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George Alfred Henry Wille OCTOBER, 1951 The following wide range o£ TOOLS are now in stock. Make your choice early and avoid disappointment. JACK PLANES & PLANE & WOOD-WORKERS BENCH VICES R. I. P. PAGE 143 ,/^s, CARPENTERS BRACES, BRACEJOT*. Blaze of Kinsgwood 144 George Alfred Henry Wille 154 ' BEECHWOOD MARKING GAUGES, Historic Kalutara MINCERS, PhmKS-Electrieian, Engineer's and Things in General 160 165 r TINMAN'S SNIPS, TURN SCREWS-Ca*;^, Genealogy of the Family of Paulusz of Ceylon TINMA 169 <?«., ^ pEELER GAUGES, SPRING Corrections-r-Piachaud and Keuneman Genealogy 174 Electricians and Uatthrt, ^ „,;„WGj Etc^ Genealogy of the Family of Hoffman of Ceylon 175 Translation from Baldaeus' Book ... 180 10 An Anecdote of the Past 187 11 Summary of Minutes of Meetings of the General Committee 188 Further particulars ori application. Contributions are invited from members on subjects calcula- "d to be of interest to the Union. MSS. jnust be written on one ide of the paper only and must reach the Editor at least a fort- \ight before.the date of publication of the Journal. Published quarterly. Subscription Ms. 10/-per annum, post 'ree. Single copies, if available, Us. 5J~ to be had at the O.B. U. Hall. Journal of the - Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon, VOL. XLI.i - OCTOBER, 1951. [No. 4 R. I. F, Ceylon is today much the poorer by the loss of two prominent and distinguished men. They were ornaments of the Dutch Burgher Oom- munity. Both were held, in the widest and sincerest respect by all Communities throughout the country they had served so usefully and ellicieiitly. There was very little which was common to both Louis ftdward Blaze and George Alfred Henry Wille. There were many things in which they differed. Each, however, carved out for himself u career which.is as wide-spread as it is pregnant with achievement. Mr. Blaze, the elder of the two was in his 90th year. He was active both in body and mind up to the .very end. His great will to live grew less after he had participated recently in the Jubilee Celebrations of Kingswood —the school he founded and nursed. Mr. .Wille on the oLher hand spent his latter years in retirement, gradually failing in the flesh although his spirit remained strong. He too had attained the four score span of life and calmly awaited his end ; "Content to live but not afraid to die". It was against the nature and the habit of mind of both Mr. Blaze and Mr. Wille, to be pushful and aggressive, to use invectives or cast aspersions on opponents, however bitter. Their memory is not honour­ L_. E. BLAZE. C.B.E-. J.P. ed the less on that account, or from the fact that both were true men (Block lent and Picture reproduced hy Itind permission of who acted up to their convictions. The " Ceylon Observer.") To do justice reviewing the careei'S of two men such as these, cannot be counted an easy task. In the pages which follow some attempt has been made to write their biographies. It cannot be denied ihat these writings do no more than emphasise our respect and appro­ bation, and express our sense of loss. Though both Mr. Blaxe and Mr. Wille may have lost pecuniarily and in distinction by the careers they iiually adopted, they have set an example in many ways which their countrymen will do well to follow, and which is the finest legacy they have left to those who lament their passing, 114 THE JOURNAL Off 'JHE WWii ivuKGi-JEii UKloK 145 BLAZE OF KINGSWOOD $90. From October 1885 to July 1890 he was Second Master (act- g twice as Head Master) in the Boys' High School. Lahore. AH lese Schools were under High Anglican management, but Mr. laze, although not belonging to this persuasion, received a warm eloome, aud in after years acknowledged his deep debt to Anglican A MEMOIR ' — iitings and Anglican friends, with whom he maintained the osest relations up to the date of his death. " He was not only one of Ceylon's great men, but a man great by any real, standard, one ol the earth's great men.'1 Such was the Returning to Ceylon in 1891, Mr. Blaze was undecided whether tribute paid to the subject of our memoir by his friend, the lie v. A. ) stay here or to go back to India. The latter alternative held G. Fraser, when he learnt that this great man of rare under­ .%ny attractions for him. India had been the great goal of his standing, of hospitable and genial disposition, charitable, and most reams in childhood and he had already spent eight happy years estimable in every relation of life, had passed away. Although Mr. lere-how happy they were can be gathered from the numerous Blaze had neither the ambition nor the opportunity for taking a aems written in India at this time which he included in his collec- conspicuous part in public affairs, he counted friends in all classes : on of "Occasional Verses." But he had long cherished a keen of society who today deeply and widely lament his death. ■?sire for a school of his own, which he could work in his own way. lean Stanley's Life of Dr. Arnold was one source of inspiration jhim; and something of the Rugby life was suggested him by In assessing the measure of the loss caused by the death of ■hat he saw at St, James' School, Calcutta. Anecdotes of Eton, Mr. R. G. Anthonisz twenty years ago we stated in the pages of the 1 ■ rrow, and Winchester, which he eagerly read and remembered Journal: " The fulness of our loss cannot he estimated at present, but will be felt more and more as the years pass by. To us, of this ■ 'de a deep impression on him, and he saw no reason why boys in day and generation, it is an inestimable privilege to have known don should not respond in the same way. The point that tron- him and held converse with him. To his personal friends, and they :1 him most in Ceylon schools, as indeed in all other schools are many, there remains the fragrant memory of close and intimate ■ iwu to him, was the strange distance between teacher and pupils, association." [ the needlessly hostile relations that existed between them, ire was despotism in the schools in those days, and not always" These words are equally applicable to Mr. Blaze, with only this "enevolent despotism. Mr. Blaze's experience, of ten years con- difference. Mr. Anthonisz's ambitions were, in the nature of things. ced him that it was quite possible for a school to be carried on directed for the most part to the upliftment of the Community to hoot these hostile or even strained relations between teacher which he belonged. Mr. Blaze's efforts took a wider sweep and i pupil. embraced all communities. Barriers of race, caste or creed had no meaning for him. While being faithful to the Community to which Nor did Mr. Blaze approve of the practice in vogue of judging he belonged, and ever watchful of its interests, Mr. Blaze counted i merits of a school by examination results, and these alone. He some of his closest friends and well-wishers among the other Com­ s prepared to"admit.that boys should pass some examinations, munities, and was a welcome guest at their homes, from the highest ! ■ J there were many boys who could not, and yet might be a real to the lowliest. dit to the school. A school had much more to do, whether by iks or by its general atmosphere, than to qualify boys for exami- : Born in Kandy in the year 1861, Mr. Blaze received his educa­ i ;ions, and the examination list was not the only, or the best cri~ ion, of the worth of a School. Mr. Blaze was well aware that to tion at Trinity College, and true to his instincts, at the early age of rt a new School with these two dislikes was to start with the 15, he started a College Magazine in manuscript, of which he was iviest of handicaps; for the first gave the public an impression both Editor and Manager. In January 1880, having passed the weak discipline, and the second an impression that instruction Calcutta University First Examination in Arts, he was appointed the usual subjects was neglected. But he had the courage of his Headmaster of the Lower School of the College. He resigned this ivictions, and the experiment proved in the end to be a complete post a month later to be apprenticed as a proctor student, but-soon :cess. gave up this study as the Law had no attractions for him, and left for Calcutta in' December 1882 to take up the B. A. Examination of the University, Having graduated, for three months in 1883 The School which was to be the testing ground of fchisjaovel he taught at Bishop's College, Calcutta, then for nineteen months >eriment was opened on the 4th May, 1891, in a house in Pavilion at St, James'School, to which he came again for five months in *eet in Kandy. There were eleven pupils present on the opening f, bat the numbers gradually increased] and two and a half years 146 THE JOUE&AL O# *aa btTdfi EXJKGHEE vision ill afterwards the average daily attendance was thirty-one. Small and slow progress it may seem to us of the present day, but Mr. Blaze of education in Ceylon with the arrival of the Rev.
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