[1] St Ninian's Preparatory School for boys was founded in 1879 by Arthur John Caswall Dowding and Reverend William Henry Churchill.
In 1887, the Reverend John William Rundall, who was Assistant Master at St Ninian's from 1882-1887, became the new owner and headmaster of the school, until his death in 1903.
[2] Following the death of Rundall, aged 44, ownership of the school passed to his widow Constance Ethel Pearse.
[9] A stained-glass window (by Charles Eamer Kempe) from the demolished school chapel, commemorating former St Ninian's pupils who died during the Second Boer War, can be found in the west window of St John's Church (Episcopal) in Moffat.
[10] There is a plaque in the church with the names and details of the ten fallen, among them Captain David Younger, VC.