1900
City Road Mission site bought.
William H Balgarnie joins the School.
Balgarnie’s Mortarboard in the School Archive
A young man joined The Leys in 1900 who was to become possibly its most famous master. Balgarnie, whose nickname was ‘Uncle’, taught Classics until 1930, was Housemaster of West from 1901 to 1929, and Acting Headmaster in his final year, retired to live in Brookside, and was then summoned back in 1940 to teach at Pitlochry during WWII, retiring again in 1946. He died in 1951. After his first retirement he was well known for inviting all new boys across to Brookside and telling them stories about their fathers (or grandfathers) whom he had known as boys.