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Archives
The 25 oldest known living Old Boys
1. Rev. William Morgan, b. 23 October 1915. Captain 1935. Aged 102 14. Russell Stanley Garnsworthy, b. 29 December 1919
2. Harold Knights (Hal) Oxley, b. 22 November 1916. Aged 101 15. James Moore Allard, b. 12 February 1920
3. Sir Cyrus Lenox Simson Hewitt OBE, b. 7 May 1917. Aged 101 16. Ronald Taft, b. 3 June 1920
4. Arthur Henry Chesterman Atkins DFC, b. 5 August 1917. Aged 101 17. Dr James Kenneth Mackenzie, b. 14 June 1920
5. Dr Herbert Culvenor Purton, b. 21 November 1917. Aged 100 18. Benjamin Pascoe Hanna, b. 9 October 1920
6. John Morton Parker, b. 24 July 1918. Aged 100 19. William Wallace Stuart, b. 19 October 1920
7. Daniel Glasser, b. 28 September 1918 20. Randal James Watt, b. 1 November 1920
8. Thomas Henry Iser, b. 20 April 1919 21. Norman Horace Rashleigh, b. 3 January 1921
9. Joshua John Pitt, b. 31 May 1919 22. Kenneth George Dumbrell, b. 17 January 1921
10. Allen Cansdell Cover, b. 13 July 1919 23. Gordon Chapman, b. 24 February 1921
11. Charles Otto Malmgren, b. 14 August 1919 24. Graham James Carrick, b. 5 March 1921
12. Alexander Marshall, b. 18 September 1919 25. Peter Richard Thodey, b. 17 June 1921
13. Malcolm Robertson Riddle, b. 18 December 1919 The youngest boy is Edisen Lau, b. 14 April 2013.
25 oldest known Old Scotch Collegians since
Scotch’s inception in 1851 Including five living Old Boy centenarians*.
SURNAME
GIVEN NAMES
YRS MNTHS DAYS Alan George 101 7 20
1. Stuckey Francis Campbell 105 4 8 14. Ponsford Robert Leslie 101 7 11
2. Chandler Alfred William Herbert 105 3 0 15. Hewitt Cyrus Lenox Simson* 101 2 24
3. Howden William Balleny 103 3 18 16. Atkins Arthur Henry Chesterman* 100 11 26
4. Durston Raymond George 102 3 23 17. Robinson Harold George 100 11 8
5. Morgan William* 102 9 8 18. Nicol John 100 9 12
6. Lyne John Alexander 102 6 27 19. Purton Herbert Culvenor* 100 8 10
7. Taweel Victor George 102 4 2 20. Glenn Joseph Robert Archibald 100 7 11
8. Baker Frederick Harry Uther 102 0 9 21. Paton Walter John 100 5 28
9. Duncan Melbourne Crutchfield
13. Black
William Alan 101 11 3 22. Clayton 100 5 25
10. McLeod Donald Hamilton 101 10 6 23. Prentice Roy Riggall 100 5 24
11. Oxley Harold Knights* 101 8 9 24. Birch 100 5 23
12. Geer Charles Keith 101 8 2 25. Johnston Charles Howard Rubie 100 4 24
Sidney Pascoe
*As at
1 August 2018
THE SCOTCH COLLEGE BOAT CLUB TURNS 150
On Thursday 16 April 1868 Scotch boy William Robertson
Skene wrote: ‘The Scotch College have [sic] got up a boating
club, this was the first night of their rowing – I am not in the
club as no boy is allowed to go on to the Yarra until he has
learnt to swim – Stevens saved a young boy from drowning
in the Yarra this evening’.
Skene (right) was born at Mount Mitchell, Ballarat, on
24 May 1850 and attended Scotch from 1863 to 1868.
He kept a diary in 1868 that chronicled the beginnings of
rowing at Scotch, resulting in the challenge to Melbourne
Grammar School that started the Head of the River on 18 June
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1868. Scotch is the only school to have rowed in every Head of
the River, which has been rowed continuously since 1868, and
it is also the most successful, with 45 wins.
Although Skene’s diary does not state when the boat
club was founded (nor does any other known source), 16
April 1868 seems as good a date as any to celebrate the
150th anniversary of the Scotch College Boat Club.
Skene was a landlubber who played in the 1868 1st
XVIII. He became a grazier, and died at East St Kilda on 9
January 1901. His great-grandson Donald Skene Larkin (SC
1959-62) was also at Scotch.
Great Scot Number 154 – September 2018