List of Ipswich Grammar School Old Boys

Last updated November 25, 2024

Alumni of Ipswich Grammar School in Ipswich, Queensland, Australia are known as 'Old Boys' and automatically gain membership into the schools alumni association, the IGS Old Boys Association (IGSOBA). Established in 1907, IGSOBA organises regular reunions and occasional sporting competitions.^[1]

Academic

Alfred Paxton Backhouse – judge and Deputy-Chancellor of Sydney University, son of the architect, Benjamin Backhouse who designed some of the school buildings
Walter Heywood Bryan – Professor of Geology, University of Queensland and first Doctor of Science at UQ. (1910)
Frederick William Whitehouse – Associate Professor of Geology at University of Queensland and first person from Queensland to take a PhD at the University of Cambridge. (1918)

Architecture, building and engineering

Dr John Bradfield – Engineer famous for designing the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Story Bridge; Developed the Bradfield Scheme for diverting rivers west of the Great Dividing Range ^[2]

Entertainment, media and the arts

John Birmingham – Author, best known for He Died With A Felafel In His Hand
Charles Chauvel – Pioneer of the Australian film industry; Influential early film director; Credits include Jedda (first colour feature film made in Australia), In The Wake Of The Bounty, 40,000 Horsemen and The Rats Of Tobruk^[2]
Hugh Cornish – television executive^[3]
David McCormack – Lead singer of the band Custard
George Miller – Hollywood director, screenwriter and producer. Credits include Mad Max , Babe , Babe: Pig in the City , Lorenzo's Oil and The Witches of Eastwick
Pacharo Mzembe – Actor, Underbelly: Razor
Vance Palmer – Eminent Australian novelist, dramatist, essayist and critic; the Vance Palmer Literary Prize is presented annually at IGS^[2]
Colin Petersen – Actor, drummer^[4]^[5]
Percy Savage – fashion publicist, designer, artist, raconteur and bon viveur.
Thomas Shapcott – Writer and poet; Former Professor of Creative Writing at University of Adelaide; Current Fellow at the National Library of Australia

Military

Lt. Gen. John Coates AC MBE – Commandant of the Royal Military College, Duntroon; Head of the Australian Defence Staff, Washington and Chief of the General Staff, Australian Army ^[2]
Walde Fisher – Australian Infantry Soldier killed in action in World War I^[6]^[7]
Major Percival Savage DSO^[8] MBE^[9] – Gallipoli veteran, farmer, chairman of the Committee of Direction of Fruit Marketing, Queensland for 30 years.^[10]

National Honours

Manuel Michael Varitimos CBE (Barrister, QC) – awarded the CBE in 2016^[11] for services to the Papua and New Guinean community through the advancement of justice and the rule of law.

Politics, public service and the law

Charles Booker – former member for Wide Bay and Maryborough in the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
Sir Llewellyn Edwards – Former State Liberal Party leader; Deputy Premier and Treasurer of Queensland; Chairman and Chief Executive for World Expo '88; Former Chancellor of the University of Queensland
Sir Harry Gibbs – Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia; Puisne judge of the High Court of Australia ^[2]
Norm Jensen – Member of the First Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly –^[12] 1989 to 1991.
Peter Slipper – Former federal member for the electorate of Fisher and Speaker of the House of Representatives
Thomas Welsby – Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
Jon Krause – Member for Beaudesert in the Queensland Legislative Assembly
Sam O'Connor – Member for Bonney in the Queensland Legislative Assembly
Paul Scarr – Senator for Queensland in the Australian Senate
Garth Hamilton – Member for Groom in the Australian House of Representatives

Medicine and science

Raymond Dart – Anatomist and anthropologist best known for his controversial discovery of the Taung Child, or Australopithecus africanus ^[2]
Major John Lockhart Gibson – One of Queensland's most notable doctors of the early twentieth century^[13]

Sport

Basketball

Matt Hodgson – professional basketball player^[14]

Cricket

Cameron Gannon – cricketer for Queensland
Craig McDermott – Australian Test cricketer^[2]
Francis Ramsay – cricketer for Queensland
Nathan Reardon – cricketer for Queensland
Mark Steketee – cricketer for Queensland
Shane Watson – Australian cricketer^[2]

Rugby League

Kirisome Auva'a – Parramatta Eels
Dud Beattie – Australian Kangaroos
Willie Carne – Brisbane Broncos, Queensland, Australia; also played Rugby Union for the Queensland Reds ^[2]
Johnny Hunt – Australian Kangaroos
Martin Kennedy – Sydney Roosters
Brett Plowman – Brisbane Broncos
Craig Polla-Mounter – Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs
Junior Sau – Newcastle Knights
Lagi Setu – St George-Illawarra Dragons, Brisbane Broncos
Lama Tasi – Sydney Roosters
Kevin Walters – Brisbane Broncos and Australian Kangaroos^[2]
Kerrod Walters – Brisbane Broncos and Australian Kangaroos^[2]
Steven Walters – Canberra Raiders, Queensland State of Origin, Australian Kangaroos
Sam Walker – Sydney Roosters

Rugby Union

Albert Anae – Queensland Reds
Berrick Barnes – Queensland Reds and Wallaby Vice Captain New South Wales Waratahs
Nic Berry – Queensland Reds
Herbert Bullmore – Scotland (also grandfather of Kerry Packer)
Rodney Davies – Queensland Reds #1231, Australia 7s
Eric Francis – Ipswich's first Wallaby #140,^[15] Queensland #347
Tu Tamarua – Played in Europe and represented the Pacific Islanders team
David Wilson – World Cup and Bledisloe winning Wallaby flanker^[2]

Tennis

Roy Emerson – International Tennis Hall of Fame inductee; Former record holder for most Grand Slam men's singles titles^[2]
Robert Smeets – Australian Open Men's Doubles player

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↑ "Birth of Bee Gees beat in Ipswich". Fassifern Guardian. 26 October 2022. Retrieved 24 November 2024.
↑ "Birth of Bee Gees beat in Ipswich". Ipswich Tribune. 26 October 2022. Retrieved 24 November 2024.
↑ "Anzac Day Commemorations" (PDF). The Grammar Word - 1 May 2014. Ipswich Grammar School. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
↑ Church, Sophie. "A soul unsheathed : the life and death of Lieutenant Walde Fisher". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
↑ "Award: Distinguished Service Order". Australian War Museum. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
↑ The Major to retire (Vol. 44 No. 2 ed.), Queensland Fruit and Vegetable News, 10 May 1973, p. 19
↑ 50 years of progress : The Committee of Direction of Fruit Marketing, C.O.D. : 1923-1973. Committee of Direction of Fruit Marketing. 1973. OCLC 221777895.
↑ https://postcourier.com.pg/queens-birthday-png-trio-knighted/
↑ Members of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly, 1989–1991
↑ Wood, Ronald. "Gibson, John Lockhart (1860–1944)". Australian Dictionary of Biography . Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943.
↑ Big Matt is back in town
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[IGSOBA-1] "Old Boys". About OBA. Ipswich Grammar School. 2007. Archived from the original on 29 August 2007. Retrieved 2 November 2007.

[FamousOldBoys-2] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "Distinguished Old Boys". OBA. Ipswich Grammar School. 2007. Archived from the original on 29 August 2007. Retrieved 2 November 2007.

[qhr-3] "Ipswich Grammar School (entry 600601)". Queensland Heritage Register . Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 1 August 2014.

[4] "Birth of Bee Gees beat in Ipswich". Fassifern Guardian. 26 October 2022. Retrieved 24 November 2024.

[5] "Birth of Bee Gees beat in Ipswich". Ipswich Tribune. 26 October 2022. Retrieved 24 November 2024.

[6] "Anzac Day Commemorations" (PDF). The Grammar Word - 1 May 2014. Ipswich Grammar School. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 7 August 2014.

[7] Church, Sophie. "A soul unsheathed : the life and death of Lieutenant Walde Fisher". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 7 August 2014.

[8] "Award: Distinguished Service Order". Australian War Museum. Retrieved 28 February 2015.

[qfvn-9] The Major to retire (Vol. 44 No. 2 ed.), Queensland Fruit and Vegetable News, 10 May 1973, p. 19

[10] 50 years of progress : The Committee of Direction of Fruit Marketing, C.O.D. : 1923-1973. Committee of Direction of Fruit Marketing. 1973. OCLC 221777895.

[11] ttps://postcourier.com.pg/queens-birthday-png-trio-knighted/

[12] Members of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly, 1989–1991

[13] Wood, Ronald. "Gibson, John Lockhart (1860–1944)". Australian Dictionary of Biography . Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943.

[14] Big Matt is back in town

[Wallabies-15] "Who Are Our Wallabies?". Sporting Notes. Ipswich Grammar School. 2007. Archived from the original on 29 August 2007. Retrieved 2 November 2007.

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