Rectors and Head Teachers

Home Up The Miller Family Miller Academy Primary School Foundation Stone and Opening The West Public School Staff 1862-1909 Planning the New Building School Meals Holidays and Closures Discipline School Grounds and Premises The Dux of the School Mina Villa Rectors and Head Teachers After the 1872 Educatuin Act

First Rector - Andrew Miller Rector James Waters Rector William Keith Tait Rectors Macdonald, Pheade and McLaren Rector Thomas Greig Ironside Rector Alfred Murison

Rectors and Head Teachers of Miller Institution and Academy

Andrew Miller   M.A.                                        01.04.1862 – 03.09.1863           (approx.)

James Waters                                                    17.09.1863 – 09.04.1886           (died in office)

Interim Rector Mr Riach, Buckie

Farquhar Macdonald  M.A                                   14.01. 1887 – 02.09.1894         (first rector appointed by    School Board)

David Low Phease  M.A.                                   03.09.1894 – 08.07.1901

William MacLaren  M.A., B.Sc., F.R.G.S.           03.09.1901 – 28.10.1907

William Keith Tait  M.A.                                    28.10.1907 – 26.11.1919           (died in office)

Interim Rector Mr David Sutherland, Head of West Banks School, Wick

Alfred. R. Murison  M.A.                                   24.02.1920 – 01.09.1924

Interim Rector James F. Duthie

Thomas Greig Ironside  M.A., B.Sc.                   22.09.1924 – 02.04.1954

Donald Grant  M.A.                                           20.04.1954 – 04.07.1958          

John Dallas  M.A.                                              26.08.1958 – 21.10.1970

William B McIvor  M.A.                                    28.10.1970 – 30.06.1994

Acting Headteacher Wilma Miller                        16.08.1994 – 07.10.1994

Yvonne McCracken                                           24.10.1994 – 20.12.1996

Acting Headteacher Alexander Budge M.A.          06.01.1997 – 03.07.1997

Allan C Lannon B.A.                                          18.08.1997 – 10.1.2005

Acting Head Teacher Edith Mitchell                    January 2005 - June 2005

Susan Watson                                                   June 2005 - June 2006

Acting Head Teacher Lillian Wark                       August 2006 -  February 2007

Ann Warren                                                       February 2007 - Present