| Administrative History | The institution now known as Blairs College was founded in the 18th century as a Catholic seminary in Chapeltown, Glenlivet, under protection of the Catholic Dukes of Gordon. In 1829, the year of Catholic emancipation, the college was removed to Peterculter, near Aberdeen, to become Blairs College: at the same time Aquorties School, a seminary since 1799, and Lismore School were removed to the same site to become amalgamated. The Blairs estate had been donated for the purpose by John Menzies of Pitfodels, a lifelong and devout Catholic from a traditionally Catholic family. A new chapel, dedicated, like the college, to St. Mary, was built in 1901. The College's extensive library is now held in the National Library of Scotland.
James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth (1648 - 1716), Scottish politician and Jacobite exile. |