Heriot's Hospital, (then the name for this kind of charitable school) to care for the "puir, faitherless bairns was founded by George “Jinglin' Geordie” Heriot in 1624, Edinburgh, Scotland. It was completed just in time to be occupied by Oliver Cromwell's English forces during the invasion of Scotland during the Third English Civil War; the building was used as a barracks, with horses stabled in the chapel. The hospital opened in 1659, with thirty sickly children in residence; its finances grew, and it took in other pupils in addition to the orphans for whom it was intended.

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