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‘A Strange Compound of Good and Ill’: Laurence Hynes Halloran

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The school established in Sydney by Laurence Hynes Halloran DD in 1819, and successfully run by him until 1825, was probably the first one formed in New South Wales for classical and mathematical studies.1 He called it ‘Sidney Grammar-School’2 and it can be regarded as the progenitor of the present school of that name which dates from 1857. In curriculum, however, it would have differed markedly from the later school, for Halloran modelled it upon the academy he ran in Exeter thirty years earlier, which catered primarily for the commercial classes.

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Grose, K. (1991). ‘A Strange Compound of Good and Ill’: Laurence Hynes Halloran. In: Reece, B. (eds) Exiles from Erin. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21557-7_5

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