July 1966 School Magazine

July, 1966

Brisbane Girls' Grammar Scl,ool Magazine

July; 1966

Brisbane Girls' Grammar School Magazine

Barker also hastened the completion of building of St . Andrew's Cathedral whose foundation stone had been laid in 1819 by Macquarie . Bourke had !aid a new foundation stone in 1837 and James Hume was appointed architect using a design based on St. Mary's Church, Oxford, and Magdalen College. 1{, 1842, bmldmg stopped, but was resumed with improved financial conditions under the architect, Blacket. However, the gold rush caused a further cessation of work. Barker recommended the construction and the Cathedral was completed and opened (!n St . Andrew's. Day, 1868 . . Barker also es.tab!ished the Church Society -the chief mstrument m the creat10n of new parishes in the diocese of New South Wales. Synodical Government was finally achieved in 1866, when the Parliament of New South Wales p::,.ssed an act enabling the Church to manage its own property . This was followed m December of the same year by the calling of the Sydney Diocesan . S~nod which has met .annually ever since and from which developed the Provmcial Synod, a body :which legislates .on matters delegated to it by the D10cesan Synod and also receives appeals agamst the vote of the Bishop. The first Provincial Synod met on the 11th May , 1869. 'J'.hroughout the various Australian dioceses , provinces, under the jurisdiction of Bishops, were set up. The province of Newcastle had its humble beginnings m a slab church built in 1812 and replaced in 1818 by Christ Church, which was opened by Macquarie . At first, William Cowper ministered there and it was not until 1821 that Newcastle received its first permanent chaplain, Rev . G. A. Middle- ton. In 1827, Middleton was succeeded by the Rev. F. M. Wilkinson who visited the Hu_nter Valley as well as \)eing Rector of Newcastle. By 1834, increased populat10n necessitated the appomtment of the Rev . G. K . Rusden to Maitland and by 1843, seven new parochial districts had received priests. In 1847, New- castle became a separate diocese with Dr. William Tyrell as Bishop . The words chosen for his vault by those who succeeded him ·-"William Tyrell who gave all he was and all he had to the Diocese of Newcastle"- express eloquently the manner of man Bishop Tyrell was . He took great interest in the children of his diocese, in his clergy and their families and on 9th May , 1873, the anniversary of Tyrell's 25th year in the Diocese , Canon Child, senior clergymen "at the final hour of the Third Session of the Third Synod ... read an Address of Congratu- lation to the Bishop 'from the Clergy and Laity of his Diocese in Synod Assembled' ." William Tyrell died 24th March, 1879, and Archdeacon Child stated -"his giving up all he possessed for the good of our Church in this Diocese, has set before us a noble example which has startled the world". The first Synod met in 1865 by consensual pact (without legislative action) . Christ Church Cathedral was begun in 1884 and finally completed in 1928 when the Nave was raised to its full height . In 1935, Bishop Batty was instrumental in inviting the Church Army to set up its first headquarters and training establishment in Australia, in Newcastle . The Diocese of Newcastle supports several schools , hostels, homes for the aged and children's homes and provides full-time chaplains for the Missions to Seamen Society . The aim of the leaders and the faithful of the Diocese of Newcastle in the 120 years of its existence has been "the realization of a Kingdom, which while in, is not of, this world" . The first church service in the Goulburn area was held in 1820 and in 1827 , the Rev . Thomas Hassall was appointed to the parish of "Australia beyond Liverpool". By 1830, the Rev. Vincent was also making quarterly visits to the Goulburn area and the first resident chaplain, the Rev. William Sowerby, took up his position in 1837. The first Church building was begun two years later and finally consecrated in 1845. In the 18S0's, three· laymen· of the Church, John, Robert and Charles Campbell, were largely responsible for the founding of the See of Goulburn . Charles Campbell felt that episcopal ministrations were too infrequent in the "interior" of the colony and accordingly, in October, 1857, he wrote to the Rev. Ernest Hawkins, honorary secretary to the Colonial Bishopric's Council, suggesting that it was impossible "for the Church in Australia to flourish if one bishop is to have control of so extensive a territory". Thus, after many objections from those who felt the expense unwarranted, the bishopric of Goulburn came into being, and Doctor Mesac Thomas as first Bishop was installed in his Cathedral, St. Saviour 's Church, on the 8th April, 1864. In 1946, the Bishop's residence was moved to Canberra with the formation there of the national capital and in 1949 an Assistant Bishop was appointed to live in Goulburn. In 1950, the Diocese became known as "Canberra and Goulburn" . The discovery of routes on to the Liverpool Plains by Dangar, Richard and Nowland opened the way for settlement in the New England district in 1819. The Australian Agricultural Company was given large tracts of land in 1819, and the resident chaplain at Port Stephens , the Rev. W. M. Cowper, paid visits to New England to hold services. In 1845, Bishop Broughton appointed the Rev.

H. Tingcombe as resident chaplain to Armidale and in 1849 Ed~ard Willia!fiS became chaplain to Tamworth. By 1866, four other areas had r~ce1ved chaplams and the Diocese of Armidale and Grafton was then created with the Rev. W. C. Sawyer as Bishop. Bishop Sawyer was enthusiastic about his work .and won the confidence of his people but his episcopacy was unfortunately termmated by a drowning accident which shocked church people throughout New South Wales and left the newly formed and only partly organized diocese without a bishop until 1869 when James F. Turner arrived, to begin an eposcopate of twenty-three years of extension and consolidation . In 1914, Grafton became a separate See under Cecil Druitt . On 20th April, 1815 the first service beyond the Blue Mountains was held for Macquarie, on his ~ay to found Bathurst, at Cox's River, and on 7th May, the first Divine Service was held in Bathurst. Settlers began to spread to the area and in 1822 Marsden held a service in a public granery. The first regular chaplain,' Thomas' Hassall, was able to serve in the barn with a thatched. roof which had been opened in 1825 . In 1828, the Rev. J . E. Keane was appomt.ed to Kelso (Old Bathurst) and built a church there. By 1840, another chaplam, Rev. Joseph Walpole had been stationed at New Bathurst and her.e a church was completed and consecrated by Bishop Broughton in 1848. When gold was discovered at Summerhill Creek in 1851, population increa~ed by leaps and bo1:1nds , and under the direction of Bishop Broughton , the mmcrs of Sofa!'! bmlt a church-Christ Church. By 1865, Bathurst was ready for the creation of . a Bishopric; All Saints' Church was e,-ilarged and _improved as a pro-Cathedral and the Australian-born son of the pioneer chaplam, Samuel Marsden, ~he Rev . Samuel E . Marsden of Trinity College, Cambridge , was enthroned Bishop of Bathurst on 5th May , 1870. The diocese of Riverina was formed in 1884, to become the fiftl~ and final See in the Province of New South Wales . In 1867, a pioneer. pn~st of the district the Rev. John Gribble the first .resident minister at Jerilderie, opened a settl~ment for aborigines at 'Murrumbidgee , in which project he ':"as. strongly supported by Sir Henry Parkes . Settlement spread and the See of _R1veri,-ia c'!me into being with its Cathedral town of Hay and with Sydney Lmton its first Bishop . In New South Wales , progress has certainly been achieved and the bishops, cathedral, . services and societies of the provi,-ices serve as a monument to all the priests and laymen who have striven to give the colony the Church of her Motherland. The first service held in Tasmania · was a thanksgiving offered by t_he R.ev. Robert Knopwood for the safe arrival .at Hobart Town in 1804 ?f an exJ:)ed1t10,n sent out under Lieutenant-Governor Collms to establish a colony m Van J?1eman s Land . In the same year., a similar expedition arrived at the Tamar River ~ut without a chaplain, so services _here were conducte~ by the !ayma,-i, Edward Mam, until 1819 , when Rev. James You! arnved . Nothmg was done m Hobart. about erecting a permanent church until 19th February, 1817, when the foundation of St. David' s was laid by Lieutenant-Governor Davey "to perpetuate the memo~y of his Honour the late David Collins , Esq. , Lieutenant-qovernor of Van Diemen s Land" . Altho.'.igh the first service was held in 1819, 1t was the 9th February, 1823, before St. David's was consecrated by the Rev. Samuel Marsden, Sem9r Chaplain of the Colonies. St. John's Church in Launceston was opened m December 1825 in the same year as St. Matthew's at New Norfolk . By 1823, four mor~ chaplains had landed in the colony and in 1830, Archdea':on Broughton paid his first visit. In 1832, Lieutenant-Governor Arthur repeated his r eques.t f'!r chaplains and asked for either an Archdea.con or a rural De'!n for, he s'!'d, it is " just as easy for an Archdeacon resident m. Engl'!nd to superintend the spiritual affairs of Gibraltar as for an Archdeacon resident m New. South Wales to . super- intend affairs in Van Diemen's 'Land" . Consequently, m 1836, Tasman1a W'!S granted the status of an archdeaco!lry under Ar~hdeacon Hutchms. Durmg .his time, the population of Launceston mc_reased sufficently. to warrant the establish- ment of a second parish and the Pansh of Holy Tnmty was set up. In June, 1841, Archdeacon Hutchins died. By this time th~ colony had d.eveloped so steadily that church establishment needed strengthemng. No . great 1mprov~n:i~nt could be expected until Tasmania could become a "separate diocese with. fac1ht1es for independent organization". The Home Gov~rnment took . speedy act10n af~er Hutchins ' death and the result was the. creat10n of the d10cese ?f Tasmama. Francis Russell Nixon was consecrated Bishop on S!, Bartholomew s Day, _1842, and was enthroned in June, 1843. By 1845, Tasmama consisted of 27 parishes, most of which conducted well-attended Sunday-schools and . day-schools. In 184'6 Tasmania saw the setting up of two grammar schools and a college -Launcesto'n Church Grammar School , the Hutchins' School ,.. Hobart, . and Chnst's College, whose first warden, Rev. J. P. Gell, was appomted on the recom-

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