together on the faculty of the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand – the physicist Robert Jack and the mathematician Robert J. T. Bell. In 1914, Jack went out to take up the appointment as Professor of Physics at Otago, in 1920 being joined by Bell, appointed Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics. They were to be faculty colleagues until Robert Jack's retirement in 1947, Robert Bell retiring the following year. Both also served as Chairman of the professorial board and as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science at the university that had been built by yet another former pupil of Hamilton Academy, Robert Forrest of the firm of McGill and Forrest, contractors, Dunedin. (Refer to their entries on List of former pupils of Hamilton Academy.) Another former pupil of the school was John Cairncross, (1913–1995), a former Dux medallist at Hamilton Academy who went on to study at the University of Glasgow; the Sorbonne and Trinity College, Cambridge. A brilliant linguist and renowned author, in 1951 Cairncross confessed to spying for the Soviets, associated with the KGB's Cambridge Five (the "Ring of Five".) His brother was the economist Sir Alexander Cairncross, who also attended Hamilton Academy. Notable former pupils Professor John Anderson James Craig Annan Dr. Louise Gibson Annand (MacFarquhar) MBE Dr. Walter J D Annand Dr. Mary Nicol Neill Armour Dr. Ernest Macalpine (Mac) Armstrong CB LLD Frederick Stanley Arnot Professor Struther Arnott CBE Dr. Matthew Baillie Alastair Balls CB Professor Robert Thompson Beaty OBE Professor Robert J. T. Bell Dr. Archie Bethel CBE Craig Brown CBE Jock Brown Sir Andrew Bryan Professor John Cameron Bryce Sir Alexander Cairncross John Cairncross Professor Archibald Y. Campbell Sir George Campbell MP Sir Matthew Campbell KBE CB Thomas Cassells MP Sir Ken Collins MEP Craig Connal QC Sheriff Principal Graham Cox John McKinnon Crawford Professor William Cullen Professor Ian Deary Dr. James Stedman Dixon Dougie Donnelly Colin Douglas Laura Duncan Professor Ian Ford Professor Dr. John Samuel Forrest Sir Charles Annand Fraser Andrew Froude ISO Lord Robert Gibson MP Professor Douglas Alston Gilchrist Dr. Marion Gilchrist Alex Graham Brigadier Thomas Haddon CBE Alexander Hamilton CBE Dr. David Willis Wilson Henderson CB Sir John Inch CBE CVO Colonel Thomas Alexander Irvine DSO TD DL Professor Robert Jack Robin Jenkins OBE Lord Keith of Avonholm PC KC Sir Robert Hamilton Lang Thomas Laurie OBE Ian Lang Livingstone CBE OBE DL John