605:(1966), p. 152: "This George Hjort, born 13th August 1865, alive in 1958 in Stockholm, proved to be a great great grandson of Jean Smith, housekeeper to George Carnegie. He is the oldest F.P. of Fordyce Academy, and the last surviving Swedish beneficiary of the Smith Bounty, founded by George Smith, of Fordyce and Bombay, brother of Jean Smith — whereby Hjort was boarded, clothed, booted, and educated free of all cost at Fordyce 1876–79. George Smith by his will, made in Bombay 1789, in founding Fordyce Academy, granted preference of free education to descendants of his sisters for four generations... Jean Smith, 1734–1821, blacksmith's daughter, Fordyce, sister of George Smith, 1727–90, founder of Fordyce Academy, merchant, Bombay."
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schoolmaster and a good school building with one classroom, with a capacity of forty boys. The
Trustees were then holding investments valued at £10,297, producing an income of £308 a year. Out of that, £40 a year was paid to the schoolmaster, who also had the use of his house, and £25 to the minister of the Fordyce kirk, while £225 a year paid for the education of nine boys, who lived with the schoolmaster, Mr Largue. He was also allowed to take other boys into the school as private boarders, and at that time had about sixteen, and there were also a few day boys, making a total of thirty boys in the school.
273:. He allowed £25 a year for each such boy, the number to be determined by the income from the endowment. Smith's will also provided for the descendants of his sisters to have the same rights as boys of the name of Smith. This school was begun in a former public hall next to the kirk. A new schoolhouse was built about 1846, now a private residence called Fordyce Academy House. The two schools merged, and further new school buildings were built in 1882 and 1924, the latter called the New Academy. This now houses the village's
620:, Volume 29 (1868), pp. 324—325: "Fordyce. Visited Nov. 21, 1866. History. Management. Buildings. Finance. Teachers. Scholars. IIL— FORDYCE. Fordyce Academy is partly an endowed school, and partly a private boarding-school. Its history is as follows : — George Smith of Bombay, in 1790, left by his will a sum of money for the education and board of poor children of the name of Smith, at a school to be founded in Fordyce, their number to depend on the amount of funds annually at the disposal of his trustees."
644:, Volumes 7-9 (1986), p. 138: "Jean Smith's younger brother George went from Fordyce to India where he earned a considerable fortune. He died in 1790 in Bombay, and in his will he stipulated that his fortune should be the economic base for a school at Fordyce under the supervision of the burgh magistrates of Banff. This was the start of Fordyce Academy. Furthermore, in founding Fordyce Academy, George Smith explicitly granted free education to the descendants of his sisters, among them Jean Smith."
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Menzies's foundation gained further endowments in the late 17th century. Walter
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Swedish descendants of George Smith's sister Jean (1734—1821) took advantage of their right to be educated at the school under the terms of the "Smith Bounty". Smith had granted preference to his sisters' descendants for four generations, and the last of these was George Hjort, born in
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By the middle of the 19th century, the school had changed its name from
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288:(1788–1870), who both later became notable physicians, were at the Fordyce School together and walked there every day from the Findlater estate near Kilnhillock. The school's curriculum was then focussed on Greek and Latin, Modern Languages, and mathematics.
975:(1965), p. 9: Fordyce Stone No. 26:— "Sacred to the memory of Alexander Gray, A.M., for many years master of the Grammar School of Fordyce, and afterwards farmer in Rumbling Pots, born 26th June 1756, died 26th May 1820"
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73:2°44′47″W
718:Archived
705:, p. 432
228:Scotland
52:Scotland
29:Location
442:of the
234:History
220:Fordyce
145:Founder
107:Private
40:Fordyce
1084:(1952)
1077:(1936)
267:French
163:Gender
155:Closed
1027:age."
927:, in
543:Notes
271:Dutch
263:Banff
117:Motto
269:and
158:1964
103:Type
506:.
250:at
1094::
790:^
778:.
756:.
682:^
665:^
649:^
610:^
594:^
569:^
551:^
277:.
226:,
222:,
43:,
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