Henry Carmichael: A Pioneer of Education in New South Wales: Part II

A few extant copies of these journals, Carmichael's own, are in the Ferguson Collection, and were kindly lent to the writer by Mr. Justice Ferguson. Vide Ferguson J. A. : “Bibliography of Australia” (Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1945), p. 126.

The Collegian, Vol. 1, No. IX.

The Collegian, Vol. 1, No. XII.

The Normalite, Vol. 1, No. II.

The Collegian, Vol. 1, No. X.

Carmichael H. “Introductory lecture delivered at the Twelfth Session of the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts on June 3, 1844”. (Kemp and Fairfax, Sydney, 1844), p. 3.

Ibid.

Lang and four other clergymen of the Church of Scotland were on board.

Ibid.

Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, Minute Book, Vol. 1, 1833–9.

Carmichael “Introductory Lecture …”, op. cit.

Ibid.

Sydney Gazette, March 26, 1833.

Carmichael H. “Introductory discourse delivered at the opening of the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts”. New South Wales Magazine, I, 2, 1833, 69 ff.

Ibid.

Third Annual Report of Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts for the year 1835. (Bull, Sydney, 1836), p. 15.

Introductory discourse, op. cit., p. 75.

Ibid., p. 159.

“Third Annual Report …”, op. cit., p. 7.

The Australian, June 10, 1836.

The Colonist, February 25, 1836, p. 60.

The Sydney Gazette, November 17, 1836.

Ibid.

Carmichael had married a widow, Mrs. Nancy Ralston McLymont, on December 4, 1833: The Australian, December 9, 1833, and the inscription on her gravestone, Seaham Cemetery.

Interview with Mr. Gavin Ralston on April 17, 1960, and article by Pearse T. H. , “The Wine Industry”, in “Handbook of the Maitland District” (British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1914), p. 37.

The Australian, January 12, 1839.

Journal and Proceedings of the Newcastle and Hunter River District Historical Society, Vol. V, June, 1951, p. 137.

Carmichael “Introductory Lecture …”, op. cit., p. 18.

Ibid., pp. 18–19, but he refused to part with the “citadel of my fortunes”, as he called his Porphyry Point house.

Sydney Morning Herald, February 9 and May 23, 1844.

Carmichael H. “Introductory Lecture …”, op. cit., 6 ff.

Ibid., p. 17.

Ibid.

Ibid., p. 9.

Sydney Morning Herald, July 10, 1844.

Carmichael “Introductory Lecture …”, op. cit.

Ibid., p. 16.

Ibid., p. 17.

Ibid., p. 18.

Sydney Morning Herald, September 25, 1844.

Ibid.

Report of the Select Committee on Education, Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council of N.S.W., Vol. II, 1844, 451 ff.

Sydney Morning Herald, September 9, 1844.

Advertisement of the school in the Maitland Mercury, December 23, 1848.

The Australian, July 10, 1838, p. 4, and “Handbook of the Maitland District”, op. cit., p. 37.

Board of National Education. “Fair Minute Book, 1848–53”. Proceedings of March 10, 1848.

Ibid.

Board of National Education: “Miscellaneous Letters Received, 1848–49”, Vol. A, March 23, 1849.

Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Council of N.S.W., 1855, I. Report of the Commissioners of National Education … for 1854, 2.

Minutes of the Board of National Education, 74, August 14, 1854.

Ibid.

Journal and Proceedings of the Newcastle and Hunter River District Historical Society, Vol. 5, No. X, July, 1951, p. 151.

Lecture delivered before the Maitland Mechanics' Institute, 1857, printed in the Empire, March 12, 1857.

Testimony of Mr. Gavin Ralston, present owner of the Porphyry Point property.

N.S.W. Supreme Court, Register of Wills, op. cit., and the inscription on the headstone of Mrs. Nancy Ralston Carmichael's grave at Seaham Cemetery.