Miss Margaret S. Cook
First Headmistress, 1913 – 1942
from the Golden Jubilee booklet
published in 1963
A photographic portrait of Miss Cook which hung
in the school for many years after her retirement
from the 1935 School Photographic Album
from the 1938 School Photographic Album
Brief Biographical Details
Margaret Shankland Cook
Birth: 17 February 1878, Kirkconnel, Dumfries-shire, Scotland
Death: 4 January 1965, Edinburgh; her grave is to be found in Morton Cemetery, Thornhill, Dumfries-shire
Education
Wallace Hall Academy
St. Andrews L.L.A. (1898)
Schoolmaster’s Diploma (General Diploma), Edinburgh, July 1899
Edinburgh University, M.A., (1899)
Headmistress: 1 September 1913 to 28 April 1942