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1800s 1858

Bishop Hale established the Bishop’s Collegiate School, the predecessor of Hale
School. The first pupil enrolled at the School was Laurence Eliot, son of the government
administrator at Bunbury. Legend has it that Bishop Hale escorted the 11 year-old Eliot
on horseback to Perth, camping out in the bush, over a three day period, in time for the
opening of the School doors for the first time at 8.30 on the 28th June, 1858. Eliot was
later to become the State Under Treasurer.

Hale School’s first site:
The Cloisters 1860
Alderley Manor, Gloucestershire Dr Mathew Blagden Hale
1864
1811 After the tenures of JG Bussell (Acting)
Mathew Blagden Hale, the founder of Bishop’s Collegiate School and Canon B.G. Sweeting (1858-63) as
Headmasters, the Reverend F.T. Taylor was
(later to become Hale School) was born at Alderley Manor,
Gloucestershire on 18 June. appointed in 1864.
1847 1865
Hale travelled to South Australia where he became an 18 August 1865:The proprietorship of
Archdeacon to Bishop Short in Adelaide While there he was the School was conferred upon a Board
instrumental in the formation of St Peter’s College in Adelaide of Governors incorporated by an Act
and primarily responsible for the establishment of a mission for of Incorporation and became formally
described as the Perth Collegiate School,
Aborigines at Poonindie on the Eyre Peninsular.
notwithstanding that it was still popularly
known as the Bishop’s School.
1848
Hale first visited Western Australia with Bishop Short (in whose 1869 The Cloisters: 1865
diocese W.A. lay) and met his future wife Sabina Molloy of Back: T Quinn, G Eliot, BC Wood, Morton Craig, O Burt,
Augusta. The Reverend F. A. Hare appointed as
Headmaster of the School. Alex Forrest, W Chidlow, W McKail
Middle: FB Wittenoom, V Bruce, EB Courthope, F Burt, The Headmaster,
1857 H Gale, A Burt, J Ramsay, F Durlacher.
Hale was consecrated first Bishop of Perth at Lambeth Palace in Front: E Wittenoom, Geo Parker, AS Roe, Chas Edwrads, J Bovell, T Shenton
London and arrived aboard the convict ship ‘Nile’ to take up his
appointment on 1st January 1858. appointment on 1st January
1858.