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Douglas Academy is a non-denominational, co-educational, comprehensive secondary school serving the Milngavie, Craigton and Baldernock areas. In 2007 Douglas Academy was Scotland's top performing state school with 31% of students gaining five or more highers,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Top Marks for Douglas Academy in Government League Tables )〕 and with every year the school continues to rank among the highest in the country.〔http://news.stv.tv/scotland/206580-school-league-tables-breakdown-of-every-scottish-school/〕〔http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13207457.Jordanhill_School_in_Glasgow_tops_The_Herald_s_school_league_tables/〕 ==History== The school is named after the Douglases of Mains, who were a branch family of the Clan Douglas. The Douglases are an ancient clan, and subsequent noble house from the Scottish Lowlands who held vast territories throughout the Scottish Borders; Angus, Lothian, Moray, and in France and Sweden. The Douglases of Mains were related to the main branch through their common ancestor Archibald I, Lord of Douglas, a Scottish medieval nobleman born in the 12th century. The lands of the Mains, where the school is situated, were originally granted by the Earl of Lennox to Maurice Galbraith in the 13th century. The Galbraith Family held these lands until 1373, when a descendant of Lord Douglas's second son, Nicholas Douglas, married Janet Galbraith, the heiress of the Mains. Thus, the Douglas family inherited the extensive lands of the Mains, and were elevated to Lairds of the estate in the same year by King Robert II of Scotland.〔http://www.mera-milngavie.co.uk/mainsfinal.html〕 Subsequently, King Robert was Scotland's first Monarch of the House of Stewart (Stuart); the Scottish royal dynasty that would eventually oversee the Union of Scotland and England in 1606 through Monarch, and the Act of Union in 1707 that amalgamated the countries under one state named Great Britain. Thus, the history of the school is firmly cemented into the history of the British Isles, and with its infamous royal dynasty. The title became extinct in the 20th century; the last of the estate (including the house) was sold to Dunbartonshire county〔East Dunbartonshire Archives〕 and was subsequently used for the erection of the secondary school, Douglas Academy, in Milngavie prior to the death of the last heir, the 21st Lord of Mains, Lieutenant Colonel Archibald Vivian Campbell Douglas in 1977. The original school building served the site from 1967 until 2009, when it was demolished and replaced with a newer model. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Douglas Academy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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