Objects of Substance- 1882 Board of Trustees

1883 James Robert Dickson, 13 th Premier of Queensland.

At the Town Hall meeting, Mr James R. Dickson, a subscriber and a forward-thinking gentleman whose seven daughters i all attended Girls Grammar, said that he had spoken to a number of subscribers who felt that “fresh blood should be introduced”. He thought that, if the two schools were managed by the same trustees, the interest of one school would be subordinated to the interest of the other. But the Chief Justice, Sir Charles Lilley, advised that it might at first be detrimental to the girls’ school if it was completely separated. However, if the subscribers agreed, they should work together until the new School building had been erected and the new body of trustees had “got properly at work” (‘Girls’ Grammar School”, 29 th June 1882, Telegraph, p. 2). Thus, he recommended that the subscribers leave the new Board in the hands of the old trustees for three years, the period for which they would be elected, as he believed this plan would promote the best interests of the girls’ school. At this meeting Sir Charles Lilley, Sir Samuel Walker Griffith, and Mr Lewis A. Bernays were voted onto the new Board by the subscribers.

The 1882 Board of Trustees: Sir Charles Lilley (Chair), Sir Samuel Griffith (Vice chair) and Lewis Bernays.