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Creswick Grammar School
Creswick Grammar School (founded: 1872) is a public high school located in Creswick, Victoria, Australia. History The school was founded by Samuel Fiddian in 1872. He also served as the school's first headmaster. The school flourished under the leadership of Samuel Fiddian who was acknowledged by many to be a great teacher and scholar. The school became co-educational in 1873 and attracted students from all over Victoria, Australia. Notable headmasters The notable headmasters of the school include: * Samuel Fiddian * James Robin Notable alumni Notable alumni of the school include:https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/1459150/404411 * John Percy Camm * David Waters Sutherland * Thomas Parkin * John Albert Leach * Frederick Hagelthorn * Arthur Trethowan * Frederick Brawn * Charles McGrath David Charles McGrath (10 November 1872 – 31 July 1934) was an Australian politician. Originally a member of the Australian Labor Party, he joined Joseph Lyons in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Creswick, Victoria
Creswick is a town in west-central Victoria, Australia, 18 kilometres north of Ballarat and 122 kilometres northwest of Melbourne, in the Shire of Hepburn. It is 430 metres above sea level. At the 2016 census, Creswick had a population of 3,170. Creswick was named after the Creswick family, the pioneer settlers of the region. History The area was inhabited by the Dja Dja Wurrung people before white settlement. The pioneer white settlers were Henry, Charles and John Creswick, three brothers who started a large sheep station in 1842. Creswick is a former gold-mining town, established during the Victorian gold rushes in the 1850s. The Post Office opened on 1 September 1854 but was named Creswick's Creek until around 1857. The population reached a peak of 25,000 during the gold rush. Today, local industries include forestry, grazing and agriculture. Creswick was the site of the New Australasian Gold Mine disaster on 12 December 1882, Australia's worst mining disast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Fiddian
Samuel Fiddian M.A. (1842 – 5 January 1904) was a schoolteacher, remembered as the first principal of Prince Alfred College in Adelaide, South Australia. He then founded a Grammar School in Creswick, Victoria, of which he was principal and proprietor from 1872 to 1903. History Fiddian was born in Castle Donington, a son of English Wesleyan Methodist Rev. Samuel Fiddian (1804–1880) and his wife Grace Burall Fiddian née Paull (1811–1879) and was educated at Woodhouse Grove, the school for sons of the Methodist clergy at Huddersfield. He spent 1859–1862 in Tasmania, where he taught at Horton College, before acquiring his MA at Cambridge University, where he was wrangler of St. John's College. He was for a short time mathematics master at Wesley College, Sheffield, then was brought out to South Australia in 1869 to take up an appointment as foundation headmaster of Prince Alfred College, which then operated from a schoolroom behind the Pirie Street Methodist Church, the Kent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Single-sex Education
Single-sex education, also known as single-gender education and gender-isolated education, is the practice of conducting education with male and female students attending separate classes, perhaps in separate buildings or schools. The practice of single-sex schooling was common before the 20th century, particularly in secondary education, secondary and higher education. Single-sex education is practiced in many parts of the world based on tradition and religion; recently, there has been a surge of interest and the establishment of single-sex schools due to educational research. Single-sex education is most popular in English-speaking countries (regions) such as Singapore, Malaysia, Republic of Ireland, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, South Africa and Australia; also in Chile, Israel, South Korea and in many Muslim majority countries.C. Riordan (2011). The Value of Single Sex Education: Twenty Five Years of High Quality Research, Third International Congress of the European ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria, Australia
Victoria is a state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state with a land area of , the second most populated state (after New South Wales) with a population of over 6.5 million, and the most densely populated state in Australia (28 per km2). Victoria is bordered by New South Wales to the north and South Australia to the west, and is bounded by the Bass Strait to the south (with the exception of a small land border with Tasmania located along Boundary Islet), the Great Australian Bight portion of the Southern Ocean to the southwest, and the Tasman Sea (a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean) to the southeast. The state encompasses a range of climates and geographical features from its temperate coastal and central regions to the Victorian Alps in the northeast and the semi-arid north-west. The majority of the Victorian population is concentrated in the central-south area surrounding Port Phillip Bay, and in particular within the metropolitan area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Robin
James Robin (pronounced ROE-bin) (14 November 1817 – 23 July 1894) was a prominent businessman in the early days of colonial South Australia. Several of his descendants were significant, in the Methodist Church and other fields. Also worthy of mention are his brothers Charles (c. 1826 – 27 November 1872) and Theophilus Robin (c. 1830 – 19 September 1874). Their father, Nicholas Robin (1788? – 5 January 1873), a citizen of Guernsey, was married to Esther de Quetteville (c. 1819 – 20 August 1855), daughter of Rev. Jean de Quetteville "The Apostle of French Methodism". He died at his home at St Jacques, Guernsey. History James Robin (14 November 1817 – 23 July 1894) was born on Guernsey and educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey, Elizabeth College. Around 1835 he left for Brazil, where he spent six years with the firm of Bramley Moore & Co, returned to Liverpool, where he established a shipping agency, and married a daughter (1820 – c. 1 August 1907) of Thomas Rowland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Percy Camm
The Surveyor General of Western Australia is the person nominally responsible for government surveying in Western Australia. In the early history of Western Australia, the office of surveyor general was one of the most important public offices. The first surveyor general, John Septimus Roe, was responsible for the laying out of many townsites, including Perth and Fremantle, and played a prominent role in the politics of the day. Another surveyor general, John Forrest, became Premier of Western Australia, and later a Cabinet minister in Australia's first federal government. In modern times, the position of surveyor general has diminished in importance. It remains a statutory office, and is housed within the current agency named Landgate. List of surveyors general of Western Australia This is a list of surveyors general of Western Australia. See also * Department of Lands and Surveys, Western Australia * Surveyor Generals Corner * Surveyor General of New South Wales * Surveyo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Waters Sutherland
Prof David Waters Sutherland CIE FRSE (18 December 1872–19 April 1939) was an Australian physician who ran the King Edward Medical College in Lahore and married Princess Bamba Singh. Biography He was born in Buninyong on 18 December 1872, the son of Wilhelmina Waters and her husband, John Sutherland of Allendale, Victoria. He was educated at Creswick Grammar School, then Melbourne University. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, graduating with an MB ChB in 1893, then took the exams for the Indian Medical Service. He subsequently qualified for the post-graduate Doctor of Medicine (MD). He was also a member of the (English) Royal College of Physicians (MRCP). Originally attached to the Indian Army as part of the Indian Medical Service he went to Bengal as a Surgeon Lieutenant in 1894. He served in the Chitral Campaign of 1895. He later served in engagements at both Malakand and Panjkora. He was promoted to Major in 1905 and in 1919 was Consult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Parkin
Thomas Parkin (7 April 1870 – 29 January 1936) was an Australian politician. He was born in Kingston to grazier John Parkin and Bridget Malone. He attended Creswick Grammar School and Geelong Grammar School and then worked for a Geelong wool firm. He served with the Victorian Mounted Rifles in the Second Boer War, in which he was wounded. He was a grazier and served on Creswick Shire Council from 1903 to 1936, with three terms as president (1908–09, 1917–18, 1926–27). In 1935 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the United Australia Party The United Australia Party (UAP) was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. The party won four federal elections in that time, usually governing in coalition with the Country Party. It provided two prim ... member for Allandale, but he died less than a year later at Kingston. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Parkin, Thomas 1870 births 1936 deaths U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Albert Leach
John Albert Leach (19 March 1870 – 3 October 1929) was an ornithologist, teacher and headmaster in the state of Victoria, Australia. Leach was born in Ballarat, Victoria and educated at Creswick Grammar School (where he was dux), Melbourne Training College (1890) and the University of Melbourne, where he graduated B.Sc. in 1904, M.Sc. in 1906 and in 1912 obtained his doctorate for research in ornithology. Leach was a regular writer and broadcaster on natural history subjects and introduced it into the school curriculum. He was President of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) 1922-1924 and Editor of its journal ''The Emu'' 1914-1924 and 1928–1929. He was a member of the British Ornithologists Union and a corresponding fellow of the American Ornithologists Union. Leach was also member of the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria. He was instrumental in founding the Gould League of Bird Lovers in 1909 with Jessie McMichael. He is best known as the author of ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Hagelthorn
Frederick William Hagelthorn (23 January 1864 – 21 July 1943) was an Australian politician. He was born near Ballarat to Swedish-born seaman Frederick Hagelthorn and Mary Robertson. He worked at the mines in Allendale, as a wharf lumper, and as a grocery assistant at Stawell and Horsham; he also returned to school, graduating from Creswick Grammar School in 1890. He established a store at Portland and then Horsham, where he then changed careers to become a stock and station agent in 1904. On 9 February 1905 he married Sarah Elizabeth Newton; they had five daughters. In 1907 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council for North Western Province. He joined the ministry as Minister of Immigration in 1909, moving to Public Health and Public Works in June 1913. In December 1913 he shed the Public Health portfolio, and in 1915 he moved to Agriculture. Hagelthorn left the front bench in 1917, and in 1919 attempted to transfer to South Eastern Province without success. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Trethowan
Sir Arthur King Trethowan Order of St Michael and St George, (14 September 1863 – 26 November 1937) was an Australian politician. Born in Creswick, Victoria, to auctioneer Samuel Trethowan and Charlotte King, he attended Creswick Grammar School before becoming an auctioneer at Numurkah, Victoria, Numurkah. On 9 November 1886 he married Jane Alice Manifold, with whom he had eleven children. Around 1898 he bought land at Berrigan, New South Wales, Berrigan, later expanding his interests to include property at Oaklands, New South Wales, Oaklands, Dubbo, New South Wales, Dubbo and the Upper Hunter. In 1907 he was elected to Urana Shire, Urana Shire Council, where he served until 1915; he was president in 1908, 1912 and 1915. An active member of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association of New South Wales, Farmers' and Settlers' Association, he was a councillor from 1909 to 1911, vice-president from 1911 to 1916, president from 1916 to 1920, vice-president again from 1920 to 1930 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
