| 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)) | [[wp>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 M-P was reported as having initially attended 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)) Hervey later attended the High School, Tasmania, 'where he gained one or two important scholarships'.((//The Queenslander// 8 January 1887 p.55.)) \\ |
| Perhaps because Mr Shaw's school closed, Matilda's sons all attended the High School in Hobart in the early 1860s.((Table Talk, 12 June 1902, p.17.)) Patricia Clarke asserts that Matilda and her children avoided the worst of Brisbane's summer heat by spending some summers in Hobart. As a result, Morres, Hervey, Redmond, Hugh and Egerton, 'became boarders at the private, highly regarded, non-sectarian High School in Hobart'.((Patricia Clarke, //Rosa! Rosa!// p.22; //The Telegraph// (Brisbane), 29 March 1901 p.8; Andrew Darbyshire, A Fair Slice of St Lucia. Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior, St Lucia History Group research paper no. 8, p. 43 TLM-P diary 3 April 1862)). In 1901 Rosa recalled that, as a girl of 12 and 16, she visited Hobart, i.e. in 1863 and 1867.((Rosa Praed, letter to Miss Susman, 23 July 1901, MS9456 NLA) The High School's headmaster was the Rev. R. D. Poulett-Harris and it attracted boys from various regions of Australia. The school's eminence lasted until 1878; it closed in 1885.((E. L. French, 'Harris, Richard Deodatus Poulett (1817–1899)', //Australian Dictionary of Biography//, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/harris-richard-deodatus-poulett-3726/text5855, published first in hardcopy 1972, accessed online 14 August 2018.)) It is not to be confused with the later state-run Hobart High School which operated 1913-66, nor with its prestigious rival, the Hutchins School.\\ | Perhaps because Mr Shaw's school closed, Matilda's sons all attended the High School in Hobart in the early 1860s.((Table Talk, 12 June 1902, p.17.)) Patricia Clarke asserts that Matilda and her children avoided the worst of Brisbane's summer heat by spending some summers in Hobart. As a result, Morres, Hervey, Redmond, Hugh and Egerton, 'became boarders at the private, highly regarded, non-sectarian High School in Hobart'.((Patricia Clarke, //Rosa! Rosa!// p.22; //The Telegraph// (Brisbane), 29 March 1901 p.8; Andrew Darbyshire, A Fair Slice of St Lucia. Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior, St Lucia History Group research paper no. 8, p. 43 TLM-P diary 3 April 1862)). In 1901 Rosa recalled that, as a girl of 12 and 16, she visited Hobart, i.e. in 1863 and 1867.((Rosa Praed, letter to Miss Susman, 23 July 1901, MS9456 NLA) The High School's headmaster was the Rev. R. D. Poulett-Harris and it attracted boys from various regions of Australia. The school's eminence lasted until 1878; it closed in 1885.((E. L. French, 'Harris, Richard Deodatus Poulett (1817–1899)', //Australian Dictionary of Biography//, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/harris-richard-deodatus-poulett-3726/text5855, published first in hardcopy 1972, accessed online 14 August 2018.)) It is not to be confused with the later state-run Hobart High School which operated 1913-66, nor with its prestigious rival, the Hutchins School.\\ |