To perpetuate the memory of his only son William, who had predeceased him in 1815, Sir William Fettes (1750–1836), … 詳細

Fettes College follows the English rather than the Scottish education system. Pupils take English GCSEs rather than Scottish National Qualifications and students now have the choice between A Levels and the new … 詳細

There are currently nine houses: four for boys, four for girls and one for boys and girls. The houses are named after the estates of the first Trustees. The male houses are large period buildings which stretch from Eas… 詳細

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. According to the school's website, the combination of styles and the site of the buildin… 詳細

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.) was also a bee. When the college's arms were granted, they were Sir William's with the colours reversed… 詳細

A school tartan was designed in 1996 at the prompting of the Headmaster, Malcolm Thyne. It is a balance between the traditional kilt colours of green, blue and black and the Fettes colours of chocolate and magenta, wi… 詳細

In his first crime novel, Body Politic, published in 1997, featuring detective Quintilian Dalrymple and set in Edinburgh in 2020, Paul Johnston features Fettes College as a ruin, "blown to pieces in 2009" after it became … 詳細