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36-676: J.G. Lorimer 's Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf gives an account of Al Shagub in 1908. He describes it as a "Bedouin camping ground" that is "7 miles west of Dohah and a little north-east of Maraikh ". He goes on to write "there is a fort here with a masonry well, 6 fathoms deep, of good water inside; it is on the way from Dohah to Wajbah ." The district houses Education City 's university campuses, including Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar , Texas A&M University at Qatar , and Georgetown University in Qatar . The Qatar National Library

72-799: A Latin primer, in Dundee, and become bishop of Ross in 1574. Mary, Queen of Scots , also made an annual grant to the school in 1563, from the revenues of the church. The school moved into its first permanent home in 1589, a building in St Clement's Lane demolished to make way for the City Square in the 1930s. Among the masters here were Andrew Duncan , an academic and Presbyterian minister, and David Lindsay , later Bishop of Edinburgh , who crowned Charles I at Holyrood . Pupils were still expected to speak only Latin – to ensure which, their schoolmates were to act as "clandestine captors". Boys entered at

108-533: A hospital building built by the Trinitarian Friars before the Reformation; today it is the site of St Andrews Roman Catholic Cathedral. This new school, also founded by the council, was "to instruct young gentlemen in mathematical learning, and the several branches of the science with which it is connected". Its first rector, James Weir, described as "a gentleman of considerable abilities, but rather

144-618: A house in an area devoid of people at the time. During this period in Qatar, pools were exceedingly rare. The pool occupies a rectangular space of 8 metres (26 ft) by 6 metres (20 ft). There are also two other pools attached to the residence. The underground Al Shaqab station currently serves the Green Line of the Doha Metro . It is located on Huwar Street in Old Al Rayyan , near its border with Al Shagub. The station

180-649: A projector", took great interest in the problem of perpetual motion. The school closed down altogether in 1795 after its second master, James Ivory , had gone to be a professor at the Royal Military College . The academy re-opened in 1801, under Thomas Duncan, a brilliant mathematician: but after his appointment to the Regius Chair of Mathematics at the University of St Andrews in 1820 the school suffered. The author Robert Mudie also taught at

216-568: Is also in the district. Other facilities affiliated with Qatar Foundation are situated in Al Shagub and the nearby north-bound districts of Gharrafat Al Rayyan and Al Gharrafa . The Al Shaqab Equestrian Center is located towards the southern edge of the district. Al Shaqab Fort is found near the original site of the equestrian center. To the immediate south of the equestrian center is the Al Rayyan Municipal Office in

252-529: Is the home of Dundee High School Former Pupils' RFC ; it is also let out to other groups. The school holds an annual sports day at the Mayfield playing grounds in June where the four school houses compete against each other throughout the day. In 2019, the school was required to pay £60,000 as a result of unfairly dismissing the principal teacher of religious, moral and philosophical studies. The court found that

288-625: Is the only private school in Dundee. The school's rector is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference . The school has been registered as a charity in Scotland since July 1897. The school has origins in the Grammar School of Dundee founded by the abbot and monks of Lindores Abbey after they were granted a charter by Gregory, Bishop of Brechin , in the early 1220s to "plant schools wherever they please in

324-814: The British Raj in Punjab and the Northwest frontier province , he later served in the Gulf region as British Political Resident . He is most famous for his encyclopedia, the Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia . John Gordon Lorimer was born in Glasgow in 1870, a son of the Rev Robert Lorimer (1840–1926) a Free Church minister, and his wife Isabella Robertson. The Lorimer family

360-614: The Court of Session made under the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 , in May 1992. The school church is Dundee Parish Church (St Mary's) , continuing a tradition that has existed since its foundation in the thirteenth century, and services and concerts are regularly held in the church. The school has a total of 1040 pupils in prep-school and the senior school. Fees for the 2021–2022 session range from £9 618.00 to £13 650.00 per annum, depending on

396-617: The High School of Dundee , and the University of Edinburgh , Lorimer trained at Christ Church, Oxford for the Indian Civil Service. He was stationed first in Punjab and later in the restive Northwest frontier province . Passionate about languages, he authored a book on the grammar of Waziri Pashto in 1902. In 1903, he was commissioned by the British Raj to compile a handbook for British diplomats and agents in

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432-682: The University of Aberdeen ; William Wallace ; and James, John and Robert Wedderburn , authors of The Gude and Godlie Ballatis , one of the most important literary works of the Scottish Reformation. After the Reformation, the Grammar School came under the auspices of Dundee Town Council. Greek was added to the curriculum shortly after 1562, under the Master Alexander Hepburn , who would author Grammaticae Artis Rudimenta Breviter et Dilucide Explicata ,

468-461: The burgh ". Their rights were confirmed by a papal bull conferred by Pope Gregory IX on 14 February 1239. It is from this bull that the school's Latin motto " Prestante Domino ", translated as "Under the Leadership of God", is taken. Little information survives about the early grammar school: it would have taught a Latin curriculum to boys from Dundee and the surrounding area. In 1434,

504-531: The Agency to pay his respects. He is the older brother of David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer , Hilda Lockhart Lorimer and at least six other siblings. High School of Dundee The High School of Dundee is a private , co-educational , day school in Dundee , Scotland, which provides nursery, primary and secondary education to just over one thousand pupils. Its foundation has been dated to 1239, and it

540-638: The High School objected to this. The situation was worsened by a similar Act in 1878, and legal action looked inevitable, until an alumnus, William Harris, offered, in February 1881, to donate £30,000 for the purposes of higher education in Dundee on condition that the board give up all claim to the school. This agreement was incorporated in an Act of Parliament , the William Harris Endowment and Dundee Education Act, 1882. This act led to

576-413: The Persian Gulf region. Initially given only six months, he insisted on being granted more time to ensure the handbook was thorough. The result was the 5,000 page two-volume Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia . Its geography portion was only completed in 1908 and the history portion was finished & published in 1915, a year after Lorimer's death. Due to the secrecy of the document, it

612-456: The School are known as Headmasters, a unique reminder of this arrangement. From 1840, one of the directors was to exercise general supervision over the school as governor, or superintending director, with powers to "reform all abuses and irregularities". In 1859, a royal charter granted by Queen Victoria changed the name of the school to the High School of Dundee , and protected the rights of

648-733: The Subscribers. In 1877, a new curriculum was introduced, and an inclusive fee charged: prior to this, pupils had attended such classes as they chose. The independent future of the school was threatened by the Education (Scotland) Act 1872 , which made education compulsory and took over the running of parish schools from the Church of Scotland . Burgh as well as parish schools now came under school boards run by local committees, and similarly ancient schools in Edinburgh and Glasgow were taken over by their respective town councils. The Subscribers to

684-462: The Year 2008 by The Times . The High School of Dundee is situated in seven buildings in the city centre: There are also two main playing grounds, Dalnacraig and Mayfield , approximately one mile from the school, at which sports such as hockey , tennis, rugby , football , cricket , and athletics are played. Mayfield has undergone massive investment in recent years with new sports facilities, and

720-528: The academy from 1808 to 1821. For some years it had become apparent that the educational needs of the rapidly expanding burgh were inadequately met by the three burgh schools. In April 1829, a public meeting was held to consider the situation, where it was proposed to combine the schools within one building. Dundee Town Council had also been reviewing the position: following deliberations, it was decided that "the Magistrates and Town Council and all classes of

756-404: The age of eight, and stayed for seven years (two years longer than in other Scottish schools: in 1773, this was reduced to the customary five) at which point the boy could proceed to university. A boy had probably only two teachers in all this time: each of the three assistants, known as doctors, taught one class for three years, after which the rector would teach for two years. The English School

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792-433: The appointment of a single rector of the High School of Dundee, and the foundation of Harris Academy . Thanks to Margaret Harris, who waived her right to a life-rent of her brother's estate, a girls' school was built across Euclid Crescent in two stages between 1886 and 1890. A further Act was passed in 1922, and the school's current constitution is embodied in 'The High School of Dundee Scheme, 1987', sanctioned by an Order of

828-493: The community shall unite in joint efforts for enlarging and improving the means of education in Dundee". The schools hitherto under the patronage of the council were to be reconstituted and handed over to a new body of directors, of whom ten were chosen by the council, and ten by the subscribers to the new buildings. Thus, the three schools were united in 1829 to form the Dundee Public Seminaries , and in 1832-4

864-537: The district of Old Al Rayyan. Constructed in 1935, Al Shagub Well is one of Qatar's oldest extant wells . It was one of the few wells yielding good water in the area, the other main wells being located to the east in Doha . There is a wall and roof structure shielding the well, and there are two benches nearby. Another structure dating to 1935 is the Al Shagab Swimming Pool, which was built as part of

900-555: The ensuing furore the Town Council, which approved of Makgibbon's methods, intervened to prevent rival schools. Among other early masters was John Fethy, who left Scotland for Wittenberg from Dundee, having come into contact with Lutheran influences. He returned to Scotland around 1532 "the first organist that ever brought to Scotland the curious new fingering", that is, playing the organ with five fingers. Early scholars included Hector Boece , historian and first principal of

936-670: The magazine when he apparently overlooked a bullet present. The gunshot pierced major blood vessels, resulting in the loss of consciousness and death. His funeral took place the next day and he was buried at the Indo-European Telegraph Department cemetery. He was survived by his wife Marian Agnes MacLean (d.1959). He is memorialised with his siblings in Warriston Cemetery in Edinburgh and on his wife's grave in Dean Cemetery . His death

972-546: The master, Thomas Makgibbon, with the assistance of the (by-now Protestant) Dundee Town Council. However, John, the Abbot of Lindores , stepped in to take control of the school which his predecessors had founded, replacing Makgibbon nominally with the Vicar of St. Mary's, John Rolland, who was given the power to appoint substitutes; this he did, his substitutes opening schools in opposition to the Grammar School, poaching its pupils. In

1008-429: The present school, to the design of Edinburgh architect George Angus , was built, a neo-classical building designed as part of the civic improvements in Dundee. The school was opened on 1 October 1834. The total cost of the building, including the playground and enclosure (not completed until 1837) was £10,000, the greater portion of which was raised by public subscription. Though it had one building and one management,

1044-591: The teaching methods of the Master, Gilbert Knight, were challenged by John, Bishop of Brechin , who conferred Laurence Lownan as the new Master in Knight's place. Dundee was a hotbed of the Reformation , and St Mary's Church had, according to John Knox , the first truly reformed congregation in Scotland. The school itself was the earliest reformed school in the country, having adopted the new religion in 1554 under

1080-498: The three schools remained more or less distinct; conflicting claims for precedence led to no rector being appointed. The centre was assigned to the academy, the west wing to the Grammar School, and the east wing to the English School; the eight or nine headmasters acted independently, but presided in rotation over a Censor's Court, which dealt with matters of common concern. To this day, the heads of individual departments within

1116-612: The year of study. The High School of Dundee was among the first Scottish charities investigated by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator for the public benefit derived from their tax-exempt status, and was the first independent school in the United Kingdom judged to have demonstrated its charitable aims and "local and national benefit". The High School was voted Scottish Independent Secondary School of

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1152-582: Was founded by the burgh council in 1702, and was the successor to the pre-Reformation "Song School": it acted as a sort of elementary school for both sexes. It stood in School Wynd, by the city churches, near to the present site of the Mercat Cross . The Grammar School shared a building with it from 1789, though the two remained separate. In 1785, Dundee Academy was opened in the Nethergate, in

1188-589: Was intimately associated with colonial service; his maternal uncle (who served as a judge) was killed during the Indian mutiny of 1857. His younger brother David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer served as British vice-consul in Arabistan . His other brother Robert worked in the Indian civil service until he was dismissed for refusing to participate in a flogging . His younger brother William Lorimer and younger sister Hilda Lockhart Lorimer were scholars. Educated at

1224-552: Was mourned in the Persian Gulf region, particularly in Bahrain where the British Agency was closed as a sign of respect on the following day. Bahraini noblemen, merchants, and foreigners alike made their way at the Agency to offer their condolences. In an offer of commiseration, the ruler of Bahrain, Isa ibn Ali Al Khalifa , ordered the flags at his residence and at the customs house lowered, while his son Abdullah traveled to

1260-535: Was not acknowledged in his obituaries and public knowledge of the document only became apparent when the document was declassified in 1955. On the 8 February 1914, while serving as the British Political Resident in Bushire , Lorimer was found dead from a self-inflicted gun wound in the abdomen at age 43. A contemporary report stated that he was examining his pistol after supposedly emptying

1296-401: Was opened to the public on 10 December, 2019 along with the other Green Line stations. This Qatari location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . John Gordon Lorimer (1870-1914) John Gordon Lorimer CIE (14 June 1870 – 8 February 1914), also known as J. G. Lorimer , was a British diplomat , historian and colonial administrator . Working for

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