Old photograph of Alexander Scott’s Hospital on Gladstone Road in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Built from bequest of Alexander Scott of Craibstone House for the maintenance of aged men and women. Huntly is the historic home of the Gordon Highlanders regiment which traditionally recruited throughout the North East of Scotland. William Milne, born 1785, died 1822, was born at Kennethmont near Huntly. He was the second British Protestant missionary to China, following Robert Morrison. He was the founding headmaster of the first Anglo-Chinese school, Ying Wa College, in 1818 at Malacca. This school was subsequently moved to Hong Kong by James Legge in 1843 and still exists. John Perie, born 1831, died 1874, a recipient of the Victoria Cross, was born in Huntly.
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