Merging Streams
Written by The Honourable Mr John Wickham QC (29-36)

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This is the story of the Cloisters and Guildford Grammar School, but as the Honourable Sir Francis Burt AC, KCMG, QC (31-35) says in his Preface, "It is that and a great deal more".
It tells of the founding by Mathew Hale of the Bishop's School at the Cloisters in 1858; of its closure in 1872; of the settlement of the property on the Diocesan Trustees in trust "... to establish a Grammar School for boys"; of the attempt to establish the Hale Grammar School in 1896; of the foundation of Guildford by Charles Harper in that same year and of the acquisition of that school by the Cloisters Trustees in 1910 under the Cloisters Statutes.
It tells of the disagreement between Church Office and Canon Henn and later of the financial management of the Cloisters and Guildford, leading to a disaster avoided only by the intervention of the Old Guildfordians in 1950, resulting in the separate incorporation of Guildford and the re-settlement of the Cloisters, substantially for Guildford and Christ Church Grammar School; and of the further problems with management of the Cloisters Trust by the Trustees.
Woven through the story is part of the history of Diocesan education; Guildford's repeated contributions to that; the early days of Christ Church; how the State's Perth High School assumed the name of Hale School and when, in 1958, it became an Anglican School; of the frustrations experienced by the pioneers of Church education and their efforts against apathy, vindicated now in the success of the Anglican Schools' Commission.
The Honourable David Malcolm AC (50-55) says in his Foreword, "It is a story that needed to be told and told well".
It is a major work. The author asks that any profit benefits the Old Guildfordians Association Inc.

For your copy contact og@ggs.wa.edu.au or (08) 9377 8522.
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