List of Australian Presbyterians explained

The following are notable Australian Presbyterians:

• Arthur Aspinall – co-founder and first principal of The Scots College, Bellevue Hill, Sydney; Congregational and Presbyterian minister; Joint founder of the Historical Society of New South Wales
• Jessie Aspinall – first female junior medical resident at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital^[1]
• Peter Cameron – principal of St Andrew's College; Minister convicted by the Presbyterian Church of Australia of heresy^[2]
• Arthur Dean (judge)
• John Ferguson – Presbyterian minister; acting principal of St Andrew's Theological College; senior chaplain and chairman of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney Council^[3]
• John Flynn – founder of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia and the Australian Inland Mission
• James Forbes – minister of the Free Presbyterian Church of Victoria and founder of the Melbourne Academy, a college for boys (later Scotch College).
• Friedrich Hagenauer – Presbyterian minister; founder of Ramahyuck Mission to house the members of the Ganai tribe who survived attacks in west and central Gippsland
• Allan Harman – principal of the Presbyterian Theological College
• Rev. Dr Andrew Harper – Biblical scholar and teacher
• Matthew Guy – Victorian Leader of the Opposition
• Adrian Kebbe – former weightlifter
• John Dunmore Lang (1799–1878) – Presbyterian minister, writer, politician and activist
• Dr. John Marden – first Headmaster of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney; Pioneer of women's education; Presbyterian elder^[4]
• John McGarvie – Presbyterian minister and writer
• William McIntyre – first Gaelic-speaking minister in Australia; educator
• Dr Ewen Neil McQueen – second headmaster of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney; Prominent educational innovator; Scientist; Psychologist; General Practitioner^[5]
• Sir Robert Menzies – Australian prime minister
• Reverend William Miller – minister of the Free Presbyterian Church of Victoria
• David Charles Mitchell - lawyer, minister and solicitor-general of Lesotho.
• Sibyl Enid Vera Munro Morrison – first female barrister in New South Wales^[6]
• William Ridley – English Presbyterian missionary who studied Australian Aboriginal languages
• Robert Steel – 19th-century Scottish/Australian minister and religious author
• Joan Sutherland – operatic soprano (Australian by birth; parents were of Scottish Presbyterian descent)
• Reverend F. R. M. Wilson – early pioneer lichenologist and minister
• Bruce W. Winter – principal of Queensland Theological College

See also

• Presbyterian Church of Australia

External links

• Official website of the Presbyterian Church of Australia
• The Presbyterian Church of Australia in New South Wales
• The Presbyterian Church of Queensland
• The Presbyterian Church of Victoria

Notes and References

1. Book: Durie, E. Beatrix. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070122b.htm. Aspinall, Jessie Strahorn (1880–1953). 2008-01-17. Jessie Strahorn Aspinall (1880–1953) . 1979. Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. 118.
2. News: Peter. Cameron . The making of a heretic. Opinion-Analysis. The Age. Melbourne. 14. 1993-07-08. 2008-02-26.
3. Encyclopedia: Dougan. Alan. Australian Dictionary of Biography. Ferguson, John (1852–1925) . John Ferguson (1852–1925). 2008-02-26. Online. 1981. Melbourne University Press. 8. Melbourne. 486–487.
4. Encyclopedia: Dougan. Alan . Australian Dictionary of Biography. Marden, John (1855–1924). John Marden (1855–1924) . 2007-10-09. 1986. Melbourne University Press. 10. Melbourne, Vic.. 407–408.
5. Book: McFarlane, John . The Golden Hope: Presbyterian Ladies' College, 1888–1988 . P.L.C Council, Presbyterian Ladies' College Sydney, (Croydon) . 1988 . 0-9597340-1-5.
6. Book: O'Brien, Joan M. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100580b.htm. Morrison, Sibyl Enid Vera Munro (1895–1961). 2007-08-01. Sibyl Enid Morrison (1895–1961) . 1986. Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. 596.