Ormond College is the largest of the
residential college
A residential college is a division of a university that places academic activity in a community setting of students and faculty, usually at a residence and with shared meals, the college having a degree of autonomy and a federated relationship wi ...
s of the
University of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb nor ...
located in the city of
Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...
,
Victoria
Victoria most commonly refers to:
* Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia
* Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada
* Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory
* Victoria, Seychelle ...
, Australia. It is home to around 350 undergraduates, 90 graduates and 35 professorial and academic residents.
History
Beginnings
The
University of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb nor ...
was established by an act of the
Parliament of Victoria
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in 1853. were set aside for residential colleges, of which each were allotted to the
Anglican
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,
Presbyterian
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,
Methodist
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and
Roman Catholic
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denominations. The Presbyterian allotment became Ormond College.
At the end of August 1877, Alexander Morrison, headmaster of
Scotch College and convenor of the
Presbyterian Church
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assembly's committee to "watch over the land", received a letter from the director of the Victorian Education Department, proposing that if the church did not mean to take the land for a college, that it be sold and the proceeds divided, half to the church and half to the state for university purposes. This spurred Morrison into action. A subscription list was opened, with a target of £10,000; on this list
Francis Ormond
Francis Ormond (23 November 1827 – 5 May 1889) was a Scottish-born Australian pastoralist, member of the Parliament of Victoria and philanthropist in the areas of education and religion.
Ormond is notable for founding the Working Men's Col ...
's name appears against a donation of £3,000.
The General Assembly meeting in November 1877 resolved that the church should immediately proceed with the building of a college and that £10,000 be raised for the purpose, that the buildings be used as a college of residence for university students and as a theological school. Immediate steps were taken to raise the money. In the course of three years, some £38,000 were raised, of which Francis Ormond contributed £22,571. The foundation stone of the college (now lost) was laid by the Governor of Victoria,
George Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby
George Augustus Constantine Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby (23 July 1819 – 3 April 1890), styled Viscount Normanby between 1831 and 1838 and Earl of Mulgrave between 1838 and 1863, was a British Liberal politician and colonial governor of Nov ...
, on 15 November 1879. The formal opening of the college took place on 18 March 1881. At this ceremony it was announced that Francis Ormond had offered to bear the whole cost of the remainder of the planned buildings.
On opening there were 20 students, soon growing to 24. Ormond College was unique amongst University of Melbourne colleges in welcoming students of all faiths and none, a philosophy built upon the Scottish Enlightenment tradition. Students of other Christian denominations, Jewish students and others were welcomed and this has become a cornerstone of the college's inclusive ethos.
![Front of Allen House at Ormond College](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Front_of_Allen_House_at_Ormond_College.JPG)
In honour of the silver jubilee of
Queen Victoria
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in 1887, Francis Ormond funded the building of the Victoria Wing which came into use in 1889. In 1893 the dining hall, kitchens, staff quarters and the original Master's residence (Allen House) were opened. The neo-Gothic dining hall is reminiscent of an Oxbridge building and is often compared to Hogwarts from J. K. Rowling's ''
Harry Potter
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''; indeed, a Hogwarts-themed episode of ''MasterChef'' was filmed there in 2013.
Rapid growth
The rapid growth of the college soon outstripped the available accommodation and Francis Ormond provided funds for the southwest wing, together with a temporary building (which was, however, stone-walled and tin-roofed) where the cloisters now are, which served as kitchens and a dining hall. The next addition to the buildings of the college was the Wyselaskie building, which was completed in March 1887.
John Dickson Wyselaskie was a
Western District squatter
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, who also gave generously to the
Presbyterian Ladies' College. The building contained a lecture hall and two residences for theological professors and was adapted and divided in 1968 so as to provide for four residences. On 6 July 1887, the portrait of Francis Ormond, which now hangs above the college's dining hall door, was unveiled by Sir James McBain.
![Front of Allen House at Ormond College](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Front_of_Allen_House_at_Ormond_College.JPG)
In honour of the silver jubilee of
Queen Victoria
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in 1887, Francis Ormond funded the building of the Victoria Wing which came into use in 1889. In 1893 the dining hall, kitchens, staff quarters and the original lodge (Allen House) were opened. On either side of the end window of the hall are effigies representing Francis and Mary Ormond.
Admission of women
From the beginning Ormond accepted women as non-residents, able to attend tutorials and participate in college life whilst living offsite with funding from the college. Female students were amongst its most notable early scholars. Later, from 1968 to 1972, female students were able to live in college in return for waitressing duties and attend tutorials; they were admitted as members of the Ormond College Students' Club in 1969. In 1973, Ormond accepted women students as residents for the first time. Women quickly rose to leadership roles in both the staff and student bodies including being elected chair of the students' club and appointed to the role of vice-master (deputy head of college). The college has a number of distinguished women alumni who have risen to prominence in their fields.
Post WWII expansion
The period after
World War II
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saw great demands for accommodation; for the first time the college passed 150 students. Following an appeal for funds in 1949, a series of improvements were made to Main Building. The kitchens were extensively modernised and general maintenance was brought up to date after the lag resulting from the Depression of the 1930s and the shortages of men and material during and after the War. In 1955, a squash court was built to commemorate the Ormond men who died in the Second World War. A new Master's residence was designed by the prominent architects Grounds, Romberg and Boyd and was completed in 1958. At the same time, a permanent residence was provided for the Vice-Master by the conversion of a rooms of the old lodge (Allen House) and the addition of a semi-circular cream brick building.
Innovation: the 1960s
During the 1960s the college continued to work with
Grounds,
Romberg and
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to create ground-breaking buildings. In the vacation of 1960–61 a new domestic wing was built to accommodate the extra staff and facilities required for the larger college planned for 1962. The three octagon-shaped buildings that constitute Picken Court were built during 1961 and were ready for occupation in 1962, providing accommodation for around 100 students and eight tutors. The chancellor of the university, Sir
Arthur Dean, opened the building in March 1962.
1965 saw the erection of the new premises of the MacFarland Library, which were combined with a new theological hall common room. The former library became the chapel, the official opening of which took place on 19 March 1967. For the first time the college had its own place of worship, as befits a church foundation. In 1982 the library was reorganised, separating the Ormond College and Joint Theological College collections.
In 1968, a striking and bold building was opened in the south-east corner of the college grounds in the style later named
brutalism
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. The chancellor of the university, Sir
Robert Menzies
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, officially opened the southeast building and named it McCaughey Court after the master,
Davis McCaughey
John Davis McCaughey (12 July 1914 – 25 March 2005) was an Irish-born Australian academic theologian, Christian minister, university administrator and the 23rd Governor of Victoria from 1986 to 1992.
Early life and academic career
McCaughey ...
. This building, which caused much comment, won awards for the architects Romberg and Boyd.
Rejuvenation and change
In 1981, the college's centenary was recognised with much pomp and ceremony in the presence of the former master and then
Governor of Victoria
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,
Davis McCaughey
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Early life and academic career
McCaughey ...
, whose 20 years of responsibility developed the college in so many ways to its present strength and size. Subsequent building works in the 1980s and 1990s focussed on modernisation and renovation. In the 1980s, bathrooms, the tower, junior common room, the quad and the plaza were all renovated. The current tennis courts were built in 1982 and four Parkville houses were acquired in 1985, housing students for the next twenty years. The 1990s saw the installation of both individual student telephones and network connections. The gym was opened in 1999.
Ormond College was embroiled in controversy in 1991 over allegations that the master of the college had sexually assaulted two female students at a Valedictory party and that the college council had dismissed these complaints out of hand. The master was convicted of one charge of assault, however the conviction was later overturned on appeal, though he resigned his position. The events of this controversy were written into a 1995 book by
Helen Garner
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, ''
The First Stone
''The First Stone: Some questions about sex and power'' is a controversial non-fiction book by Helen Garner about a 1992 sexual harassment scandal at Ormond College, one of the residential colleges of the University of Melbourne, which the aut ...
'', which itself was embroiled in controversy over bias toward the master, its criticism of
third wave feminism
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and fictionalisation of various events and circumstances. Since this case, Ormond College has reformed its procedures in regards to sexual harassment and assault.
Innovation and development
In 2009, Rufus Black was appointed master of Ormond College. An ethicist and Rhodes scholar, Black ushered in a new era of change and development.
In 2009, Ormond launched an Indigenous program which supported Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students to live at Ormond and study at the University of Melbourne.
In 2016, the college opened the Wade Institute. Established with a gift from entrepreneur Peter Wade, the institute delivers programs for investors, entrepreneurs and schools, including a new University of Melbourne Masters of Entrepreneurship. The degree is a collaboration between Ormond and the university's Faculty of Business and Economics and its School of Engineering.
The college also developed major new facilities during this period. In 2010 the junior common room was redeveloped into cafe style space and lounge. In May 2011 the college opened a $4m student academic centre. The building contains a wide range of formal and informal learning spaces along with the college library and information technology facilities. These facilities are complemented by refurbished tutorial rooms in McCaughey Court and library for the college historical collections in Main Building.
Since 2010 the college has expanded its undergraduate facilities by creating a series of loft rooms in its main building and McCaughey Court. The college has also developed a cohort of graduate students in its two dedicated graduate buildings opened in 2014 and 2015. Perhaps its most significant architectural addition for some decades has been the Wade Institute. The building is Australia's first
passivhaus
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building, constructed to rigorous standards of sustainability and energy efficiency.
In 2018, Lara McKay became master of Ormond, navigating the college through a period of change in the Melbourne student accommodation landscape, enhancing the wellbeing services available to students and leading the college successfully through the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gallery
Image:Ormond_College_October_23_2015.jpg, Ormond College from The Law Building
Image:Ormond courtyard.jpg, View into main courtyard
Image:Ormond backfence.jpg, Creeper-covered exterior of Ormond College
Image:Ormond cricket.jpg, View from across university cricket oval
Choir
The Choir of Ormond College was founded in 1982. It was an eight-part choir with twenty four choral scholars, who were both residents and non-residents of the college. From 1982 to 2010 the choir performed and recorded regularly and gave 12 international concert tours of New Zealand, Japan, Singapore and Europe. The choir last toured in 2009, which was to Germany, Austria and Switzerland. At the end of 2010, the choir was formally disbanded.
In 2011 the college employed Raymond Yong as the director of music and he created a new unauditioned singing group, the Ormond Singers, which remains as an unauditioned group lead by the head of music of the Ormond Students' Club.
Directors
*Douglas Lawrence(1982–2006)
*John O'Donnell (2007–2010)
*Raymond Yong (2011, of the Ormond Singers)
List of masters
*1881–1914
John Henry MacFarland[Former Heads of Affiliated Colleges]
University of Melbourne Calendar
*1915–1943 David Kennedy Picken
*(J.C. McPhee, acting master, August 1943 – September 1944
[)
*(The Revd J. E. Owen, acting master, September 1944 – December 1945][)
*1946–1953 Stanley L. Prescott][
*1954–1958 Brinley Newton-John][
*(The Revd John S. Alexander, acting master, 1959][)
*1959–1979 John Davis McCaughey][
*1980–1989 David Henry Parker][
*1990–1993 Alan Gregory][
*(Kenneth Robin Jackson, acting master, September 1992 – December 1993][)
*1994–2008 Hugh Norman Collins][
*2009–2017 Rufus E. R. Black
*2018–present Lara McKay
]
Notable alumni
Politics and government
* Neil Brown – politician and Commonwealth Attorney-General
* John Button – politician and federal government minister
* Sir Littleton Groom
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- Federal Minister and Speaker in Federal Parliament
* Henry Cohen Henry Cohen may refer to:
* Henry Cohen (numismatist) (1806–1880), French numismatist, bibliographer and composer
*Henry Cohen (rabbi) (1863–1952), Jewish Texan rabbi in Galveston, Texas, 1888–1952
*Henry Cohen (politician) (1872–1942), Aus ...
– State parliamentarian
* Sir Zelman Cowen
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– 19th Governor General of Australia
* Mark Dreyfus
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– Federal Member for Isaacs
* Gareth Evans – Senator, academic and Commonwealth Minister of Foreign Affairs
* Greg Hunt
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– Federal Member for Flinders
* Rod Kemp
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Kemp was born in Melbourne, Victoria, and was educated at Melbo ...
– politician and federal government minister.
* David Kemp – politician and federal government minister.
* John Langmore
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He studied for a Bachelor of Commerce degree at the University of Melbourne, a ...
– Federal politician, academic and diplomat
* Sir John Mackey – state politician
* Sir Robert Menzies
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– Prime Minister of Australia (Menzies was a non-resident postgraduate law tutor)
* Ian MacFarlan
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– Premier of Victoria
* Richard Marles
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– Deputy prime minister of Australia
* Sir Frank Officer – diplomat
* Madeleine Ogilvie
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– Tasmanian state politician
* Sir George Oswald Reid – MP and Cabinet Minister
* Roger Shipton
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Early life
...
– Federal parliamentarian
* Tim Smith Tim, Timothy or Timmy Smith may refer to:
Musicians
* T. V. Smith (born 1956), British singer and songwriter
*Tim Smith (Cardiacs) (1961–2020), English singer-songwriter and frontman of Cardiacs
*Timmy Trumpet (born 1982), Australian DJ and prod ...
– Victorian state politician
* Haddon Storey- politician and Attorney-General of Victoria
* Alan Tudge
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– Minister for Education
* Vernon Wilcox
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– Victorian State Transport Minister and Attorney-General
Law
* Kate Jenkins
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– Federal Sex Discrimination Minister
* Sir Keith Aickin – Justice of the High Court of Australia
* Hilary Charlesworth
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– Melbourne Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne, Director of the Centre for International Governance and Justice at the Australian National University.
* Alex Chernov
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– Supreme Court Justice and Governor of Victoria
* Sir Daryl Dawson – Justice of the High Court of Australia
* Rowan Downing
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In 1971 Downing was awarded a Commonwealth Government Scholarship to ...
– President of United Nations Dispute Tribunal, UN-appointed judge, Khmer Rouge War Crimes Tribunal, Cambodia & Justice, Court of Appeal, Vanuatu
* Sir Wilfred Fullagar – Justice of the High Court of Australia
* Kenneth Hayne
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Hayne was born in Gympie, Queensland and attended Scotch College, Melbou ...
– Justice of the High Court of Australia
* Sir John Latham
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– Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia
* Sir George Lush – Supreme Court Justice
* Sir William Gilbert Stewart McArthur – Justice, Supreme Court of Victoria and Captain, Essendon Football Club
* Alastair Nicholson
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– Chief Justice, Family Court of Australia
* Sir John Norris – Supreme Court Justice
* Ross Robson- Justice, Supreme Court of Victoria
* Sir Henry Winneke – Supreme Court Justice and Governor of Victoria
Business
* David Crawford – Australian company director
* Sir Peter Derham – business executive, philanthropist
*Sir Archibald Glenn
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– industrialist and Founding Chancellor of La Trobe University
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* Charles Goode – director of ANZ Bank, Woodside Petroleum, Singapore Airlines
*Sir Ian McLennan
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– Chairman of BHP
* Ziggy Switkowski
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– CEO of Telstra, nuclear physicist, Chancellor of RMIT University
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Academia
* Anthony Edward Perry - Fluid dynamicist
* Robert Bartnik
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– mathematician
*Rufus Black
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Early life and education
Black was educated at Wesley College and the University of Melbourne, where he resided at Ormond College and graduated wit ...
– Vice Chancellor, University of Tasmania
* Sir Frank MacFarlane Burnet
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– immunologist, Nobel Prize winner
* Hilary Charlesworth
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– feminist legal academic and judge, International Court of Justice
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* Thomas Cherry – pioneering bacteriologist
* Peter Darvall – Vice Chancellor of Monash University
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* Sir David Derham
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– jurist and Vice Chancellor of Melbourne University
* Charles Angas Hurst
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– mathematical physicist
* Stuart Macintyre
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– historian, academic and public intellectual
* Neil McQueen – educational innovator, scientist, psychologist and medical doctor
*Sir Walter Murdoch
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- Chancellor of the University of Western Australia
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, Murdoch University
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was named in his honour
*Sir George Whitecross Paton
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Paton was born on 16 August 1902 in Geelong, Victoria. His pa ...
- Vice-Chancellor of Melbourne University
* E. J. G. Pitman
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- mathematician
* Ian Renard – Chancellor, University of Melbourne
*Sir Lindsay Ride – Vice Chancellor, University of Hong Kong
* Percy Seymour – classicist
* Peter Singer
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– philosopher
* Hugh Stretton
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- historian
* Sir Kenneth Wheare- Vice-Chancellor, Oxford University
Military
* Sir Edward "Weary" Dunlop – Australian World War II hero, surgeon, Wallabies player
* Major General Rupert Downes
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- soldier, general, surgeon and historian
* Major General "Pompey" Elliott – Senior Officer in Australian Army during WWI, senator, solicitor, VFL footballer, athlete
* Brigadier General William Grant – engineer, Temporary Brigadier General in First AIF, commanded Australian Light Horse Charge at Beersheba
* General Peter Gration
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– Chief of the Australian Defence Force
* Sir James McCay – Australian general and politician, champion of women's suffrage and federation
* Stanley Simpson Reid – Australian Rules footballer, Presbyterian minister, Boer War soldier
Medicine
* R. Esme Anderson, early woman ophthalmologist
* Sir Frank MacFarlane Burnet
Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, (3 September 1899 – 31 August 1985), usually known as Macfarlane or Mac Burnet, was an Australian virology, virologist known for his contributions to immunology. He won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nob ...
– immunologist, Nobel Prize winner
* Sir Thomas Dunhill
Thomas Frederick Dunhill (1 February 187713 March 1946) was a prolific English composer in many genres, though he is best known today for his light music and educational piano works. His compositions include much chamber music, a song cycle, '' ...
– surgeon
* Hilda Esson – doctor
* The Revd John Flynn ("Flynn of the Inland") - founded the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia
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, featured on Australian $20 note
* Sir John Frew – physician, President of the Royal Australian College of Physicians
* Mary Glowrey
Mary Glowrey (1887–1957) was an Australian born and educated doctor who spent 37 years in India, where she set up healthcare facilities, services and systems. She is believed to be the first Catholic religious sister-in-vows to practise as a ...
– medical missionary, founder of the Catholic Health Association of India
* Effie Stillwell
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Women
* Effie Bancroft (1840–1921), English actress and theatre manager
* Effie Boggess (1927-2021 ...
– scholar, missionary doctor in India and winner of the Kaiser-i-Hinde Medal for Public Service.
* Sir Benjamin Rank- plastic surgeon
* Frank I.R. (Skip) Martin AC – endocrinologist, one of the founders of the Australian Diabetes Society, made Member of the Order of Australia
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in 1995 for his service to medicine, particularly in the field of endocrinology and diabetes
Sport
* Robin Bishop – AFL Commissioner
* Donald Duffy – Chairman, Melbourne Football Club
* Chris Fogarty
Andrew Christopher Fogarty (28 January 1884 – 29 November 1915) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon and University in the Victorian Football League
The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules ...
– Australian Rules footballer, Essendon Football Club
* Charles Littlejohn – Olympic silver medallist, rowing; Rhodes Scholar; Military Cross, WWI
* Stanley Simpson Reid – Australian Rules footballer, Fitzroy Football Club
* Robyn Selby Smith
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Club and state rowi ...
– Three-time world champion and Olympic rower
* Paul Sheahan
Andrew Paul Sheahan (born 30 September 1946) is a former Australian international cricketer who played 31 Test matches and three One Day Internationals as an opening and middle order batsman between 1967 and 1973.
He made his first-class deb ...
AM – Australian Test cricketer
* Phoebe Stanley – Olympic rower
* James Sutherland – CEO, Cricket Australia and former Sheffield Shield cricketer for Victoria.
Media and arts
* John Duigan
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Biogra ...
– film director
* Sabrina Herft
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History
Miss Sri Lanka identified in 1953 with Manel Illangakoon of Colombo and became the oldest n ...
– Miss Universe Sri Lanka 2012
* David Hobson – principal tenor, Australian Opera
* Peter Nicholson – political cartoonist
* Polixeni Papapetrou – visual artist
* Hannie Rayson
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Biography
Rayson was born in Melbourne, Victoria and graduated from the University of Melbourne ...
– playwright
* Giselle Rosselli
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– musician
* Mark Seymour
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– frontman of Hunters and Collectors
* Phil Harvey (manager)
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– Manager of Coldplay
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Rhodes scholars
*John Seitz (1906)
* Charles Littlejohn (1909)
*Neil MacNeil (1914)
*Donald Sandral (1916)
*Patrick Hamilton (1917)
*William Hancock (1920)
* Lindsay Ride (1922)
* George Paton (1926)
* Kenneth Wheare (1929)
*Richard Latham (1931)
*Ross Campbell (1933)
*Alan Treloar (1940)
*Zelman Cowen
Sir Zelman Cowen, (7 October 1919 – 8 December 2011) was an Australian legal scholar and university administrator who served as the 19th Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1977 to 1982.
Cowen was born in Melbourne, and attended ...
(1941)
*Hugh Stretton
Emeritus, Professor emeritus Hugh Stretton (15 July 1924 – 18 July 2015) was an Australian historian who wrote books on politics, urban planning and economics, and a Rhodes Scholar. He was a key figure in the development and implementation of ...
(1946)
*Alan Serle (1947)
*Robert Shaw (1948)
*Graeme Davison (1964)
*Alistair Christie (1967)
*Kenneth Hayne
Kenneth Madison Hayne (born 5 June 1945) is a former Justice of the High Court of Australia, the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy.
Early life and education
Hayne was born in Gympie, Queensland and attended Scotch College, Melbou ...
(1969)
*Colin Norman (1970)
*Graham Hutchinson (1971)
*Martin Wardrop (1974)
*Andrew Michelmore (1976)
*Richard Caro (1978)
*Michael Penington (1980)
*Ralph King (1982)
*Sharon Korman (1983)
*Timothy Orton (1986)
*Mark Moshinsky (1988)
*Mark Chiba (1989)
*Rufus Black
Rufus Edward Ries Black (born 20 May 1969) is the vice-chancellor of the University of Tasmania.
Early life and education
Black was educated at Wesley College and the University of Melbourne, where he resided at Ormond College and graduated wit ...
(1991)
*Catherine Anderson (1992)
*Joanna Masel (1997)
*Kate Brennan (2007)
*John Feddersen (2008)
*Kate Robson (2008)
*Hamish McKenzie (2015)
*Bede Jones (2017)
*Rebecca Duke (2017)
*Brigid O’Farrell-White (2018)
*Mattea Mrkusic (2019)
Fulbright scholars
* Zelman Cowen
Sir Zelman Cowen, (7 October 1919 – 8 December 2011) was an Australian legal scholar and university administrator who served as the 19th Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1977 to 1982.
Cowen was born in Melbourne, and attended ...
(1936)
* Daryl Dawson
Sir Daryl Michael Dawson, (born 12 December 1933) is a former Australian judge who served as a Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1982 to 1997. Before being appointed to the High Court, he served for periods as a legal officer in the R ...
(1951)
* Charles Goode (1959)
* Rodney Crewther (1964)
* Bruce McKellar (1973)
* Robert Bartnik
Robert Bartnik (1956-2022) was an Australian mathematician based at Monash University. He is known for his contributions to the rigorous mathematical study of general relativity. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Melbourne Univ ...
(1974)
* Hilary Charlesworth
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(1974)
* Ted Gott (1981)
* Greg Hunt
Gregory Andrew Hunt (born 18 November 1965) is a former Australian politician who was the Minister for Health between January 2017 and May 2022. He was a Liberal Party member of the House of Representatives between November 2001 and 2022, repre ...
(1985)
* Fraser Cameron (1995)
* Paul R. Burgess (2009)
References
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External links
Ormond College website
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Heritage-listed buildings in Melbourne
Presbyterian Church of Australia
Uniting Church in Australia
Residential colleges of the University of Melbourne