of Loreto, which can traced back to the 12th century on the site of the school.
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