Wishing all readers of this blog a very Merry Christmas.  I started this website in April, because there wasn’t much about Dr Halliday Sutherland on the Internet.  Of itself, this was not a bad thing, but for me the problem was that much of what had been written was by people with a political axe to…

In 1895, at the age of thirteen, Halliday Sutherland attended Merchiston Castle School near Edinburgh. In this second post of three, he recalls Rugby, Athletics, Swimming, Latin and Debating. Merchiston was not the home of music, but of Rugby football in Scotland. The school excelled in this, and to compulsory games and running I owe whatever…