Royal High School, Edinburgh
The Romantic era at the turn of the 19th century caused an influx of foreign students, among them French princes. "Walter Scott stood head and shoulders above other writers". By the end of the Napoleonic Wars, an old scholar remembered, 'there were boys from Russia, Germany, Switzerland, the United States, Barbadoes, St. Vincent, Demerara, the East Indies, besides England and Ireland'. The Royal High School was used as a model for the first public high school in the United States, the English High School of Boston, in 1821.