CONVOCATION AND ITS STANDING COMMITTEE - 1924 ONWARDS

The proposal to replace the Senate with a Convocation, comprising members of the first Standing Committee, five were women: four all graduates, had been made in 1913 by a Joint Committee of in Arts, Music and Education; one in Medicine. Enquiry appointed by the Council to look into the University’s The Convocation, which first met on 29 April 1924, elected as constitution and needs. The Joint Committee also recommended its first Warden Morris Mondle Phillips, a lawyer, now master in that Council membership be broadened, which was to have the equity. When he retired, in 1934, he did so to join the Council effect of reducing the proportion of graduate representation, the (of which he had earlier been a member), a precedent followed Senate having elected 20 out of the 23 members. These and other by a number of his successors. T.P. McInerney had also been changes were prescribed by the University Act of 1923. nominated but lost to Phillips in a ballot, 52 to 41. Tribute was Convocation could elect only 10 of the 31 members of Council. It paid to his courtesy and dedication, and on 9 September a special could make its own standing orders, appoint its own Warden, and meeting of some 40 members collected £75 for a testimonial – his was to hold an ordinary meeting at least once a year with special portrait by John Longstaff, which was destroyed in the Wilson meetings as required. To conduct business meanwhile it was to Hall fire of 25 January 1952. Both Convocation and its Standing elect a Standing Committee which would report to it annually Committee continued to meet at the Presbyterian Assembly Hall and at other times when necessary. The Standing Committee in Collins Street until August 1925, returning there in 1942 was to consist of the Warden, ex officio, as chairman, and not after gathering for some years further west at the Law Institute’s less than 40 other persons (the highest number actually elected rooms, then in the Port Authority Building in Market Street. has been 44) who must be members of Convocation but neither When the Standing Committee took up its major activity members of the Council nor solely or principally employed by of approving or amending legislation sent to it by Council, the University. each Professor whose department was concerned with an Though some had argued against maintaining the bi-cameral item attended to introduce it on Council’s behalf, though system for University legislation, the Standing Committee, like in his absence the Registrar might act as his substitute. This the Senate, was empowered to “amend any statute or regulation inconvenient arrangement was modified until the Chairman or submitted by the council for its approval” and return it so amended Vice-Chairman of the Professorial Board alone introduced all for the Council’s further consideration, but could not originate legislation. Most items were readily approved, but amendments legislation. Like Convocation itself, the Standing Committee were frequent, from minor ones in the interests of clarity or was entitled to submit for Council’s consideration any suggestion consistency and often accepted by Council, to those involving relating to University concerns, and be informed of the result. It a matter of principle. Further explanation usually persuaded the must report on any matters referred to it by Council. Committee, but Council too might be persuaded: an objection For the purposes of electing the Standing Committee and to an amendment of the Discipline Statute led to further changes Councillors, graduates were divided into classes, by Faculty or which it was hoped would meet the Standing Committee’s views. groups of Faculties (Arts, Music and Education constituted one The power of decision lay with Council, but by various measures class), the number of representatives to which each class was it tried to ensure that its enactments and amendments were entitled being as near as possible proportional to the number understood and promptly passed. The Committee’s protests on of graduates in each. It was for Council to determine these the few occasions legislation was acted upon before review received numbers and classes. New faculties were joined to an existing a ready explanation and apology.The Standing Committee class: Commerce to Arts, Music and Education; Architecture to occasionally pursued its right to submit suggestions to Council, Engineering. The representational arrangements of 1923 were Arts and Education representatives seizing the opportunity at otherwise undisturbed until 1938, when the numbers of graduates the second meeting in May 1924 to draw Council’s attention according to their faculties were recalculated and arrangements to the “unsatisfactory nature of the arrangements” between the made to ensure that then, and in future, faculty numbers would School of Education and the University (a reference to the dual be reflected in the number of their representatives. Of the 40 control of Education professor and staff by the University and the Victorian Education Department). Meetings were sought and held, and Council was favourably disposed, but as with other matters raised, funds and time were needed for success. Usually the Committee’s initiatives arose from the legislation before them, or from their desire to support the University or its Vice-Chancellor in times of difficulty and challenge from within or without. A number of motions and papers of this kind have been thoughtfully prepared over the years to forward to an appreciative Council. For many years the press was invited to meetings, and could convey a picture of a meeting livelier than that in the minutes. On 10 February 1927 Arts representative (and MSc) Alfred Hart had brought forward the matter of University finances, inadequate then and long after. A committee was formed with the University Association and Hart wrote a comprehensive paper urging that support be marshalled internally and from the professions and Committee of Convocation -July 1960 business when the University approached Government with its (Photographer unknown. University of Archives. UMA/1/2702). submission setting out its needs. No improvement in funding 10 having resulted from successive approaches to governments, matters. Premier of John Cain also commanded a large Hart and others called into question the ability of the Council as attendance in 1982 for his “Labor in Victoria – the first years”. established by the 1923 Act to secure public support, and a sub- During this period the Wardens’ reports became increasingly committee was appointed to report on its composition. The Argus informative. reporter present was attracted by such parts of the discussion as By 1968 the Standing Committee was entitled to appoint a justified the headline “Convocation criticizes Council”, and a representative to attend meetings of each Faculty, and to certain flurry of letters to the editor followed from Sir John Macfarland, Council committees. The representatives’ reports provided a defending his Council, Hart, and Warden M.M. Phillips who fresh view of University life and problems and occasionally an supplied some context to take the sting out of the article while opportunity for contribution. In 1972, however, Convocation and maintaining the propriety of examining the composition of the Standing Committee found themselves again considering their the Council. The sub-committee recommended having more role as the movement which finally led to the establishment of the Convocation representatives and fewer from certain outside consultative University Assembly gained momentum. A working groups, and the matter was dropped. In 1959 the Registrar group was formed in March to follow these developments, and to asked either that the press be no longer invited or the Standing consider proposals to maintain and increase the role of graduates Committee consider its present mode of debate – an intervention in the University, which was overlooked in the debate. The first generally opposed, but turned by the Warden into a unanimous to come into effect was a change of name to Graduates of the affirmation of the right to exclude the press from whole or part University and Graduate Committee respectively, the Warden to of a meeting. The press was indeed asked to leave in November be now President (decided upon by the Standing Committee on 1962 - for the Registrar’s address on impressions of University 17 May 1972, approved by Convocation in April 1973, and in administration in the UK. force by 1975). A Graduate Office, sought by the working group, Wardens from time to time sought to broaden the Committee’s was opened by the University in 1982, though its function was interests, and from 1929 speakers from within the University to support the new Alumni Association and evolved into that were invited to address meetings, business permitting. A pair of of the Development Office. Wider distribution of an improved talks, one on the nature of muscular movements, the other on Gazette was also recommended. At a special meeting on 4 May developments in the teaching of modern political institutions, 1973 Convocation considered the proposition now abroad that it introduced a series of addresses by scholars returned from abroad be replaced by the Assembly, and recommended to Council that and professors speaking on the work of their departments. On 12 before seeking any major amendment of the University Act, it March 1935 the new, first salaried Vice-Chancellor, Raymond should submit the proposed amendment to a postal referendum Priestley spoke on “The administration of the University of of all members of Convocation setting out clearly the issues Cambridge”. Towards the end of the war a further program of involved. In fact, the Graduates and their Committee resumed renewal revived these addresses, and later occasional visits to their accustomed functions, and when their new name was departments were introduced, to better inform members on the judged likely to cause confusion with other rising organisations, matters with which they were dealing (practices which continue they reverted to that of “Convocation” in 1986. The Graduate to this day). The Warden also arranged for members to receive Committee became simply the Committee and the title of the annual Deans’ reports. To sustain interest the Standing warden was not revived. Committee would now meet monthly between March and The late 1980s were busy years for the Committee. Papers of December, and at the University - first in the Men Graduates’ support for the University’s position were written in connection Room in Union House, later in the old, and finally in the new, with new proposals for higher education; notes for the guidance Council Chamber in the Quadrangle. They could also dine, not of new and present members were drawn up, and in 1988 a only at Union House, but from 1954 at the staff club, University working-group reviewed the consolidation of all University House, the establishment of which they had supported. legislation. For the Standing Committee maintaining satisfactory contact Efforts had been made to streamline the process of reviewing with its constituency was a matter of recurring concern and report legislation by the Committee over the years, and in 1988 Council and among the suggestions of 1944 was that every graduand be changed its method of dealing with regulations so as to remove presented with a printed intimation that graduation brought them from the need for Committee of Convocation approval, membership of Convocation and giving a brief account of its though not from the possibility of comment. Discussions led functions. Convocation’s annual ordinary meetings, to which the to compensations: a Committee representative would join the Standing Committee reported chiefly on legislation passed and Legislation Committee, and the Vice-Chancellor’s report to changes of membership, had attracted few graduates, and the Council would be made available to members. 1930 experiment of adding a talk (Professor Wilkinson on dental From 1998, the power to amend all legislation was withdrawn, education) was not repeated until 1945 (Professor G.S. Browne’s and Convocation lost its right to elect members of Council. These topical address on University entrance requirements). From 1947 changes arose from the 1997 Ministerial Committee of Enquiry speakers were regularly incorporated in the program, including into the Governance of Victorian Universities. Nevertheless, the successive Vice-Chancellors J.D.G. Medley and Professor W.P. Committee continues to receive reports of legislation as of other Paton - both good value, though attendances did not rise beyond matters, and to further keep it in touch with University affairs, 40. Nevertheless, in 1952 a special meeting had drawn 90 to the President is invited to Council meetings, and the Committee discuss the need for greater spending on research. In the 1960s to joint briefing sessions. The Committee’s support for the and beyond, however, the annual meeting with buffet dinner University, and interest in its affairs as it passes through times of attracted much larger numbers, now “graduates and friends”. In momentous change, are undiminished. 1961 some 250 heard Universities Commission Chairman Sir Leslie Martin on “The Future of Australian Universities”, and in From time to time the Committee has undertaken special 1965, 400 attended when Prime Minister R.G. Menzies spoke on projects. The latest of these is the gift to the University of a re- the achievements and limitations of Commonwealth spending creation of the plate associated with its foundation stone. on universities, the need to preserve standards and related 11 LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR OF VICTORIA — 1854

ir Charles Hotham, (1806-1855) he unnecessarily disparaged his predecessor and the existing Swas born on 14 January 1806 in officials. Despite the weight of public opinion against the mining Dennington, Suffolk, England. After licence fee, he proved unwilling to abandon it. Thus in the a successful career in the navy he was Eureka crisis he could depend on little help from the officials, appointed Lieutenant-Governor of and his popularity, though still existing, was a fragile thing. To Victoria on 6 December 1853. The Hotham the crisis was a rebellion, and he wanted to demonstrate discovery of gold had given Victoria to would-be insurgents the futility of challenging a strong the reputation of being a most military force. However, his communications with officials in difficult colonial post. Hotham had Ballarat were poor and on 3 December they precipitated armed diplomatic and naval successes to action which Hotham in Melbourne wrongly interpreted as recommend him and, compared with proof of the continuing danger of insurrection. His diplomatic his predecessor Charles La Trobe, it talents therefore had little room for exercise. He had already set was an impressive appointment. He up a royal commission to inquire into discontent on the fields, arrived in Melbourne on 22 June 1854. He soon appreciated and now urged on its work; he also arranged the resignation of the need to increase revenue, strengthen administration and the chief secretary, JLFV Foster, who was unpopular among allay goldfields discontent by extending political privileges and the miners. Among other ineptitudes he alienated the capable improving the licence system, but he totally misunderstood his auditor-general, HCE Childers. Fortunately for Hotham six position as governor of a sizeable Crown colony, particularly months of political quiet followed Eureka. His post had been Victoria, for which a new constitution providing ‘responsible’ raised to a full governorship on 3 February 1855. In November he government was then under consideration in London. He sent his resignation. His health was failing and on 17 December courted the working population, especially miners, while he caught a chill while opening the Melbourne gasworks. He remaining clearly authoritarian. He managed to upset the firmest died on 31 December, survived by his wife Jane Sarah, daughter supporters of authority, the propertied and official classes. He of Lord Bridport, whom he had married on 10 December 1853. was obstinate and secretive with his councillors and, unwilling (Image adapted from Sir Charles Hotham, Governor of Victoria 1854-1855, by to delegate matters to his officials, he soon exhausted himself Batchelder’s, photographer, courtesy of State Library of Victoria.) with work. When introducing reform of government finance

FIRST CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

ir Redmond Barry a fee for such services. His interest in the Aborigines was S(1813-1880), judge, general and lasted all his life. was born on 7 June 1813 at In 1851, when the Port Phillip District was separated from Ballyclough, County Cork, New South Wales as the colony of Victoria, Barry was Ireland, the third son of appointed its first Solicitor-General but only briefly, before Major-General Henry Green being elevated to the new bench of the Supreme Court of Barry and his wife Phoebe, Victoria in January 1852 as first puisne judge née Drought. He graduated He was (despite beliefs that the credit belongs largely to from Trinity College, Dublin Hugh Childers) the indubitable prime founder of the (BA, 1837), was admitted to University of Melbourne, of which he was first Chancellor the Irish Bar in 1838, and (1853), a position he held till his death. He was equally attended at Lincoln’s Inn, the father of the Melbourne Public Library (now the State from which he received a Library of Victoria) and its then associated Art Gallery. testimonium in August 1838. Barry’s role in the development of these institutions must He sailed from London in the Calcutta on 27 April 1839 recognise that the greatest help came from his drive, energy and arrived in on 1 September. He was admitted to and influence. the Bar in Sydney on 19 October. After seeking positions In criminal cases Barry had a reputation for harshness, in New South Wales he sailed for the new Port Phillip though it was a harsh period and he was in tune with his settlement in the Parkfield, landing there on 13 November. times. Probably his most famous trial was that of Ned From that day Melbourne was his home. Kelly in 1880. Though the Kelly legend continues to excite On 12 April 1841, the first day of the first sittings of the attention, no substantial criticism of Barry’s conduct of that Supreme Court in Melbourne, Barry was admitted to trial can be sustained. practice by its first judge, John Walpole Willis. After a very short illness he died in East Melbourne on 23 In the early years of Melbourne Barry became unofficial November 1880, only twelve days after the execution of Ned standing counsel for the Aborigines. He laboured as hard Kelly. He was buried in the Melbourne general cemetery. and as earnestly upon their cases, often capital matters, as he (Adapted from a photograph of Sir Redmond Barry (1813-1880), by an unknown did upon his other briefs, though he rarely, if ever, received photographer, courtesy of University of Melbourne Archives. UMA/I/1108) 12 FIRST COUNCILLORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

ugh Culling Eardley Goold. Goold worked vigorously to build the church in HChilders (1827-1896), the Victoria, and his church schools benefited from state aid. He son of a clergyman, did well at emphatically opposed the coming of secular education. In Cambridge, and was advised by 1874, he was made Archbishop of the new metropolitan see family connections and Secretary of Melbourne. On his death in 1891, he was buried within of State, Earl Grey, that an St Patrick’s Cathedral, the building of which was perhaps his apprenticeship in the colonies greatest triumph. would set his career on a favourable illiam John Foster (1831-1909), lawyer and politician, path. He arrived in Port Phillip Wwas born into a distinguished Anglo-Irish family, and in 1850 with his beautiful young educated at Trinity College, Dublin. Before he had finished bride. his degree, he left for the Victorian goldfields. He refused a His first post was as Inspector of Schools. In 1851 he was post in the Victorian public service, and eventually moved to made an Immigration Agent and a National Commissioner of New South Wales as farmer. He took his Law degree in 1858. Education. He was capable, and in La Trobe’s words, he was Appointed to the Legislative Council, he was attorney-general “a sort of living lexicon” of knowledge. With the help of Barry 1877-1878, and again in 1887. In 1888 he was appointed to and Childers, Governor La Trobe had the Act to establish the the Supreme Court, retiring in 1894. University of Melbourne passed in January 1853. Childers was ir William Foster Stawell (1815-1889) was a younger rewarded with the Vice Chancellorship. He became a member Sson of Irish gentry, educated at Trinity College, Dublin. of the Executive Council governing the Colony in late 1853. He migrated in 1842, and after a brief period as a squatter, His other posts in Victoria were Collector of Customs 1853-6, turned to the practice of law in the new colony. Appointed MLA 1856-7, Commissioner of Trade and Customs 1856-7. Attorney-General 1851-57 by La Trobe he was the most able of all in the government, although an arrogant, impulsive He returned to Great Britain where there followed a cantankerous man. He was Chief Justice 1857-86, and Acting distinguished career as Liberal MP 1860-85, 1885-96. He was Governor 1876 and 1884. successively Civil Lord of the Admiralty, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Secretary of State for War, Chancellor of r (later Sir) (1803-1871), the Exchequer and Home Secretary. Dthwarted for advancement early in his medical career, (Image adapted from Hugh Culling Eardley Childers (1827-896), by an migrated to Melbourne in 1840, where he followed pastoral unknown photographer, courtesy of University of Melbourne Archives. and merchant interests while developing his medical practice. UMA/I/1675). He was Mayor of Melbourne 1845-6, and served briefly on ishop Charles Perry (1807-1891) was born into a the Legislative Council of NSW as one of five representing the Bwealthy English family, and educated at Harrow and colony of Victoria. He was elected to the Victorian Legislative Cambridge. Ill-health forced him to abandon the study of Council in 1851, becoming its first Speaker. He was the first Law; he eventually joined an evangelical circle at Cambridge President of the re-formed Legislative Council 1856-70, and was ordained in the Church of England in 1836. Because Chairman of the Board of National Education 1851-62, and a of his committed work for the Church Missionary Society, Trustee of the Public Library. his name was put to the Archbishop of Canterbury as an ev. Irving Hetherington (1809-1875), a Scot educated appropriate candidate for the Bishopric of the new Diocese Rat Edinburgh University, was a prominent Melbourne of Melbourne. He was consecrated in Westminster Abbey in Presbyterian minister. He arrived in Sydney in 1837, and 1847, and arrived with his wife Frances in Melbourne in 1848. was called to the Scots Church in Melbourne in 1847. He There followed extensive work to build the Church of England was deeply embroiled in the problems of division in the in Victoria. He established both Melbourne and Geelong Presbyterian Church for many years. Grammar Schools, although his episcopate coincided almost ev. Alexander Morison (1813-1887) was born in exactly with the transfer of educational authority from the RIreland, but migrated to Hobart in 1832. After a brief church to the state in Victoria. He relinquished his post in return to England where he studied for the Congregational 1874 and returned to England. Church ministry, he returned as a missionary in 1838, and ishop (later Archbishop) James Alipius Goold became pastor of the Independent Church in Collins Street B(1812-1886) was born into a prosperous Roman Catholic in 1843. He was a liberalising influence on the University family in Cork, Dublin. He entered the Augustinian order, Council, supporting, for example, the admission of women studied in Ireland and Italy, and was ordained a priest in 1848. as students. He was a Professor of the Congregational Church He was sent to work in Sydney in 1838, and was appointed by Theological College until his death. Pope Pius IX as Bishop of the new see of Melbourne in 1847. ames Croke (1790-?), a lawyer educated at Trinity College Religious factional strife flared immediately, when Charles JDublin, was appointed Clerk of the Crown in Port Phillip Perry was commonly referred to as “Bishop of Melbourne” shortly after his arrival in the colony in 1839. He was admitted while Goold’s position was ignored. This distinction is to the Bar in 1841 and appointed Crown Prosecutor. He was preserved in the Foundation Plate of the University of a member of the Legislative Council 1852-4 and Solicitor- Melbourne, where only Perry is named Bishop, and precedes General of Victoria 1852-4. 13 dward Grimes (1811-59) was educated at Rugby and orman Campbell (1806-1859), a Scottish-born Major EOxford. He took up land in the colony as a squatter, Nin the British army, sold his commission in 1849 and and was a member of the first Legislative Council. He was emigrated to South Australia where he bought land and Commissioner for Crown Lands in Westernport, and was became briefly a nominated member of the Legislative appointed Auditor-General in 1854. He held the post of Council, chairing a committee on education. After resolving Victorian Immigration Agent in the early 1850s. He retired some financial difficulties he moved in 1852 to Victoria to to England. be Lieutenant Governor La Trobe’s private secretary. On 31 udge Robert Williams Pohlman (1811-1877) studied December 1853 he became the first permanent head of the Jlaw in London before migrating to Melbourne in 1840. Registrar-General’s department. Admitted to the colonial bar in 1841, he became a County olin Campbell (1817-1903), BA (Oxon), from a wealthy Court Judge in 1852 continuing until his old age. He was CGlasgow family, arrived with his brother in Hobart Town founding Chairman of the Denominational Board of in 1838. In 1840 they took sheep to Port Phillip, where they Education 1848-62, and President of the Early Closing chose 48,000 acres in the Ararat district, for a run which was Association. divided between them. He spoke and wrote on public affairs r (later Sir) Francis Murphy (1809-1891), pastoralist all his life, in particular promoting the role of the churches Dand parliamentarian, migrated from Ireland to Sydney in education. He was school inspector and secretary of the in 1836 and thence to Port Phillip in 1846. He was elected to Denominational Schools Board from 1851-1859, and an early the first Legislative Council 1851-5, and was instrumental in proponent of the University’s establishment. He was a member helping to establish provision for schools, roads and railways. of its inaugural Council from 1853-1865, serving briefly as He was first Speaker of the Legislative Assembly 1856-66, and its secretary. He was a member of the Legislative Council a Trustee of the Public Library. from 1854, then of the Legislative Assembly from 1856-1859. Prominent in Anglican affairs, he was ordained in 1879. dward Stone Parker (1802-1865) was appointed by the EColonial Office as Assistant Protector of Aborigines in auchlan Mackinnon (1817-1888) migrated from the Isle Port Phillip, under G. Robinson. He arrived in the colony Lof Skye to Van Diemen’s Land in 1838, eventually settling in 1839, establishing a Station at Franklinford for aborigines. in Port Phillip where he took up pastoral runs. He was a Parker was the most sympathetic of all the Protectors, but member of the Legislative Council 1848-1850 and 1852-1853. the Gold Rush ruined the work to assist aborigines. He was In 1852 he became a partner in the Argus and in 1853 joined a member of the University Council in 1853 and a member the University Council. He returned to England in 1868. In of the Legislative Council 1854-5, and an Inspector for the the early 1880s he raised money from former colonists to pay Denominational Schools Board 1857-62. for a bust of Hugh Childers and an ebony and silver casket containing letters, the original draft of the University’s Act of illiam Clark Haines (1810-1866), BA (Cantab), Incorporation in Childers’ hand and other papers which he practised surgery in England before emigrating in W believed supported the contention that Childers rather than about 1841 and buying land to farm near Geelong. He Sir Redmond Barry had founded the University. The casket became prominent in local affairs, sold his property and was is now displayed in the Council Chamber; the bust is in the a nominated, then elected, member of the Legislative Council Wilson Hall foyer. in 1851-1852, 1853-1856 and 1865-1866. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly in 1856-1858 and 1860-1864. He odfrey Howitt (1800-1873), (MD Edinburgh 1830), was Colonial Secretary from December 1854 to 1855, Chief Garrived in Port Phillip in 1840. He was a member of Secretary 1855-1857 and 1857-1858, and Treasurer 1861-1863. the University of Melbourne Council from 1853-1857 and of He served on the University of Melbourne Council from its Medical School Committee. He followed in Victoria the 1853-1865, and was Vice-Chancellor from 1857-1858. interests in entomology and botany he had pursued before eorge William Rusden (1819-1903) arrived in Sydney emigrating and became first Vice-President of the Philosophical Gin 1834, engaged in pastoral pursuits and worked in Society of Victoria (soon the Royal Society of Victoria). His China before returning in 1849, when he was appointed agent books on botany and entomology and his entomological for the National (i.e., state-directed and secular) Schools. In collection were left to the University of Melbourne, together 1851 he became clerk in the Victorian Colonial Secretary’s with £1000 for scholarships in botany, geology and zoology. office and in 1852 clerk of the Executive Council. In 1856 rancis Maloney White (1819-1888), London-trained he became clerk of the parliaments. He was a member of the Farchitect, arrived in in 1848, and after travelling Board of National Education in Victoria from 1853-1862 and about the country set up a practice in Melbourne in 1851. helped to found the Shakespeare scholarship at the University In 1854 his design was selected for the University’s first of Melbourne and Shakespeare prizes for children. His building: a quadrangle with cloisters and an ornamental numerous published works included The Discovery, Survey front, in Tudor style (the south side was long left open, and and Settlement of Port Phillip (Melbourne 1871), Curiosities when built did not follow White’s design). of Colonization (London 1874) and Histories of Australia and New Zealand (London, 1883). He retired to England in 1882 ohn Sinclair. John Sinclair and Son were the successful but returned in January 1893. Rusden bequeathed his books Jtenderers for the contract to construct the first stage and papers to Trinity College (University of Melbourne) and of the building designed by White: the foundations and to the Church of England Grammar School. His great-niece is basements. Numerous variations in the contract led to a member of the present Committee of Convocation. litigation between Sinclair and the University.

14 WARDENS OF THE SENATE - 1867-1923

The Rev. Dr John Edward Bromby, MA BD DD Comb. Andrew Harper, MA. From 14 September 1882 to 13 May From 16 July 1867 to 8 Augus 1868. 1886. The Hon. Dr William Edward Hearn, QC, AM LLD Dub. Charles Alfred Topp, MA LLB FLS. From 13 May 1886 From 8 August 1868, to 24 August 1875. to 12 September 1890. The Hon. Sir John Madden, GCMG, BA LLB LLD. From Dr Thomas Patrick McInerney, MA LLD. From 12 24 August 1875 to 14 September 1882. September 1890 to 17 December 1923.

WARDENS OF CONVOCATION - 1924-1975

Morris Mondle Phillips, MA LLM. From 24 March 1924, His Honour Judge John Gerald Norris, ED, LLM. From 5 to 13 November 1934. November 1962 to 18 August, 1965. Dr Leslie Scott Latham, MA MD BS FRACP. From 11 The Hon. Mr Justice Clifford Inch Menhennitt, QC, LLM. From January 1935 to 14 February 1944. 19 August 1965 to 17 April 1968. The Hon. Sir Arthur Dean, Kt QC, LLM Hon. LLD. From The Hon. Mr Justice William Oliver Harris, QC, LLM. 10 May 1944 to 15 March 1950. From 1 May, 1968 to 19 August 1970. Elias Godfrey Coppel, CMG QC, LLM LLD. From 1 Samuel Austin Frank Pond, OBE ED, MA LLB DipCom. April 1950 to 15 April 1959. From 23 September 1970 to 30 September 1972. Robert Fowler, OBE VD, MD BS FRCS. From 4 May The Hon. Mr Justice Raymond Moyle Northrop, QC, 1959 to 4 November 1962. LLM. From 17 November 1972 to 14 January 1975.

PRESIDENTS OF THE GRADUATES - 1975-1985

The Hon. Mr Justice Raymond Moyle Northrop, QC, Robin Lorimer Sharwood, LLM Calif. SJD Harv. BA LLM. From 15 January 1975 to 16 December 1975. LLB. From 1 May 1980 to 28 February 1982. Ronald Geoffrey Downes, DAgrSc FAIAS FSCSA Raymond Milton Johnson, SM Harv. BCE. From 1 FAATS. From 17 December 1975 to 20 June 1976. March 1982 to 19 April 1983. Thomas Peter Bruce, LLB. From 21 June 1976 to 30 Nina Livingstone Carr, BA DipEd. From 20 July 1983 April 1980. to 6 January 1986.

PRESIDENTS OF CONVOCATION - 1986-

Nina Livingstone Carr, BA DipEd. From 7 January 1986 Timothy Latham, BSc Monash BSc(Hons) Melb. BDSc Melb. to 2 May 1986. LDS. From 15 January 1992 to 31 December 1999. John Michael Clarke, BE. From 3 May 1986 to 31 Thomas Peter Bruce, LLB Melb. From 1 January 2000 December 1989. to 5 March 2001. Barbara May Hamer, BA BSW. From 1 January 1990 to Robin James Condron, BVSc Melb. PhD La Trobe DipBact 18 April 1990. Lond. From 11 April 2001 to 31 December 2005. Harry Stewart Wragge, AM, BEE MEngSc. From 19 Lesley Joan Boston, BA Melb. BEd Melb. MACE. From April 1990 to 31 December 1991. 1 January 2006.

15 COMMITTEE OF CONVOCATION - 2007

President of Convocation: Deputy President of Convocation: Lesley Joan Boston, BA, BEd Melb MACE Laurence Simpson, MD BS Melb. FRACS FCCP

Representatives of the Graduates in Architecture Representatives of the Graduates in Engineering: and Planning: Alan William Abbott, BE (Elec), MBA Melb FIEAust Peter Robert Hirst, BArch (Hons), DipT&RP Melb FRAIA FIICA MRAPI Registered Architect Victoria and NSW Alan James Gibbs, BE (Elec) (Hons), ME Melb PhD Robert Allan McGauran, BArch (Hons), BA, PGradDip Wisc. (PDM) Melb LFRAIA CPP VPELA Registered John Humphrey, BMechE Melb MIEAust CPEng Architect Frank Alfred Moorman Lees, AM MBE BMechE Melb Representatives of the Graduates in Arts and Representatives of the Graduates in Faculty Social Work: of Land and Food Resources and Veterinary Cecily Edith Close, MA Melb PhD Monash, ARMIT Science: Helen Margaret Cohn, BA, MA Melb GDipLib Anne Marjorie Ada, BAgSc, BEd Melb Canberra. Jenny Stillman, BVSc, MVSc, Melb MACVSc Jennifer Digby, BA (Hons), JD Melb . Representatives of the Graduates in Law: Barbara Fary, OAM BA Melb BEd Melb MEd Monash Richard Cook, LLB ANU LLM Melb PhD Lincoln FACE FACEA Matthew R Corrigan, LLB (Hons), BA (Hons) Melb Gary Leonard Israel, BA Melb BEd Monash MACE Jillian Mary Crowe, BA, LLB Melb Geoffrey Homan Thomas, BA, BEd Melb Michael William Gorton, AM LLB, BCom Melb Astrid Marguerita Neal-Adam, BA (Hons) Melb FRACS(Hon) FANZCA(Hon) Eileen Parker, BA Kerala, BSW Melb Roslyn Alice Otzen, BA (Hons) Melb MEd Deakin, Representatives of the Graduates in Medicine, PhD Melb ASDA MACE Dentistry and Health Sciences: Leslie Rowe, BA (Hons), DipEd Melb John Kenneth Harcourt, OAM DDSc Melb FRACDS FDSRCSEd(Hon.) Representatives of the Graduates in Economics Peter Anderson Lowe, MBBS Melb FANZCA and Commerce and the Melbourne Business Ian Rechtman, MBBS Melb FANZCA School: Beverley-Anne Rodan, BDSc, BA Melb Barrington Frederick Benham Dance, BCom Melb Stan Sahhar, MDSc Melb FRACDS LDS Vic. David Michael Dodd, JP BCom Melb Laurence Simpson, MD BS Melb FRACS FCCP Alan Thomson Douglas, BCom, GradDipTaxLaws Melb CPA Representatives of the Graduates in Science: Allan George Handberg, BCom Melb Eric Stanley Bellchambers, BSc, BEd Melb John Gerard Meehan, BCom Melb FCIT AFAIM John Francis Nicholas, BA, BSc Melb FlnstP FAIP Noel Joseph Whiting, BCom Melb FCA Douglas George Parbery, BScAgr Syd MAgrSc Qld PhD Melb Representatives of the Graduates in Education Ann Southcombe Rusden, BSc Melb TSTC MACE. and Music: Barry N Southern, BSc Melb Jane Helen Elton Brown, MMus, DipEd Melb Malory Ann Weston, BSc (Hons) Cant MSc Melb Helen Margaret Fitzpatrick, BA, MEd, DipEd Melb Rosalind McMillan, BMus Melb MEd LaTrobe PhD (As at 31 August 2007). Melb DipED LaTrobe John Reginald Nelson, BSc, BEd Melb BA Monash MEdAdmin NE DEd Melb MACE MACEL

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