If you are interested in learning more about our school's namesake, please check out the Wikipedia article...here is a sample from it, as well as a link to it:

"James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose (25 October 1612 – 21 May 1650) was a Scottish nobleman and soldier, who initially joined the Covenanters in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, but subsequently supported King "Charles I as the English Civil War developed. From 1644 to 1646, and again in 1650 he fought a civil war in Scotland on behalf of the King and is generally referred to in Scotland as simply the Great Montrose."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Graham,_1st_Marquess_of_Montrose

In addition, there is an excellent biography by C.V. Wedgwood available, entitled simply Montrose.

Finally, Battlefield Band recorded a song about Montrose - here are the lyrics:

Father, father, tell me, why do the horsemen ride
Why do the troopers look so grim by Jamie Graham's side
Is it true that he's a traitor, father, tell me why
There's no' a man among them all will look him in the eye

Hide your eyes, my bonny boy, for the deed is a' but done
The headsman's axe will win the day, the Graham's race is run
For honour rode with courage, but evil rode with guile
And the darkest horse among them a' was the vengeance of Argyll

Hearken now, my bonny boy, as we stand before the kirk
Or does the thunder o' the horses' hooves hide a' the devil's work
For the Covenant's a Campbell mare that rides across the law
And ere a Stuart bridles her, a Graham's heid must fa'

I'll read you now a riddle by the shining o' the moon
When king and kirk sit down tae sup, wha needs the longer spoon
When Scotland hides her head in shame and justice looks awa'
And the scaffold buys an English throne wi' the bravest heart of a'