List of Australian Presbyterians

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The following are notable Australian Presbyterians:

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Presbyterian Theological College

The Presbyterian Theological College (PTC) is the theological college of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria. It provides theological education for candidates for the ministry of the Presbyterian Church of Australia, as well as for members of other Christian churches. It is an approved teaching institution of the Australian College of Theology and is based in the Melbourne suburb of Box Hill.

Trinity College, Melbourne

Trinity College is the oldest residential college of the University of Melbourne, the first university in the colony of Victoria, Australia. The college was opened in 1872 on a site granted to the Church of England by the government of Victoria. In addition to its resident community of 380 students, mostly attending the University of Melbourne, Trinity's programs includes the Trinity College Theological School, an Anglican training college that is a constituent college of the University of Divinity; and the Pathways School, which runs Trinity College Foundation Studies, preparing international students for admission to the University of Melbourne and other Australian tertiary institutions, as well as summer and winter schools for young leaders and other short courses.

Ormond College

Ormond College is the largest of the residential colleges of the University of Melbourne located in the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is home to around 350 undergraduates, 90 graduates and 35 professorial and academic residents.

Presbyterian Church of Australia

The Presbyterian Church of Australia (PCA) is the largest Presbyterian denomination in Australia.

Scotch College, Melbourne Independent, day and boarding school in Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia

Scotch College is an independent Presbyterian day and boarding school for boys, located in Hawthorn, an inner-eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Enid Derham Australian poet and academic

Enid Derham was an Australian poet and academic.

Geelong College School in Newtown, Victoria, Australia

The Geelong College is an Australian independent and co-educational day and boarding school located in Newtown, an inner-western suburb of Geelong, Victoria.

Presbyterian Ladies College, Perth Independent, day and boarding school in Peppermint Grove, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

The Presbyterian Ladies' College, is an independent, day and boarding school predominantly for girls, situated in Peppermint Grove, a western suburb of Perth, Western Australia.

Presbyterian Ladies College, Melbourne School in Burwood, Victoria, Australia

Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne (PLC), is an independent, private, Presbyterian, day and boarding school for girls, located in Burwood, an eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Presbyterian Ladies College, Sydney School in Australia

The Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney is an independent Presbyterian single-sex early learning, primary and secondary day and boarding school for girls, located in Croydon, an inner-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The school has a non-selective enrolment policy for all years except Year 11, and caters for approximately 1,250 girls from age four to age eighteen, including 65 boarders. Students attend PLC from all regions of the greater metropolitan area, New South Wales, and overseas.

John Ferguson was a Scottish-born Australian Presbyterian minister.

Andrew Harper

Andrew Harper was a Scottish–Australian biblical scholar, teacher, and school principal.

The Reverend Arthur "Ashworth" Aspinall was a co-founder and the first Principal of The Scots College, Bellevue Hill, Sydney, Australia. He was a Congregational and Presbyterian Minister, and a joint founder of the Historical Society of New South Wales. A portrait of Arthur Aspinall is found in Cameron's Centenary History, p320, Plate 99.

John Marden

John Marden was an Australian headmaster, pioneer of women's education, and Presbyterian elder.

Sibyl Morrison Australian barrister

Sibyl Enid Vera Munro Morrison was the first female barrister in New South Wales, Australia. She graduated LL.B from the University of Sydney's law school in 1924.

Ewen Neil McQueen

Ewen Neil McQueen was an Australian headmaster, prominent educational innovator, scientist, psychologist and General Practitioner. He was most often known as Neil McQueen or E. Neil McQueen.

Jessie Strahorn Aspinall was the first female junior medical resident at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, Sydney. Her four brothers were also doctors.

Robert Steel was a Presbyterian minister in colonial Australia.

References

  1. Durie, E. Beatrix (1979). "Aspinall, Jessie Strahorn (1880 – 1953)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. p. 118. Retrieved 17 January 2008.
  2. Cameron, Peter (8 July 1993). "The making of a heretic". Opinion-Analysis. Melbourne: The Age. p. 14. Retrieved 26 February 2008.
  3. Dougan, Alan (1981). "Ferguson, John (1852 – 1925)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 8 (Online ed.). Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. pp. 486–487. Retrieved 26 February 2008.
  4. Dougan, Alan (1986). "Marden, John (1855 – 1924)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 10. Melbourne, Vic.: Melbourne University Press. pp. 407–408. Retrieved 9 October 2007.
  5. McFarlane, John (1988). The Golden Hope: Presbyterian Ladies' College, 1888–1988. P.L.C Council, Presbyterian Ladies' College Sydney, (Croydon). ISBN   0-9597340-1-5.
  6. O'Brien, Joan M (1986). "Morrison, Sibyl Enid Vera Munro (1895 – 1961)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. p. 596. Retrieved 1 August 2007.
  7. Dougan, Alan. "Steel, Robert (1827–1893)". Australian Dictionary of Biography . Melbourne University Press. ISSN   1833-7538 . Retrieved 10 September 2013 via National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.