Henry Pares Venables (born 1830 in London – d. 31 December 1890 at
Fordingbridge
Fordingbridge is a town and broader civil parish with a population of 6,200 on the River Avon in the New Forest District of Hampshire, England. It is located near the Dorset and Wiltshire borders and on the edge of the New Forest.
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near Bournemouth) was an Australian educationist and school inspector.
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Venables was educated at
Eton College
Eton College ( ) is a Public school (United Kingdom), public school providing boarding school, boarding education for boys aged 13–18, in the small town of Eton, Berkshire, Eton, in Berkshire, in the United Kingdom. It has educated Prime Mini ...
and
Exeter College, Oxford
Exeter College (in full: The Rector and Scholars of Exeter College in the University of Oxford) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, and the fourth-oldest college of the university.
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, (B.A., 1853). Desiring to try his luck on the goldfields, Venables arrived in
Melbourne
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in the ''Gauntlet'' with
Henry Kingsley
Henry Kingsley (2 January 1830 – 24 May 1876) was an English novelist, brother of the better-known Charles Kingsley. He was an early exponent of muscular Christianity in his 1859 novel '' The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn''.
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on 3 December 1853.
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Venables was appointed Secretary to the Education Department of Victoria on the initiation of the free, secular and compulsory system under the Act passed by the late Mr. Justice James Wilberforce Stephen.][
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1830 births
1890 deaths
People from Islington (district)
People educated at Eton College
Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford
Australian educational theorists