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and Sgt. Egan, who drilled the boys twice a week. At the end-of-year prizegiving, the visiting examiner B. T. Williams pronounced the school highly successful in producing boys with high average standard of education rather than a few brilliant examples from talented boys. In 1892 a new building was constructed on Barton Terrace, four doors east of the boarding-house, to a design by architect
263:. In 1895 he moved to Adelaide, and Queen's College, whose proprietor, Lindon, was ill, and took over management of the school. Hood was a noted Classical scholar and a keen golfer. He never married, but had a brother, Dr. Charles Jacomb-Hood, and three sisters in England. He too was buried at the North Road cemetery. No definite link has yet been found to the English artist 81: 95: 200:(c. 1843–1904), which included four classrooms 26 by 20 feet (7.9 m × 6.1 m), an assembly room "Big School Room" 40 by 20 feet (12.2 m × 6.1 m) and a chemistry laboratory. Ceilings were 16 feet (4.9 m) high. The grounds included tennis courts and a parade area. The school was close to the 338:
The school roll dropped in the mid-1930s, then returned to 100 in 1938 and continued to grow, reaching 133 in 1941 and 160 in 1943, and there were now three Houses: Hood, Lindon and Field. Additional property was purchased in 1942 to cope with the increase then in July 1949 Haslam announced that the
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The new school was a success from the start. The first school year opened with 34 students and ended with 72, and managed to provide quality education despite the cramped conditions. Teachers in that first year include: L. B. Cross, Bronard, Greenwood, Wallace Packer, Hugo Leschen, Norman MacGeorge
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Hood purchased the business from Lindon's widow and ran the school successfully for 30 years. On 27 August 1926 Edward Stokes, M.A. took over the school, which continued to prosper and, "on the advice of a number of old boys and certain educationists", it was in 1928 renamed Queen's College.
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colleges, and studied engineering at Adelaide University. He joined the school in 1931 as assistant master, then in 1933 succeeded T. A. Le Messurier as Science and Mathematics master. He married Ivy Clarice Morriss of
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The curriculum in the 1930s included history (ancient, English, Australian, and economic), geography, classics, modern languages, mathematics, science, book-keeping, and shorthand. The boys were organised into two
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school was no longer viable and would close at the end of the year. Haslam immediately accepted the offer of a teaching appointment with his old school Scotch College. Many of the school's pupils transferred to
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Like many students listed here including Muecke, Bragg attended Queen's School for a year or two before enrolling with St Peter's College. Bragg was at Queen's in 1900; SPC 1901–1905.
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was educated at the school. Stokes died on 7 April 1934 and D. O. Haslam, who had been with the school since 1931, leased the college and boarding house from Stokes' trustees.
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Dudley Osborne Haslam (1909–2004) was a son of William Osborne Haslam (1882–1959) and Gertrude Amy Haslam, nÊe Button (1884– ). He was educated at
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He had some health problems and, looking for a healthier climate, emigrated to Queensland. While there he accepted a teaching position with
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In 1891 the school was taken over as a private venture by J. H. Lindon and G. L. Heinemann, and renamed "The Queen's School" in honour of
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Arguably the best-known names among past students were Sir Ross and Keith Smith, but the school had seven or eight
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then, Like Lindon, emigrated to Australia for the healthier climate. In 1891 he was appointed assistant master at
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and grandson of General John Stokes. He was educated at St Peter's College and Adelaide University, then went to
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The qualification "proprietary" excludes church-run schools, of which there is a great number.
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and an oval, where the first of many cricket matches was held between Queen's School and
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Robert Gordon Jacomb-Hood MA (3 June 1865 – 22 July 1897) was born in
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of 1914–1918, around 200 "old boys" enlisted, 34 losing their lives.
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was a privately owned and run school for boys on Barton Terrace,
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James Henry Lindon, MA (8 June 1856 – 6 June 1897) was born on
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Sunter" 177:Trinity College, Melbourne 166:Trinity College, Cambridge 797:"Closing Down of College" 662:The Express and Telegraph 606:South Australian Register 872:The Chronicle (Adelaide) 286:Magdalen College, Oxford 278:Melrose, South Australia 265:George Percy Jacomb-Hood 249:Clare College, Cambridge 213:famous publishing family 168:, where he took his M.A. 143:Christ Church schoolroom 718:The Register (Adelaide) 457:Brian O'Connor (2000). 341:Pulteney Grammar School 332:Mannum, South Australia 313:, who with his brother 334:on 26 January 1935. He 59: 690:The Argus (Melbourne) 634:The Adelaide Observer 243:. 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