Thanks Kathy Denise ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathy Myles" <kmyles@alphalink.com.au> To: <AUS-VIC-NE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 9:03 PM Subject: Re: [AVNE] Gemmell > Denise > It would probably be the Melbourne one as from below it opened it 1851. > > Kathy > > Scotch College at Spring Street > Scotch College is the oldest school in Victoria. Its foundation was due to > the initiative of the Reverend James Forbes, who was the first settled > minister of the Presbyterian Church in the State. It is 'the outcome of the > old Scottish ideal of education', in which Church and School were > inextricably connected. It opened on 1851 under the name of the Melbourne > Academy in a small house in Spring Street, with Mr. Robert Lawson, a Scot > from Edinburgh University, as the first Principal. > Later moved to Hathorn where it still is today. >