List of Old Boys of Shore
This is a list of former students of the Anglican Church school, the Sydney Church of England Grammar School (also known as Shore School) in North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Business
- Tim Bristow - private eye, convicted criminal, corporate 'fixer', bouncer, rugby player[1]
- Roger Corbett - board member of Reserve Bank of Australia (for a term of five years, from 2 December 2005); board member of Wal-Mart (2006-); CEO of Woolworths Limited (1999–2006)
Entertainment, media, and the arts
- Peter Berner - comedian
- Terence Clarke AM - composer, director, teacher
- Philip Cox AO - architect
- Errol Flynn - Hollywood actor known for swashbuckling roles and legendary womanising[2]
- Tim Freedman - musician, lead singer and songwriter for The Whitlams
- Frank Hinder - artist
- Eric Campbell - ABC foreign correspondent, author of 'Absurdistan', 'Silly Isles'[3]
- Geoffrey Lehmann - poet, children's writer, lawyer
- David Marr - biographer of Patrick White and Garfield Barwick, broadcast journalist, and columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald
- Morgan Mellish - award-winning Australian Financial Review journalist, killed in the Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 air accident in 2007[4]
- Jim Moginie - musician with Midnight Oil
- Sir Frank Packer - media proprietor
- Gary Shead - artist
- Kenneth Slessor - poet and journalist
- Tim Storrier AM - artist
- Chris Taylor - member of The Chaser team and playwright
- John Wood (Australian actor, 1909–1965) - Actor, mostly on the Australian and British stage, and POW during World War II.[5]
Medicine and science
- Sir Lorimer Dods Kt, LVO - founder of the Children's Medical Research Institute[6][7]
- Professor Anthony Gill - Researcher, doctor, author
- James Roy Kinghorn - naturalist and broadcaster
- Professor Sir Brian Windeyer (1904-1994) - Professor of Therapeutic Radiology; Dean at Middlesex Hospital Medical School, University of London 1942–69; Vice-Chancellor of the University of London 1969-72
Politics, public service, and the law
- David Arblaster - former NSW Liberal politician, Minister for Culture, Sport and Recreation and Minister for Tourism (1976) and Member for Mosman (1972–1984)
- John Booth - former NSW Liberal politician, Member for Wakehurst (1984–1991)
- Vivian Gordon Bowden CBE (1884–1942), businessman public servant and diplomat.
- Sir John Gorton AC, GCMG, CH - politician and Prime Minister of Australia (also attended Geelong Grammar School)[8][9]
- Justice John Dyson Heydon AC, QC - Judge of the High Court of Australia[10]
- Sir Leslie Melville - economist, academic, Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University
- Sir Vernon Treatt KBE, MM, QC - NSW Liberal politician, Minister for Justice (1938–1941) and Leader of the Opposition (1946–1952)
Religion
- Geoffrey Franceys Cranswick - Anglican bishop (also attended The King's School)[11]
- Donald Robinson AO - Archbishop of Sydney (also attended North Sydney Boys High School)[12]
Sport
- Al Baxter - Wallaby
- Nick Baxter - Australian Rowing
- David Codey - former Wallaby captain[13]
- James Duckworth - Australian Tennis player
- Phil Emery - Australian test cricketer[14]
- Jack Gregory - Australian test cricket fast bowler and swashbuckling batsman
- Mike Hercus - United States national rugby union team
- Tobias Lister - Australian Rowing team
- Mick Mathers - Wallaby
- Roy Minnett - Australian test cricketer
- John Newcombe - tennis player, two-time US Open and three-time Wimbledon champion
- Henry Playfair - Australian Football League player with the Geelong Football Club and most recently the Sydney Swans
- Eric Pockley - Australian tennis player, among the first dozen pupils[15]
- Nick Purnell - Australian Rowing team
- Bob Radford - Australian cricket administrator
- Lewis Roberts-Thomson - Australian Football League player with the Sydney Swans
- Haig Sare - Rugby Union player
- Dr Claude Tozer DSO - cricketer
- Phil Waugh - Wallaby
- Alexander Lloyd - Olympic rower
- Ben Tudhope - Snowboarder
See also
- List of non-government schools in New South Wales
- List of boarding schools
- Athletic Association of the Great Public Schools of New South Wales
References
- ↑ Mercer, Neil (2003-02-15). "End of a Hard Man". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2008-07-29.
- ↑ "Gentleman John fell on his sword", note in obituary of Sir John Gorton, Sydney Morning Herald, 21 May 2002
- ↑ Eric Campbell (reporter)
- ↑ "Australians dedicated to foreign service", Sydney Morning Herald, 9 March 2007
- ↑ The Advertiser, Adelaide.7 March 1936, P.24.
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- ↑ "Gentleman John fell on his sword", obituary, Sydney Morning Herald, 21 May 2002
- ↑
- ↑ High Court of Australia Website, (accessed 25 April 2007)
- ↑ Cable, K. J. (1993). "Cranswick, Geoffrey Franceys (1894 - 1978)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. 13 (Online ed.). Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. pp. 525–526. Retrieved 2007-10-20.
- ↑ Who's Who in Australia 1965, Joseph A. Alexander (ed.), p. 729, Colorgravure Publications, 1965.
- ↑ David Codey
- ↑ "Phil Emery, player profile". Cricinfo.com. Retrieved 2007-05-18.
- ↑ "Dr. Eric Pockley". The Sydney Morning Herald. 17 November 1956. p. 17.
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