Adelaide Educational Institution

Adelaide Educational Institution was a privately run academy for boys in Adelaide founded in 1852 by John L. Young[1][2] and closed when he retired in 1880. "He avoided rote learning, punishment and religious instruction, but taught moral philosophy, physiology, political economy and mechanical drawing ... (and) surveying on field trips".[3]

History

In 1852 Young opened a school with two, then three pupils (Hubert Giles,[4] Caleb Peacock and John Partridge) in the "Peacock Chapel"[5] lent by Mr Peacock[4] in the rear of the (Congregational) Ebenezer Chapel in Ebenezer Place,[3] off the east end of Rundle Street. The two grew to seventeen at years end.[6] and he was advertising for evening classes in Geometry and Arithmetic, apply between 6 and 7pm at Stephens Place,[7] off the west end of Rundle Street. Fees for day students were 10 guineas (₤10/10/-) per annum, (payable quarterly in advance). Facilities were available for boarding.[8] His residence was also located on Stephens Place.[9] By December 1855 the school had 107 students,[6] perhaps close to 200 in 1857,[4] 130 in 1862,[10] 133 in 1868.

Next venue was the Congregational chapel in Freeman Street (now that section of Gawler Place between Pirie and Flinders Streets).[11]

In 1872 new premises were built at Parkside in Young Street, which had been named after the headmaster.[2]

"Many of Young's pupils later attained positions of public and professional importance in the province and attested the value of the inspiration he had given. Ex-scholars included Caleb Peacock, William Bickford, Walter Samson, (Herschel) Babbage, Elias Solomon, W. P. Auld and Charles Kingston, premier and federationist. An Old Scholars' Association was formed and when the school closed in 1880 on Young's retirement, he was presented with 336 gold sovereigns and many grateful testimonials to his genial, sympathetic counselling."[2]

"He is commemorated by scholarships at the University of Adelaide for research in political economy and for general research."[2]

Education in Early South Australia

(Taken from Geoffrey H. Manning's A Colonial Experience)[12]

From a welter of amateur establishments emerged two institutions, one of which did noble service to two generations, the other the germ of one of the colony's greatest denominational schools today. The first was John Lorenzo Young's Adelaide Educational Institute, which in its peregrinations from a room at the rear of Ebenezer Chapel (now built over by the East End Market), by way of Stephens Place and Gawler Place, to a final home at Young Street, Parkside, educated 1,500 young South Australians many of later distinction – Caleb Peacock, Adelaide's first native-born Mayor, Charles Cameron Kingston, the dominating figure on the colony's political horizon and Joseph Verco, doyen of our medical fraternity. The other institution was the crib in which St Peter's College was created.

John L Young

John Lorenzo Young ca. 1861
In the 1860s, with his brother Oliver, he founded the Adelaide Educational Institution which grew into the largest private independent school in South Australia. In 1872 new premises were built at Parkside in Young Street (named after the schoolmaster). For a photograph of the school, see B 1843.
ca. 1870

John Lorenzo Young (30 May 1826, London – 26 July 1881, at sea) was born in London, the son of John Tonkin Young (1802?–10 April 1882), a builder from Veryan, Cornwall.[13][14][15]

He was educated at the Communal College of Boulogne, under Professor Opel at Wiesbaden, in 1842 at the Civil Engineering College in Putney, and at King's College London from 1843 to 1845, where John Howard Clark (later Sir John), editor of The Register and who conducted its "Geoffry Crabthorn" column, was a fellow student.[14] Another reference says this fellow-student was Sidney Clark.[16] He worked in Cornwall on railway and mining construction then left for Adelaide in 1850.[3] on the ship "Panama", arriving on 31 October 1850. He joined the rush to the Victorian goldfields but soon returned.[14]

In 1851 he became second master at South Australian High School,[17] but the venture failed by the end of the year. Headmaster Charles Gregory Feinaigle (1817? – 10 March 1880), before 1860 spelled "Feinagle", opened a private academy at his residence "Brandon" on Unley Road, but was soon in Victoria, in a wide variety of vocations. He remained friends with J. L. Young: together they founded the Philosophical Society on January 1853 (perhaps with W. W. R. Whitridge (died 28 May 1861) of The Register[16]), and he maintained active membership after he left Adelaide.[18]

After the South Australian High School folded he was persuaded in 1852 to open his own school at the rear of the old chapel in Ebenezer Street off Rundle Street East, and soon moved to larger premises in Stephens Place.[14][19] His brother, Oliver Young, held classes for some time,[20] (and acted headmaster in 1860 while J. L. Young was away on recuperation leave) but returned to Cornwall in 1866.[21] Oliver never married.[22]

On 29 October 1855, John married Martha Paynter Young. ("Young" was also her maiden name)[23]

Their first son Arago was born early in 1857 but died at Glenelg on 7 March 1859.[24]
A son was born at their home in North Terrace on 28 February 1858[25] This may have been Algernon Sidney Young, in 1881 cited as his eldest son.[16]
Son John Hampden was born at North Terrace on 26 August 1859[26] but died 18 August 1861
A daughter was born at Parkside 29 April 1861.[27] and may be the daughter Bertha who died 15 August 1915.[28]
A daughter was born at Parkside 8 February 1863[29]
A daughter was born at Parkside 30 December 1864[30]
Son A. Lincoln was born around 1866 and died 21 August 1917 aged 51[31]
Daughter Emily was born at Parkside on 26 March 1870[32] and died 25 September 1875
Son Roland was born at Parkside on 17 March 1873[33] and died 17 June 1925[34]

In 1861 he built the large two-storey "Young House" in Parkside, which was used both as his private residence and as a student boarding house. He then commissioned architects Wright and Hamilton to design and oversee building of a schoolhouse next door. (Edmund Wright had designed many prominent Adelaide buildings including the Town Hall).[35] In 1871 he was able to relinquish the Freeman Street premises.

John retired in 1880 and closed the school, with the intention of joining his wife and large family who were visiting brother Oliver and his father in Veryan, in Cornwall. On his retirement, a testimonial was held 17 December 1880 by his old scholars, and he was presentated with a purse of sovereigns.[36] His 16-room residence, with schoolhouse and various other houses on Young Street,[37] after several auction attempts in February 1881, was eventually purchased by Alfred Allen Simpson (who coincidently had also purchased the Gawler Place school property).[11] The two Parkside buildings, which may still be seen at 61-71 Young Street, were sold by Alfred A., Fred N. and Violet Laura Simpson to Mr. C. O. A. Lapidge in 1922.[35]

He embarked on the steamer John Elder in 1881 to visit England (where his father was still living), his family having preceded him, but died on 26 July 1881 while crossing the Red Sea. He was buried at sea.[14] Martha returned to Adelaide, at first living in Kent Town then settled in Glenelg.[38] She died 6 April 1887 aged 57.[39]

Fred W. Sims, formerly Deputy Registrar of Companies in the Supreme Court, wrote in The Advertiser: I could tell you quite a lot about John L. Young's school— 'dear old Johnny', as we used to call him ... Mr. Young possessed, among his other fine qualities, the saving grace of humor. It is recorded that his first two pupils were Caleb Peacock and John Partridge. He remarked at the time that, whether be met with success or not as a schoolmaster, he would anyway die "game".[40]

Classes and Curriculum

In its first stage of the school's history, Junior (or Third) Class consisted of boys from 7 to 10 years, Science being a chief subject with (although a non-sectarian school) a little religious insight. No homework was set. Second class homework was encouraged and after five hours of schoolwork the more industrious students would voluntarily turn in up to four long essays a week. In Senior or First class subjects covered included political economy, history, .[41]

Masters

Other academics at the Institution included:

A lawyer arrived from England ca. 1857, based in Kapunda
Brother of Charles Edwin Palmer (Glenelg Congregational minister)
Wrote newspaper articles as "Templar"
Classics master 1861 [49]
Educated at universities of Leipzig and "Greisewalde" (perhaps Greifswald).[50]
He arrived in Adelaide on the "Pauline" from Bremen on 9 December 1849.
In 1851 he founded a German School in Freeman Street.[51] Teachers at his school included Messrs Hansen, Klette and Nootnagel. He left in 1852.[52]
For several years he was clerk to C. Schilling, landbroker of Gawler Place.[53]
1864 he was with St Peter's College and offering private tuition at his North Terrace (east) home.[54]
1874 he's replaced by Jung at SPC.[55] Then no mention to 1876 when he's advertising for anything anywhere.

Timeline

Old Scholars' Association dinner[61]
First Old Scholars' dinner[63]
Old Scholars' AGM[64]
Old Scholars' dinner[66]
Old Scholars' annual meeting scheduled for 24 June postponed to following week due to poor attendance.[68]
Old Scholars' dinner [69] poor attendance
Function for Eden Herschel Babbage 21 May 1918[75]

Reunions

Around 1912 a group of old scholars felt it appropriate to establish a memorial for J L Young, and from 1912 held a series of annual reunion dinners to raise funds for the memorial. I need to re-read the reunion news clippings and expand this

Notable students

Heroes of the SS Gothenburg wreck
Robert Brazil, John Cleland & James Fitzgerald, 1875.

A remarkable number of Young's alumni became leading figures in Adelaide's businesses and public service. The following is sourced from Old Scholars reunions and other sources e.g. List of mayors and lord mayors of Adelaide

(sort: alphabetic surname)

"and hundreds of others scattered throughout the land".
(Somewhere it says he educated 1,500 young men – in 28 years, that's about 100 per annum (estimated mean 2 years per student), @ 10 guineas per annum.)

Old Scholars Association

(First A.G.M.)[116] held 15 Dec 1863 at Mr. J. L. Young's school room, Stephens-place; Mr. E. Cheetham occupied the chair. Satisfactory reports were received with reference to the success of the association. Annual prize awarded to Edward Neale Wigg. Elected: C. Peacock, President; M. L. Clark, Treasurer; Joseph Coulls, Secretary; and E. Cheetham, Walter Samson, Wm. Bickford, A. K. Whitby, and G. Cottrell.

Prizegivings and Examinations

J. L. Young held twice-yearly public demonstrations, mostly held in White's Rooms which showcased the boys' accomplishments to parents and the public. A report was published as news in the newspapers immediately after, and always in glowing terms, the copy being provided by the school. Any flaws in the operation of the school and the training of eager young minds were only hinted at in retrospect – by pronouncements on the great strides made in the current year.

There were so many other schools that copied his example that the newspapers soon recognised these reports for what they were – advertisements – and charged by the column-inch. No longer were the speeches by the headmaster and the visiting dignitary quoted verbatim and, sadly for the historian, the only students named were the recipients of prizes.

Sports

The school fielded a (soccer) football team and two cricket teams.

The first school Sports Day was held in November 1874. Prizes included silver pencil cases and gold shirt studs.[117]

Other Adelaide private schools of the period

This list is by no means exhaustive. Many schools changed location, identity and management. And there were many women of culture and attainment, particularly widows (such as Caroline Carleton), who subsisted on their earnings as tutors.

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