Objects of Substance- The Mackinlay Honour Board

Other Awards

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• Queensland University Scholarships (2 panels) • Honours: Churchill Fellowships, Fellow of the Royal Society and Rhodes Scholars • Mackinlay Scholarships (2 panels)

The Mary Mackinlay Honour Board with ten panels.

Mary Mackinlay was obviously a strong, independent woman who believed in the importance of women’s education. Her personal battle to be educated as a mature-aged student, to journey across the world to realise her ambitions, and to strengthen “an experiment” to the point it became viable points to an inspired and inspiring educator. The Mackinlay Honour Board is a lasting and fitting tribute to a woman who gave honourable and diligent service to furthering the education of the young women of Girls Grammar, who deserved to, as the writer of the article in The Week on 24 December 1881, had suggested, “look back with pleasure and pride in her leadership of the School”.

Jenny Davis Sesquicentenary Research Officer