Old travel Blog photograph of George Watson's College in Edinburgh, Scotland. The school was established according to the instructions of George Watson, born 1654, died 1723, who bequeathed the bulk of his fortune of £12,000, a vast sum in 1723, to found a school for the provision of post primary boarding education. Watson was never a member of the Merchant Company of Edinburgh, but he was impressed by their running of the Merchant Maiden Hospital and so he chose the Company to implement the terms of his will. After some years, the Governors bought land known as Heriot's Croft, located off Lauriston Place in Edinburgh, close to the Meadows and opposite George Heriot's School, and engaged an architect. The foundation stone was laid on 22 May 1738, and the building was completed early in 1741.
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