Toowoomba Grammar School

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Toowoomba Grammar School is an independent, non-denominational, day and boarding grammar school for boys, located in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.

The school was founded in 1875 as a consequence of the Grammar Schools Act of 1860 passed by Queensland's first parliament. The original building was designed by Willoughby Powell and completed in 1876, first opening its doors to boys on February 1, 1877. Toowoomba Grammar has a non-selective enrolment policy and currently caters for approximately 930 students from Reception to Year 12, including 270 boarders from Years 5 to 12.

The school is affiliated with the Australian Boarding Schools Association (ABSA), the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA), the Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA), Independent Schools Queensland (ISQ), and has been a member of the Great Public Schools' Association Inc (GPS) since 1920.

Houses

Throughout most of the late 20th century, Toowoomba Grammar consisted of 10 houses, five dayboy houses (boys who live with their family) and five bording houses. Upon his appointment, Headmaster Peter Hauser (2003-Current) amalgamated the houses to curb the trend of dayboy/border rivalry and bullying. The new houses are simply the names of the original houses joined together. The houses are:

(Dayboy House/Boarder House - Colour)

Groom/Freshney - Green

Stephens/Partridge - Blue

Boyce/Henderson - Maroon

Taylor/Gibson - Black

Mackintosh/Chauvel - Red

The names of the houses are taken from notable oldboys or staff. For example, Mackintosh/Chauvel is named after the first headmaster (Mackintosh) and a famous general who attended the school (Henry Chauvel).

The five houses compete in interhouse competitions such as Touch Football, Basketball, Volleyball, Debating and Theatre Sports.

Notable alumni

Politics, public service and the law

Edwin John Godsall Toowoomba's second native born mayor.
Littleton Groom - Early 20th century Australian politician.
Andrew Metcalfe - Secretary of the Australian Commonwealth Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA) given responsibility for dealing with the fall-out from the Cornelia Rau and Vivian Alvarez cases in 2005.
Sir Reginald Swartz KBE MBE ED - A minister in the Menzies, Holt, McEwen and Gorton governments.

Military

Australian Army

General Sir Henry George Chauvel.
Lieutenant General Charles George Norman Miles.
Lieutenant General Cyril Albert Clowes.
Lieutenant General Eric Winslow Woodward.
Major General Walter Adams Coxen.
Major General Norman Clowes.
Major General John Irvine Williamson.
Brigadier General Cecil Henry Foott.
Brigadier General James Campbell Robertson.
Brigadier General Arthus Cecil Corfe.
Brigadier Neville Gordon Hatton.
Brigadier Eric James Gifford Martin.
Brigadier David Donal Weir.
Brigadier Keith Percival Outridge.
Brigadier Kevin Donald Whiting
Brigadier Edward Raymond Smith.Royal Australian Air Force
Air Vice Marshal Ian Stanley Parker.Royal Australian Navy
Commodore William Leonard Taylor

Media, entertainment and the arts

Alfred George Stephens - Australian author journalist, publisher and critic.
Alan Jones - Sydney radio broadcaster
Eric Honeywood Partridge - New Zealand born lexicographer of English, especially slang.
David Rowbotham - poet and journalist
Steve Haddan - Australian journalist and comedian

References

External links

Toowoomba Grammar School website

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