George Pitty
Barbour
Male
Australia
1867-01-27
Williamstown, Victoria, Australia
1951-09-07
Roseville, New South Wales, Australia
From The Australian Dictionary of Biography:
https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/barbour-george-pitty-5125
By Rupert Goodman
George Pitty Barbour (1867-1951), headmaster, was born on 27 January 1867 at Williamstown, Victoria, son of Robert Barbour and his wife Catherine, née Pitty. Educated at Sydney Grammar School in 1878-84 and in classics at the University of Sydney (B.A., 1887; M.A., 1889), he won the (Sir Daniel) Cooper scholarship in classical studies and was a founder of the magazine Hermes.
Barbour taught at Sydney High School for a year, founding its magazine the Chronicle, then joined Sydney Grammar School in 1888-1910 as classics and sports master. As a pupil at Sydney Grammar he had been in its 1883 cricket team, said to be the best ever. He played club cricket with Burwood which he represented on the State association from 1902. In 1907-09 he was a member of the Australian Cricket Board of Control and was chairman in 1908-09. He also represented New South Wales at Rugby Union in 1888 and tennis in 1891.
Barbour became headmaster of Toowoomba Grammar School in 1910 and over twenty-five years built it into one of the best public schools in Queensland, especially by broadening the curriculum. He was a liberal voice for broadmindedness and tolerance against bias and bigotry. In the Arnold tradition, he emphasized hard work and disciplined study. He developed boarding-houses, the prefect system, the cadet corps and sport and continued himself to play competitive sport in Toowoomba for many years.
After retirement in 1935, he settled at Roseville in New South Wales; he died on 7 September 1951 and was cremated. He was survived by his widow Isabella Fredericka, daughter of Rev. Frederick Hibberd, whom he had married in the Baptist church at Ashfield on 3 April 1890, and by four sons and four daughters.
1893 - 1925
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12
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Round 2
William Edmondson Pascoe 1 *
George Pitty Barbour
0-6
12-10
6-1
Round 1
George Pitty Barbour 1 *
C. Bauer
6-1
6-3
Quarterfinals
R. Gavin 1 *
George Pitty Barbour
6-1
6-2
Round 1
George Pitty Barbour 1 *
bye
Round 2
C.F. White 1 *
George Pitty Barbour
3-6
6-3
6-2
Round 1
George Pitty Barbour 1 *
bye
Semifinals
Francis Robert (Frank) Drews 1 *
George Pitty Barbour
6-4
6-1
Round 1
Dr. Albert Curtis 1 *
George Pitty Barbour
6-2
6-0
Round 1
Alfred Dudley (Dudley) Webb 1 *
George Pitty Barbour
6-1
6-3
Round 2
George Pitty Barbour 1 *
Edmund J. Halliday sr
w.o.
Quarterfinals
Robert David Fitzgerald 1 *
George Pitty Barbour
6-4
1-6
6-2
Round 1
L.M. Mansfield 1 *
George Pitty Barbour
7-5
7-5