The discovery of schoolboy signatures - hidden under peeling wallpaper in an old Adelaide schoolhouse for 130 years - has led to this documentary history of John Lorenzo Young's school and its 1600 students, among them the leading lights of the colony and many still prominent in South Australian business and academic life today. John Lorenzo Young, the dissenting headmaster, was a brilliant and creative teacher, a graduate in the 'sciences of the enlightenment' from King's College London. He taught these new sciences to the sons of Adelaide's dissenting majority from 1852-1880, just 16 years after settlement.
Adelaide's Dissenting Headmaster includes 230 biographies of Young's stellar and stalwart students, teachers and mentors, a school register, original photographs, and maps locating the six sites of the school in the city and at Parkside. Together they illuminate Adelaide's early character as it moved from fish oil to gas lamps to electricity, engineered and built by Young's schoolboys.
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Diana Chessell's fascination with cross-cultural history and education reflects her 27 years lecturing and research at the University of South Australia and the Australian National University. Her extensive historical field research has taken her to Italy and Greece and for Mr Young, to Cornwall and Scotland and inside the archives of Adelaide, 'city of dissenting churches'.
ISBN 9781743052402
CATEGORY Biography/Autobiography/True Stories
PAGE COUNT 360
DIMENSIONS 234 x 160 mm
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'Somehow Adelaide's particularly remarkable early development with reformist zeal, proud independence and dissenting spirit has become a victim of collective civic amnesia. We should all be grateful that with meticulous research, Diana Chessell has unravelled the lineages and linkages of the intellectual forces running through the story of our community.' - Jane Lomax-Smith, former Lord Mayor of Adelaide
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'Adelaide's Dissenting Headmaster reveals the intriguing educational and social stories of early free-thinking South Australians. This book is an important reference on the unique formation of the colony of South Australia.' - William F. Bickford, great-grandson of William Bickford (1841-1916), a student at Mr Young's
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'We congratulate Diana Chessell on her extensive historical research on Young's school, which is an integral part of the history of Prince Alfred College.' - Kevin Tutt, Headmaster, Prince Alfred College
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'For anyone interested in Adelaide history, this book is a must for its detail of life at the beginning of its economic, cultural and social development.' - Ann Griffin, ReadPlus and Opinion
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'A scholarly work … If you have an interest in early South Australian history and/or the development of modern secondary education you will find this book rewarding.' - GP, ARPA News