50 PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS FOR SECONDARY EDUCATION, 



"plans for the promotion of a public Grammar School in 

 "Hobart Town have heretofore been transient and nugatory 

 ''owing to the difficulties of satisfying all parties. Tliis 

 "School has the College to fall back upon, and may, there- 

 "fore, aim with every prospect of success at the character 

 "of a permanent public institution conducted upon known 

 "and approved jorinciples.' 



Subsequently, the full text of Dr. Lillie's Memorial 

 came under the notice of Gell, and he furnished His Ex- 

 cellency with further remarks thereon, to be transmitted 

 tj the Secretary of State. In such Comments he states: — 

 "It was all along understood that after Christ's College 

 "had been once established the Hutchins School was to be 

 "our next concern," and also called attention that it was 

 jiHoposed to utilise Lady Franklin's Gift of the Ancanthe 

 Estate in connexion with the Hutchins School. 



This later intention is also referred to in a Prospectus 

 asking for Subscriptions to the Hutchins School, issued 

 about this period. 



The connexion, therefore, seems to have been an in- 

 tention to found the College and the Schools as allied 

 Institutions — part of one combined schemei — after the plan 

 of Eton and Winchester referred to above, but with al- 

 terations due to the state of affairs in the Colony. The 

 Bishop for the time being was to be the Visitor of all 

 three, and, as such, to represent the Founders. Christ's 

 College was the chief Institution, with the two Schools m 

 close connexion. Gell had recommended previously in 

 connexion with Queen's School that the Headmaster 

 should be a, Fellow of the College, and that the Warden of 

 Christ's College should examine and report on the School. 

 This Gell carried out by examining and reporting on the 

 Schools in the two years he was Warden (Gell's letter , 

 4/9/47), no doiib't following the example of the visitation 

 at Winchester by the Warden and Fellows of New Col- 

 lege, whilst the Headmasters of the two Schools are> given 

 amongst the list of the Present Society of Christ's College. 

 (Wood's Royal Southern Kalendar, 1850.) (See also 

 Prospectus of Christ's College, 1848.) The Schools, how- 

 ever, were not to be mere institutions under Christ's Cbl- 

 lege, but the Headmaster had the status of being respon- 

 sible to the Bishop alone. The Warden of Christ's Col- 

 lege, therefore, would have no control over the Headmaster 

 of the School, and would have tc report the result of his 

 examination to the Bishop. The intention was that the 

 Schools should be as nearly as possible conducted in the 

 sanie manner ast English Public Schools. 



