Fettes College (/ˈfɛtɪs/) is a co-educational private boarding and day school in Craigleith, Edinburgh, Scotland, with over two-thirds of its pupils in residence on campus.

In 1978 the College had a nine-hole golf course,[1] an ice-skating rink used in winter for ice hockey and in summer as an outdoor swimming pool, a cross-country running track and a rifle shooting range within the forested 300-acre grounds.

[8] In 1921 a war memorial designed by Birnie Rhind, bearing the inscription "carry on", was unveiled by Major-General Sir William Macpherson in the school grounds.

[22] An all-boys school until 1970, when female pupils were first admitted for the final year, Fettes became fully co-educational in 1983.

[27] In March 2009 Fettes won the Scottish Schools U18 Rugby Cup, at Murrayfield Stadium, for the first time[28] and in April 2009 Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education (HMIE) published a report on Fettes that evaluated the school as "excellent" in four out of five Quality Indicators and "very good" in the other.

[31][32][33] Former headmaster Michael Spens jokingly countered on a BBC documentary that "Eton College was the Fettes of the South!

"[34] In 2020 and 2021 six men accused Iain Wares,[35] who had taught at Fettes and Edinburgh Academy, of physical and sexual abuse at the schools when they were pupils in the 1970s.

[36] The Scottish Crown Prosecution Service was initially reluctant to prosecute the alleged abuser because of difficulties in seeking his extradition from South Africa—he had moved there—and his advanced age,[37] but South Africa approved the UK's extradition request, on six charges of lewd, indecent and libidinous practices and behaviour and one of indecent assault,[38] in 2020.

The lawyer representing Fettes made "a full and unreserved apology" to former pupils who had suffered abuse.

[40] The matter was discussed in the BBC Radio 4 series In Dark Corners with Alex Renton, which spoke to dozens of former pupils who alleged they were abused by teachers at Fettes College and at Edinburgh Academy.

In the documentary boys spoke of sexual and physical abuse committed by Wares, which the former students claimed was covered up.

[45] The college's main building, by David Bryce (built 1863-69), blends the design of a Loire château with elements of the 19th-century Scottish Baronial.

[46] The war memorial, a bronze figure of a fallen officer telling his men to "carry on" is by Birnie Rhind, 1919.

[47] The school crest is a bee because it appears at the top of Sir William's coat of arms and his seal (for letters, etc.)

Nevertheless, though inclined to be solitary by nature, he established some firm friendships among the traditionally famous athletic circles, at the school.

"[52]Fleming based his character on Sir Alexander Glen, an old boy of the school who was Winston Churchill's envoy to Belgrade during the Second World War.

The cover of This Time We Are All In The Front Line depicts a young Bond and Housemates leaving Fettes in uniform to rescue survivors of Luftwaffe bombing of Leith Docks in the Second World War.

Following the death of his parents (Sir James and Lady Elizabeth) in what seemed to be a laboratory accident, Brian accepts a fellowship at Darkmoor nuclear research centre.

Although he crashes his bike in a nearly fatal accident, Merlyn and his daughter the Omniversal Guardian Roma appear to the badly injured Brian.

[57] This iconic 1982 guide to the British upper classes, also known as "Sloane Rangers", described Fettes College as a "First XI" public school.

[61] Fettes also boasts a 2015 Nobel Prize winner in the economist Sir Angus Deaton, as well as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.