Record ID:
36434683 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 2002132601
Heading:
Birth:
  • 18480603
  • Dublin (Ireland)
  • 1869 -
Death:
  • 19340806
  • Melbourne (Vic.)
  • 1869 -
Associated with:
  • Australia Melbourne (Vic.) 1869 -
Lived/located in:
  • 1869 -
Occupations:
  • Educators Classicists
Used for:
  • Leeper, Alex, 1848-1934
Notes:
  • The health biographies of Alexander Leeper, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Fanny Stevenson, c2001 t.p. (Alexander Leeper) p. 11 (b. Ireland in 1848, moved to Australia in 1869, d. 1934; classical scholar & leading churchman, instrumental in developing Trinity College, first of the colleges affiliated with Melbourne Univ.; one of Victoria's great men)
  • Australian Dictionary of Biography (online) viewed 15 Dec 2020: (Alexander Leeper (1848-1934), educationist and publicist, founder of the collegiate system in the University of Melbourne, was born on 3 June 1848 in Dublin. He studied in Dublin and Oxford. After first visting Australia in 1871, he returned to settle in 1874 and accepted a position at Melbourne Church of England Grammar School; in 1876 he was appointed principal (later warden) of Trinity College, the first affiliated college of the University of Melbourne. He was active in establishing the Trinity College Hostel for women students (later Janet Clarke Hall), and incurred much dissention over that and over his general style of management; but by 1900 things had settled. In politics he was thoroughly imperial, opposed Irish independence, and clashed with Archbishop Mannix over constriction in 1917. he was a lay canon of St. Paul's Cathedral and member of synod. He retired from Trinity in 1918 and turned his interest to the Public Library, Museums and National Gallery of Victoria. He died at home in Suth Yarra on 6 August 1944.) https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/leeper-alexander-7154
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)126054
  • 000001442198
  • abv03713910
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL eng rda DNLM VJTL
Authentication code:
  • anuc