Remembering Evelyn Jack Rose of St John’s College Born: Unknown. Died: 4th October 1917 in Ypres, Belgium. Killed in action, aged 23. Buried: Tyne Cot Memorial Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Evelyn Jack Rose was a student King’s College before enrolling at St John’s Theological College where he studied between 1913… Read More »Remembering the ANZACs from St John’s College: Evelyn Jack Rose
Remembering Herbert Lewis Morgan of St John’s College Born: Unknown Died: 8th December 1917 in Yepres, Belgium. Killed in action, aged 26. Buried: Butts New British Cemetery (NZ) Memorial, Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Herbert Lewis Morgan was enrolled at St John’s Theological College just before the war, between 1913… Read More »Remembering the ANZACs from St John’s College: Herbert Lewis Morgan
Remembering Neil Ruffell Russell of St John’s College Born: 1888 in Wellington, New Zealand. Died: 26th March 1918 in Somme, France. Killed in action, aged 30. Service Number: WWI 32542 Last Rank: WW1 Second Lieutenant, Auckland Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion Buried: Euston Road Cemetery, Colincamps, Somme, France. Neil Ruffell… Read More »Remembering the ANZACs from St John’s College: Neil Ruffell Russell
Remembering Ernest Claud Cook of St John’s College Born: 17th December 1881 in Mangapai, Auckland. Died: 18th January 1918 in France. Killed in action, aged 37. Buried: The Huts Cemetery, Leper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Service Number: WWI 3/2615 AWMM Armed Force: Army Last Rank: WW1 Private AWMM, New Zealand Medical Corps AWMM Ernest Claud Cook was… Read More »Remembering the ANZACs from St John’s College: Ernest Claud Cook
In the St John’s Theological College Chapel, there is a World War One Memorial Plaque dedicated to the students who had given their lives during World War I. The memorial was placed by the St. John’s Theological College Association, a group of the College’s alumni, as well as friends and… Read More »Remembering the ANZACs: World War One Memorial Plaque, St John’s College Chapel
Scrapbooks from a time gone by The practice of cutting out items of interest and putting them onto blank pages is characteristic of scrapbook makers throughout the world. While scrapbooking is sometimes seen as a contemporary phenomenon, the term scrap-book first appeared in the English language in 1825, and books… Read More »St John’s College Scrapbooks
Rev’d Douglas Kidd’s lecture notes make for a brilliant archival piece A number of former students of St John’s College and Trinity Methodist College have deposited the lecture notes that they took as a student. These may seem an odd choice for inclusion in an archive, but in fact, these… Read More »Lecture notes as a source of historical information
This watercolour of the original Selwyn stone building is signed F.B. Good, Nov 3rd 1877. Fanny Bertha Good who this is presumed to be, is better known as a botanical artist. It is probable that she painted the scene during a visit to the College on that date. (Archives ref… Read More »Watercolour of early St John’s College building
This is the Springbok Tour cross that was carried onto the rugby field at Hamilton by protesters against the 1981 Springbok Tour in August-September that year. St John’s College faculty and students had a high profile, and a group from the College travelled to Hamilton for this event. The Springbok… Read More »Were You There? | 1981 Springbok Tour Cross
John Kinder was an avid watercolour artist John Kinder, best known for his photography and watercolours of New Zealand landscape, came to New Zealand selected by Bishop GA Selwyn as Headmaster of the Church of England Grammar School in Parnell, Auckland. We hold five of Kinder’s watercolours: four of St… Read More »John Kinder the Watercolour Artist
