FOUNDATION
BACKGROUND : DETAIL OF
ABORIGINAL ART MUTAWINTJI NATIONAL PARK ,
BROKEN HILL , NSW
GIL ALBURY (' 61 ) AS A YOUNG MAN
GILBERT ALBURY
INDIGENOUS SCHOLARSHIP
SCHOLARSHIP WILL ENABLE AN INDIGENOUS STUDENT TO ATTEND SCOTCH
Following a generous bequest to the School by a Scotch Foundation Senior Fellow , a new perpetual scholarship has been created to enable an Indigenous student to attend Scotch .
The Gilbert Albury Indigenous Scholarship was created in 2020 in honour of Gilbert Watson Albury ( born 7 March 1944 , SC 1951-56 , died 26 February 2020 ).
Gil attended Scotch from 1951 to 1956 in the Junior School , after which he attended Haileybury College from 1957-60 . Leaving school , he trained at the Burnley College of Horticulture and worked for the Melbourne
City Council in the Shrine of Remembrance gardens , and later for private nurseries .
After that , Gil ’ s career became varied and was interspersed with lengthy periods of overseas travel . For four years he worked for G J Coles as a trainee executive , then for Ensign Dry Cleaners , travelled overseas for three years , drove for Brighton Towing , travelled again , worked as a miner for BHP at Blackwater in Queensland , and then spent more time overseas .
Returning to Australia in 1980 to care for his dying father , Gil worked as a cowboy and as a gardener at Bulloo Downs in Queensland before settling at Broken Hill .
Gil became an Associate Fellow of the Foundation in August 2001 and a Senior Fellow in August 2009 .
He died in the Broken Hill Hospital on 26 February 2020 and was buried in the Broken Hill Cemetery on 10 March .
The Scotch College Foundation is indebted to Gil for his generosity in making Scotch accessible to Indigenous students in perpetuity .
DAVID ASHTON
56 Great Scot Issue 162 – April 2021