South Melbourne College

South Melbourne College was a co-education boarding school in South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The school was founded by Thomas Palmer in 1883.^[1]

South Melbourne College
Location
South Melbourne , Victoria Australia
Coordinates	37°50′41″S 144°57′21″E
Information
Type	private
Established	1889
Founder	Thomas Palmer
Status	closed
Closed	1917

John Bernard O'Hara became a partner in 1889 and became sole proprietor in 1893–94.^[2] In his hands it became a leading private school in Victoria. During a period of eight years, of 28 first-class honours gained by all the schools of Victoria in physics and chemistry, 14 were obtained by pupils from South Melbourne College. O'Hara was an inspiring teacher, and many of his pupils went on to hold distinguished positions in the universities of Australia.^[3]

From 1905, the school was located at 76 Kerferd Rd, South Melbourne.^[4]

O'Hara closed the school in 1917 due to ill health.^{[citation needed]}

The Fred Walker Company acquired the premises in 1920, housing the food manufacturing business which later produced Vegemite.^[5]

Notable alumni

• Edith Helen Barrett, medical doctor
• Don Cameron, politician
• Isabella Jobson, nurse who served in World War I
• Paul Jones, politician
• Katharine Susannah Prichard, author
• Henry Caselli Richards, geologist
• T. J. Ryan, politician
• Walter Nairn, politician
• Doctor Sister Mary Glowrey JMJ, medical missionary in India
• Doctor Elsie Carne (nee Thomas^[6][7]), medical missionary in India^[8][9] and Fiji^[10][11]

References

1. Clements, M. A. (1988). "Palmer, Thomas (1858 - 1927)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 7 March 2011.
2. Pawsey, Margaret M. (1988). "O'Hara, John Bernard (1862 - 1927)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 7 March 2011.
3. Serle, Percival (1949). "O'Hara, John Bernard". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. Retrieved 14 March 2011.
4. "History & Heritage". City of Port Phillip. Retrieved 7 March 2011.
5. Farrer, K. T. H. (1990). "Walker, Fred (1884–1935)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 14 January 2021. This article was first published in hardcopy in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 12, (MUP), 1990
6. "A Missionary Wedding," Spectator and Methodist Chronicle (6 August 1915): 1132.
7. "Spectator and Methodist Chronicle (Melbourne, Vic. : 1914 - 1929)".
8. "Women's F.M. Auxiliary," The Methodist (20 August 1927): 3.
9. "The Methodist (Sydney, NSW : 1892 - 1954)".
10. "Victorian news," The Methodist (10 April 1948): 5.
11. "The Methodist (Sydney, NSW : 1892 - 1954)".