56 PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS FOR SECONDARY EDUCATION, 



of £570 (being the surjDlus over and above the £2,000 

 guaranteed by the College Trustees) out of this money, and 

 to spend the reraainder in additions and improvements to 

 the Hutching School Buildings. It appears, therefore, 

 that in addition to the special subscriptions for tlie 

 Hutchins School, the sum of £476 16s. Gd. was provided 

 out of the general fund of the College scheme, and the 

 balance of thb exjjenditurt obtained from the New- 

 castle Scholarship Fund. The School was oj)ened with 

 the following 9 pupils: — Charles Greig, George Wm. Sec- 

 combe, George Meredith Bell, Hay Macdowell, Swanston 

 May Macdowell, Francis Hudspeth, Sigismund Parramore, 

 Robert Brock, Alfred Nathaniel Mason, and Charles 

 Baudinet. Of these Francis Hudspeth was the first 

 boarder, the first open "scholar," and the first graduate. 



By the end of the year the members had increased to 

 22. At the end of 1847, after the School's annual ex- 

 amination by the Warden of Christs College, with the 

 assistance of his staff, he reported a*; follows :— '"This 

 'School is successfully surmounting the difficulties of the 

 'first beginning, ancl its members are gradually on the 

 'advance in proportion as the soundness of the system is 

 'becoming more improved and known. The new build- 

 'ing is in active progress, the plans are worthy of the 

 'object, so that when completed the School-house will 

 'form one of the handsomest ornaments of the town. Class 

 'List. Hudspeth, Dixon maj., Hampton, 28 boys." 



From this onwards the School rapidly rose in num- 

 bers. Captain H. Butler Stoney, in "A Year in Tas- 

 mania, " mentions that in 1854 the numbers had reached 

 120. The School, under the Headmastership of the Rev. 

 J. R. Buckland, established a reputation which extended 

 far beyond the limits of this State. 



The Lain^cexfan Church Grammar School. 



We have already referred to the subscriptions in aid 

 of the founding of this School jorior to the arrival of 

 Bishop Nixon, and to the setting ajoart by the Crown of 

 a site for the School. This Institution has the honour of 

 being the oldest part of the College scheme, and the firsit 

 permanent public educational establishment in this State. 

 Not only did the first attempt to found the School take 

 precedence of the collection for the Hutchins School, but 

 the School itself can claim to be the first portion of the 

 scheme to be in active operation. The "Courier," in its 

 issue of the 9th May, 1846, reports that Mr. H. P. Kane 

 had been appointed Headmaster of the School, having 

 been nominated to that position by the Bishop at a meet- 

 ing of the Trustees on the 6th instant, and that the School 



