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Old Photograph Wallace Hall Academy Scotland
Old photograph of Wallace Hall Academy in Closeburn, South of Thornhill which is located north of Dumfries, Scotland. The original Wallace Hall was founded by John Wallace, a merchant in Glasgow and a native of Closeburn, who left £1.600 for the purpose of erecting the Academy in 1723. The deed specifies distinctly the object he had in view: " To teach the whole children of the united parish of Closeburn and Dalgarno that shall be put to learn English, Latin, Greek, writing, and arithmetic, or such of these as the scholars or their parents shall desire, and that gratis, without any fee or reward other than is hereby provided for him, excepting any gratuity that the parents of the children may, out of their own good will, think fit to give him."
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