Brian William Hone

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Sir Brian William Hone MA FACE OBE, (1907-1978) was a headmaster and, in his youth, an able cricket player.

Born 1 July 1907 at Semaphore, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, he was educated at Prince Alfred College and the University of Adelaide (B.A. Hons, 1928) where won Blues in cricket, football and tennis. During the 1929-30 cricket season he opened the batting for South Australia, scoring a century against Victoria and averaging nearly 50. In 1930 he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to New College, Oxford (B.A., 1932; M.A., 1938), and achieved honours in English. (C. S. Lewis was his tutor). He won Blues in cricket and tennis.^[1]

From 1933 to 1939, Hone taught at Marlborough College, Wiltshire, and was made head of the new department of English. Whilst in England he wrote Cricket Practice and Tactics, (London, 1937).

1940-1950 Headmaster, Cranbrook School Sydney, New South Wales, Australia^[2]^[3]

1951-1970 Headmaster, Melbourne Grammar School, Victoria, Australia^[4]

1973-1974 Deputy Chancellor, Monash University^[5]

He died in Paris on 28 May 1978. His remains lie near the Norfolk Island pine planted in Dr J E Bromby's^[6] honour in the grounds of Melbourne Grammar School.

[edit] Selected Bibliography

R. M. Jukes, Liber Melburniensis, 4th edn, Melbourne Church of England Grammar School (Melbourne, 1965).
J. W. Hogg, Our Proper Concerns (Sydney, 1986).
C. E. Moorhouse, Sir Brian Hone, Unicorn, Vol 14 No 1, February 1988
C. E. Moorhouse, Challenge and Response (Melbourne, 1989);