Royal High School Former Pupils is a rugby union club based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Royal HSFP was a founder member of the Scottish Rugby Union, the second oldest national governing body in the world.

Hamilton classical Greek building on Calton Hill at Regent Road which it occupied until July 1968, when it moved to new premises at East Barnton Avenue in the western side of Edinburgh near Davidson's Mains.

The history is documented by Ross in a definitive work, William C. A. Ross, the Royal High School (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1934) The Royal High School was playing a form of "football" by 1810 (the word "football" here referring to a handling code, rather than one like soccer).

The Royal High School Former Pupils club was formally organised in 1868,[6] and was a founder member of the Scottish Football Union (future SRU) in 1873.

That Act of Council in 1851, which freed our Saturdays, should be held in high esteem by all our athletes, for it is the Magna Carta of our Cricket and Football Clubs.

[9] Bill McLaren recalls being chosen for a Scottish XV against the British Army for a game at Murrayfield on 15 February 1947, which contained two RHSFP players: T.P.L.

[10] Tom M'Glashan, was being still selected for Scotland in 1954, as the front row of a pack which contained three Macs, the others being Hugh McLeod and Robert MacEwen.