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| ==== The boys ==== | ==== The boys ==== |
| === Brisbane === | === Brisbane === |
| In contrast, boys were sent away to school when still young. In 1862, Thomas de M. M-P and Morres attended 'Mr. Shaw's school, Brisbane' known as the Collegiate School - a Church of England school whose headmaster was the Rev. Bowyer E. Shaw. It was designed for 'sons of the gentry' and charged accordingly: £80 per year for boarders. Perhaps for that reason, it did not last long.((//The Brisbane Courier//, 17 February 1912, p.12)) We only know the two boys were there in 1862 because of a report in the newspaper that Tom won the prize for English and Morres the fourth class prize for Latin.((The Courier, 22 December 1862, p.3)) In his 1888 diary, TLM-P visits a chemist in Newcastle only to discover he was not a son of 'my old friend Boyer Shaw'.((9 August))\\ | In contrast, boys were sent away to school when still young. In 1862, Thomas de M. M-P and Morres attended 'Mr. Shaw's school, Brisbane' known as the Collegiate School - a Church of England school whose headmaster was the Rev. Bowyer E. Shaw. It was designed for 'sons of the gentry' and charged accordingly: £80 per year for boarders. Perhaps for that reason, it did not last long.((//The Brisbane Courier//, 17 February 1912, p.12)) We only know the two boys were there in 1862 because of a report in the newspaper that Tom won the prize for English and Morres the fourth class prize for Latin.((The Courier, 22 December 1862, p.3)) In his 1888 diary, TLM-P visits a chemist in Newcastle only to discover he was not a son of 'my old friend Boyer Shaw'.((9 August)) |
| | There was no comparable school in Brisbane until 1868 when [[wp>Brisbane_Grammar_School]] opened. |
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| === Ipswich === | === Ipswich === |
| Hervey M-P was reported as having initially attended [[wp>Ipswich_Grammar_School]] where he was 'a distinguished pupil'.((//The Queenslander// 8 January 1887 p.55.)) While at Ipswich Grammar, in 1872, Hervey was awarded The Tiffin Scholarship worth £20 and his brother Hugh the Thorn Scholarship worth £12.((//Queenslander//, 12 May 1932 cited in Darbyshire)) Ipswich Grammar School opened on 7 October 1863. The founding headmaster until late 1868 was Stuart Hawthorne who had been deeply influenced by Prof. John Woolley's progressive ideas for education at the University of Sydney. | Hervey M-P was reported as having initially attended [[wp>Ipswich_Grammar_School]] where he was 'a distinguished pupil'.((//The Queenslander// 8 January 1887 p.55.)) While at Ipswich Grammar, in 1872, Hervey was awarded The Tiffin Scholarship worth £20 and his brother Hugh the Thorn Scholarship worth £12.((//Queenslander//, 12 May 1932 cited in Darbyshire)) Ipswich Grammar School opened on 7 October 1863. The founding headmaster until late 1868 was Stuart Hawthorne who had been deeply influenced by Prof. John Woolley's progressive ideas for education at the University of Sydney.((Sophie Church, 'Stuart Hawthorne. Queensland's first headmaster', //Circa. The Journal of Professional Historians//, pp.40-49)) |
| Hervey later attended the High School, Tasmania, 'where he gained one or two important scholarships'.((//The Queenslander// 8 January 1887 p.55.)) By then Brisbane Grammar School had opened. | Hervey later attended the High School, Tasmania, 'where he gained one or two important scholarships'.((//The Queenslander// 8 January 1887 p.55.)) |
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| === Hobart === | === Hobart === |