Corrections and clarifications

This is not a haunted house putting in an early appearance for Halloween, but George Heriot's, one of Edinburgh's many private schools.

George was not, as many erroneously believe, a Yorkshire vet, but a famed Jeweller to James VI and his Queen, Anne.

George Heriot's School was founded in 1628, and is recognised as an important and outstanding example of Scots Renaissance architecture, displaying an exuberance of early 17th-century stone carving.

George Heriot's legitimate children all predeceased him, and he turned his mind to providing help to educate the children of his home town, Edinburgh. When he died in 1624, he left the princely sum of £23,625.10.3d to the city to fund the school, and also "imploy it for the maintenance releif bringing vp and educatiowne of Puire fatherless bairnes friemens sones of that Towne of Edinburgh". This is a tradition which continues today and which has been extended to include the education of motherless children.

At least one student from the school has gone on to achieve success as a celebrated photographer.