Peterhouse Admission Book 1615–1911. “Jun II 12, Thomas Harlin, Gulielmi Harlin, De Lesburn, Filius, Ad Mensam Pensioniorum Admittitur in Locum Sizatoris Electus Oct. 1852, Fellow 1858, B.A., 9th Wrangler 1856, M.A. 1859, Son of William Harlin, Rose Vale, Lisburn, Ireland, Rec. by W. F. Wilson, Fellow of St. John's (Tutor's Book). Went to Australia.”
2.
Sir Charles Nicholson described him as “one who by his labours and influence will be alike serviceable to this Institution and the Colony generally.”—as quoted by Allsopp, J. H. in his Centenary History of the Ipswich Grammar School 1863–1963, 29.
3.
The Grammar Schools Act of 1860, 24 Vic. No. 7. Preamble.
4.
Brisbane Courier, 2nd June, 1860.
5.
Lane-PooleS. (Ed.). Thirty Years of Colonial Government (From the Official Papers of the Rt. Hon. Sir G. F. Bowen, G.C.M.G.). London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889. I, 183–184.
6.
Brisbane Courier, 2nd Feb., 1869.
7.
Ibid.
8.
The Queensland Express, 1st March, 1870.
9.
Thomas Harlin's Prize Giving Address 1873. (School Archives).
10.
Report of the Royal Commission on Education, V. and P. (Qld.) 1875, II, 284.
11.
Secretary, Board of General Education to Chairman of Trustees, Brisbane Grammar School, 2nd July, 1873. G.S.L.B. 12/8, 1030, 691/73. (Oxley Library).
12.
Harlin to Board of General Education and Board's reply, 1324–73. Board to Harlin 1376, 30th Sept., 1873. G.S.L.B. No. 6 (Oxley Library).
13.
For Harlin's evidence, vide Report of Royal Commission, supra, 279 ff.
14.
The Melbourne Review. III, 11, July 1878, 315–336.
15.
Ibid.
16.
Registrar to Headmaster, 9th May, 1870. Senate Letter Book. University of Sydney.
