Hely Hutchinson Almond

Hely Hutchinson Almond (12 August 1832 – 7 March 1903) was a Scottish classics scholar, headmaster of Loretto School from 1862 to 1903. Early life Almond was born in 1832 in Glasgow, a son of the Reverend George Almond. In 1845, he entered Glasgow College, the secondary school of the university, where he was awarded the Cowan Gold Medal in the Blackstone Latin Examination and gained first prizes in Greek and Junior Mathematics. In 1850, he went on to Glasgow University, where in 1854 he graduated as a Master of Arts and was elected to a Snell Exhibition for postgraduate work at Balliol College, Oxford. Almond was also notable as an athlete and was a member of the Balliol rowing eight. At Oxford he also started playing rugby. Career In 1857, a distant relation, Charles Langhorne, headmaster of Loretto School, employed him as mathematical schoolmaster, and in the summer of 1859 he was appointed as second master at Merchiston Castle School, under Dr Harvey.