Jerry E Durack graduated in 1899 in Arts with First Class Honours in Mathematics and Physics, Sydney’s first Double First. He took a post as a Demonstrator in Physics at the university and he was Maths Tutor at St John’s College at the university.
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Mr Windsor worked as a cardio-thoracic surgeon and performed the first heart transplant surgery in Australia in 1968.
Eric Honeywood Partridge, Toowoomba Grammar 1908-1910
Eric Honeywood Partridge was a student at Toowoomba Grammar School from 1908-1910. He was an author and acknowledged world authority on the English Language.
Professor Neil Yeates, Toowoomba Grammar School 1929-1935
Professor Neil Yeates was a student at Toowoomba Grammar School from 1929-1935. He was a noted authority on Australian animal production and a specialist author.
Sir Harry Talbot Gibbs GCMG AC, Ipswich Grammar School 1930- 1933
Graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with first class honours in English in 1937 and a Bachelor of Law with first class honours in 1939. Admitted to the Bar in 1939 and after war service with the Australian forces, where he was mentioned in dispatches and attained the rank of Major, graduated with a Master of Laws in 1949.
Allan Arthur Morrison MA, Ipswich Grammar School, 1928-29
Allan Arthur Morrison won the Lilley medal in 1925, the Byrnes medal in 1927 and a state open scholarship to the University of Queensland (B.A., 1933; M.A., 1935) where he graduated with first-class honours in history.
A Rhodes Scholar, he graduated from Oxford with a Bachelor of Civil Law. Call to the bar in 1957, he took silk in 1971 during a career which spanned almost five decades. He was president of the Queensland Bar Association from 1978-81 and again in 1995-96.
