;J8 PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS FOR SECONDARY EDUCATION, 



conducting a School, and to be also available for other 

 Church meetings. 



This, then, was the position when the Government 

 proposals for higher education in the Country were 

 publicly abandoned. This occurred even before Sir John 

 Franklin had left the Colony, as the following extract 

 from his Narrative, p. 78, shows: — "I may be excused, 

 perhaps, for adding, that Lady Franklin's intention of 

 contributing to the endowment of the College gave her 

 a personal concern in its success. This intention was 

 scarcely known to any but her own family ; but the last 

 act of Lady Franklin in Van Diemen's Land was> to' make 

 over 400 acres of land which she had purchased, in the 

 neighbourhood of Hobart Town, with a small museum 

 erected on it, into the hands of trustees for the benefit 

 of a future College. The endowment was not made to 

 the favovirite foundation at New Norfolk, for over this 

 the shadows of annihilation had already fallen, but to 

 any Collegiate institution whatever which might be found- 

 ed in Van Diemens Land with the approbation 

 of the Bishop of the diocese for twenty years to come ; 

 and, in default of any such foundation at the end of that 

 period, to the improvement of the existing schools of the 

 colony at the discretion of the Bishop." 



The deeds of this property, as well as the property 

 itself, are now in the control of the Trustees of Christ' a 

 College, and are in the terms quoted by Sir John Frank- 

 lin. In 1847 it was arranged that this bequest was to be 

 iitilised in favour of the Hutchins School to found a 

 Museum and Library on the premises, but this portion 

 of the scheme fell through, and the contents of the 

 Museum were eventually transferred to the T'asmanian 

 Museum. 



Mr. Cell was ordained a Minister of the Church of 

 England, and in 1844 was appointed to the charge of St 

 John's Parish, Hobart. His colleague in the Queen's 

 School, J. R. Buckland, was also ordained in 1845, and 

 temporarily took charge of the Parish of Richmond, during 

 the absence of the Rector. 



SECOND SCHEME. 



Christ's CoUef/e, the Hntrliins School, and the Lanncesfon 



Church Grammar School. 



The first scheme for the establishment of Christ'? 

 College, with its annexed Grammar School, the Queen's 

 School, incorporated with it, after the model of King's 

 College, Cambridge, with Eton, or New College, Oxford, 

 with Winchester, may be considered by this time to have 



