The Scottish Naval and Military Academy in Edinburgh was a school which opened on 8 November 1825.
[1] It catered for boys intending to have a career with the Army, Navy or the East India Company.
[2] It was re-formed as the Scottish Institute for Civil, Commercial and Military Education in October 1858 and closed around 1865.
[3] Captain John Orr (1790-1879) was the superintendent of the Scottish Naval and Military Academy for thirty-three years from 1831, having fought with the Black Watch in the Peninsular War and was wounded at the Battle of Waterloo.
[7] Another lecturer was William Swan, who taught mathematics and physics, and conducted some notable experiments at the Academy.