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List Of Old Geelong Grammarians
This is a list of notable Old Geelong Grammarians, they being notable Alumnus, former students - known as "Old Geelong Grammarians" of the Anglican Church of Australia, Anglican Church school, Geelong Grammar School and old girls of The Hermitage (Australia), The Hermitage and Clyde School in Geelong, Victoria, Geelong, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. In 2001, ''The Sun-Herald'' ranked Geelong Grammar School fourth in Australia's top ten schools for boys, based on the number of its male alumni mentioned in the ''Who's Who in Australia'' (a listing of notable Australians). Academia Business Clergy * Bishop Thomas Armstrong (bishop), Thomas Armstrong, Anglican Diocese of Wangaratta, Bishop of Wangaratta (1902–1927) * Bishop Reginald Stephen, Anglican Diocese of Tasmania, Bishop of Tasmania (1914–1919) and Anglican Diocese of Newcastle (Australia), Bishop of Newcastle (1919–1928) * Bishop Jack Stretch, Anglican Diocese of Newcastle (Australia), Bishop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geelong Grammar School (crest)
Geelong Grammar School is a private school, private Anglican co-educational Boarding school, boarding and day school. The school's main campus is located in Corio, Victoria, Corio on the northern outskirts of Geelong, Victoria, Australia, overlooking Corio Bay and Limeburners Bay. Established in 1855 under the auspices of the Church of England, Geelong Grammar School has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 1,500 students from Pre-school to Year 12, including 800 boarders from Years 5 to 12. In 2009, ''The Australian'' declared Geelong Grammar to be the "most expensive school in the nation", charging a fee of almost $29,000 for a Year 12 student. This remains true in 2024, with annual fees coming in at just under $50,000 for day students and $85,000 for boarding students. Among the school's List of Old Geelong Grammarians, alumni is Charles III, King Charles III. In 2017, a Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Sergeant Hall
Thomas Sergeant Hall (23 December 1858 – 21 December 1915) was an Australian geologist and biologist, recipient of The Murchison Fund in 1901. Early life Hall was born in Geelong, the son of Thomas March Hall, a business man originally from Lincolnshire, England and Elizabeth, ''née'' Walshe, from Dublin. Hall was educated at the Geelong Grammar School where he came under the influence of James L. Cuthbertson. He was a junior master at Wesley College in 1879–80, then Hawthorn College and then went to the University of Melbourne, where he took his B.A. degree in 1886 with honours in natural science. This included work in palaeontology under Sir Frederick McCoy. Hall taught for a year at Girton College, Sandhurst (now Bendigo) in 1887, but returned to the university and did a three years' course in biology under Professor Sir Baldwin Spencer. Career Hall took a leading part in the forming of the university science club, and through it met Dr G. B. Pritchard with whom he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roderick Carnegie
Sir Roderick Howard Carnegie AC (27 November 1932 – 14 July 2024) was an Australian businessman, primarily working in the coal industry. Life and career Carnegie was born in Melbourne on 27 November 1932, the eldest child and only son of Douglas and Margaret Carnegie (née Allen). He was educated at Geelong Grammar, Trinity College at the University of Melbourne (B.Sc. 1954), Oxford (M.A. and Dip. Ag. Ec. 1957) and Harvard (M.B.A. 1959). In the late 1950s, he was president of the Oxford University Boat Club. In 1958, he became a consultant with McKinsey & Company Inc. in the United States. In 1963, he founded the Australian practice of McKinsey in Melbourne and, in 1967, he returned to New York to become a Director of the company. In 1972, he joined CRA Limited (now Rio Tinto) as finance director, and served as managing director, and as chairman, from 1974 to 1986. After 1986, he was a director of several companies, including the Australian Advisory Board of General Motor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Alexander (fashion Designer)
Peter Alexander (born 1965) is an Australian fashion designer known for the Peter Alexander brand of pyjamas, loungewear and giftware. Life and career Peter Alexander was born in 1965 in South Africa and then moved to Melbourne, Australia shortly afterwards. He has two older sisters. Alexander attended boarding school at Geelong Grammar School for two years before returning home to Kew where he changed schools four times. He worked from his mother's dining room table during the early days of the Peter Alexander brand. He initially sold directly to department stores. When a store cancelled an order for 2,000 pairs of pyjamas in 1990, he took out a mail order advertisement in '' Cleo'' magazine. Alexander received 6,000 orders from that one advertisement alone. In 2000, Peter Alexander joined Australian retailer Just Group, effectively selling his business although remaining creative director within the structure of the Just Group. After the sale, the brand Peter's PJs increa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deakin University
Deakin University is a public university in Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1974 with antecedent history since 1887, the university was named after Alfred Deakin, the second Prime Minister of Australia and a founding father of Australian Federation. Its main campuses are in Melbourne's Burwood suburb, Geelong Waurn Ponds, Geelong Waterfront, and Warrnambool. Deakin also has a learning centre in Werribee. Deakin University is ranked among the top 1% of universities in the world, is the 3rd-highest-ranked university in the world for Sport Science, is one of the top 29 universities in the world for Nursing, is one of the top 32 universities in the world for Education, and is among fewer than 5% of Business Schools worldwide with Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business accreditation. Deakin University consistently ranks highly in undergraduate student satisfaction; in the 2019 Student Experience Survey, Deakin had the fourth-highest student satisfaction rating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Searby
Richard Henry Searby (23 July 1931 – 8 August 2018) was an Australian lawyer, company director and academic. His father was Dr. Henry Searby, a founding member of the Royal Melbourne Hospital at Parkville and his mother, Mary Searby, was a philanthropist involved in community programs for the benefit of underprivileged people. He was born on 23 July 1931. His brother, Michael, held a doctorate in philosophy from Cambridge University and had a career as a director of companies. He was educated first at home by his grandfather (a former headmaster of first, Essendon High School and subsequently Melbourne High School), and then at the Geelong Grammar School, where he was a school prefect. He attended Melbourne University as a resident of Ormond College for one year before leaving to study classics (Ancient Greek and Roman History and Philosophy and Ancient Greek and Latin) at Oxford University. He was awarded a BA Lit Hum (Hons) and an MA from Oxford University in 1954 (as well a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Scriven
Michael John Scriven (; 28 March 1928 – 28 August 2023) was a British-born Australian polymath and academic philosopher, best known for his contributions to the theory and practice of evaluation. Biography Scriven was born in the UK and grew up in Melbourne, Australia. He held BSc (1948) and MS (1950) degrees in mathematics from the University of Melbourne, where he was in residence at Trinity College from 1946, winning an entrance scholarship. He then completed a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Oxford (1956). Scriven was a president of the American Educational Research Association and the American Evaluation Association. He was also an editor and co-founder of the ''Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation/''. He was latterly a distinguished professor at Claremont Graduate University in California. He spent most of his career in the United States. He became a full Professor at the age of 32. His major appointments were: *Swarthmore College (Assistant Professor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herman Rupp
Herman Montague Rucker Rupp (27 December 1872 – 2 September 1956) was an Australian clergyman and botanist who specialised in orchids. He was known throughout his life as Montague Rupp (pronounced "Rupe") and in later life as the "Orchid Man". Rupp was born in Port Fairy, Victoria to Charles Ludwig Hermann Rupp, a Prussian-born Anglican clergyman and Marie Ann Catherine Rupp, a Tasmanian who died two weeks after the birth of Montague. Montague Rupp was educated at Geelong Grammar School as a boarder, where an uncle John Bracebridge Wilson, the naturalist, was headmaster. Charles's parents died on the voyage to Australia or shortly before, and the boy was raised by William Frederic Augustus Rucker (1807–1882), another Prussian émigré. Rupp was made deacon on 28 May 1899 and ordained priest on 2 June 1901. He began recording his botanical observations and specimens in 1892; from 1899 made 'a census of the native plants' of his parishes. In 1924 he decided to 'concentrate on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Ringwood
Alfred Edward "Ted" Ringwood FRS FAA (19 April 1930 – 12 November 1993) was an Australian experimental geophysicist and geochemist, and the 1988 recipient of the Wollaston Medal. The mineral ringwoodite is named after him. Early life and study Ringwood was born in Kew, only child of Alfred Edward Ringwood. He attended Hawthorn West State School where he played cricket and Australian Rules football. In 1943 he was successful in gaining a scholarship to Geelong Grammar School where he boarded. On matriculation, he enrolled in Geology a science degree at the University of Melbourne where he held a Commonwealth Government Scholarship, and was awarded a resident scholarship at Trinity College. He represented the college and the university in football. He obtained First Class Honours degree in Geology and began a MSc degree in field-mapping and petrology of the Devonian Snowy River volcanics of northeastern Victoria, graduating with Honours in 1953. Ringwood then undertook a PhD, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Pizzey
Graham Martin Pizzey (4 July 1930 – 12 November 2001) was a noted Australian author, photographer and ornithologist. Early life and education Graham Pizzey was born and grew up in grew up in East Ivanhoe on the Yarra River. At age seven he was given a copy of John A. Leach's 1926 ''An Australian Bird Book,'' and while attending Geelong Grammar School as a boarder he used photography to record his observations of the local countryside. After leaving school in 1948 he worked in his family's leather business, while studying part-time and publishing articles and photographs on natural history, the first appearing in 1948 in the ''Wild Life'', whose editor Crosbie Morrison encouraged Pizzey's talent. Freelance In 1957 Pizzey married Sue Taylor, who assisted him on field expeditions and typed his manuscripts for his numerous articles on natural history for newspapers, notably in the Melbourne ''Age'' (1954–64). Encouraged by their reception, in 1960 Pizzey resigned from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Montagu, 13th Duke Of Manchester
Alexander Charles David Drogo Montagu, 13th Duke of Manchester (born 11 December 1962), is an Australian-born British hereditary peer, inheriting the dukedom of Manchester from his father in 2002. He is a British and Australian citizen and has lived in the United States since 1986. He has been convicted of fraud, burglary, and other offences and has served several prison sentences in Australia and the United States. Biography The 13th Duke is the son of Angus Montagu, 12th Duke of Manchester, and his first wife, newspaper columnist Mary Eveleen, daughter of Walter Gillespie McClure, of Geelong, Victoria, Australia. In Australia in 1984, Montagu married firstly Marion Stoner, an Australian model who was 11 years older than he. The relationship lasted two months; Stoner left after accusing Montagu of firing a speargun at her. In 1985, Montagu was sentenced to three years in prison after being convicted of 22 charges of fraud. In 1991, he was arrested again in Brisbane after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Griffith
Jeremy Griffith (born 1945) is an Australian biologist and author. He first came to public attention for his attempts to find the Tasmanian tiger. He later became noted for his writings on the human condition and theories about human progress, which seek to give a biological, rational explanation of human behaviour. He founded the World Transformation Movement in 1983. Early life and career Griffith was raised on a sheep property in central New South Wales. He was educated at Tudor House School, in New South Wales, and the Geelong Grammar School in Victoria and completed the NSW schools Leaving Certificate with first class honours in biology. He subsequently began a science degree at the University of New England, in northern New South Wales. Finally, Griffith completed his Bachelor of Science in zoology at the University of Sydney in 1971. Search for the Tasmanian Tiger He first became known for his search for surviving Tasmanian tigers, or thylacines, the last known sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
