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sity. in 1896 and graduated B. A. the following year, having failed it? 

 hfe attempt to complete a combined Arts and Science conrse. 



During 1898 he was a lay reader in the Colar Parish and was 

 ordained deacon in St, Paul's Cathedral. Melbourne, m 1899 (by 

 K^hop Goe tot the Bishop of tiallarat). He then served as curate 

 o( Colac-with Beeac until ordination ru the priesthood by Bishop 

 Giee.il in St. Peter's Church. Ballarat, In 1*KH when he became 

 pnest-in-dtorge &fi Beeac Tu l#)3 he accepted the olTer ot senior 

 curacy at Tamworth, N.S.W., undfr the. late Archdeacon T K. 

 Abbott, and rhe next year WS5 mamed by Archdeacon Abbott to 

 Florence Mabel Dowe, eldwt daughter of Richard Dowe — a solicitor 

 pj lamworth. 



Subsequent appointments were as vicar of: Warialda, NSW. 

 (a parish ranging over about 7,000 square miles of mountainous 

 country toward rhe Queensland border) from 1904.6;. Yea, Vic, 

 where he went because of bis father's indirfere.nt health (1906-5) ; 

 Copmanhur^t. N.S W. (1908-1 1 ), and Banana ( 1911-14 Wu^ani 

 rm the mugged uorth-eastern tablelands ot New South Wale*. 



At the beginning ot World War I he was appointed A.ssistanr- 

 Seeretary. and later Secretary, to the Australian Board of Missions, 

 travelling through many pans of New South Wales. Victoria ynd 

 Tasmania irom 1914 to 1920. fn the laitci year be acted a> locmn- 

 tenens at Holy Trinity in Hobart, Tas., and was thereafter rector ol 

 St- Aidant, Launceston (1921-22). 



In 1923 he returned to New* South Wales, occupying in turn the 

 rectories ot "Bulladelah (1923-24), Paterson (1924 30) ;md St 

 Mary's Church at We*lon (Jan. 1930— May 19.12). The last two 

 were hard depression years, work was exacting and he let t Weston 

 ro take three months" rest at Cnlluroy, following medical advice 

 September 1932 found him at Ptlbga, of which he wrote. 4 *a aiorc 

 dismal, drought-stricken landscape would not be easily- found." Then 

 followed temporary work at Hast Maitland (Feb.- Apr. 1933), after 

 which Rupp resumed his duties as rector, hrst at Woy Woy ( 1933- 

 36) and then at Raymond Terrace (1936 39), In May 1939 he re- 

 tired from the ministry on a pension and lived at Northbridge, 

 enjoying "one of the loveliest views in Sydney' 1 . After having moved 

 \q the re tghboming' iubnrb nl Willonghby in October 1951. lie 

 suffered a deterioration in health, and lor the last two years he was 

 chronically ill fur weeks at a rime with cardiac asthma ; he died nn 

 September 2 last his wife having predeceased him by nnly lour 

 months. 



While at Pater^uu, Rupp organized. * "restoration" of the old 

 church in memory -of its first incumbent, the Rev. John Jennings 

 Smith who had taught Queen Victoria before she came to the throne. 

 In the course, of these proceedings a Queensland grandson of 

 Jennings Scnwft offered a stained-glass window with the Jennings 

 Sujiih oxu-of-arim, beautifully coloured; it liad belonged to the 



