Category: Methodist Ladies' College, Kew, Victoria

Categories: Victoria, Schools | Kew, Victoria

Methodist Ladies' College (commonly referred to as MLC) is an independent, non-selective, day and boarding school for girls, located in Kew, an eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Established in 1882 on its current campus by the Methodist Church of Australasia, MLC is now a school of the Uniting Church in Australia. It was the first Australian girls’ school established by the Wesleyan Methodists, the goal of its founders being to provide a high-class Christian education for girls, comparable with that provided elsewhere for boys. The founding principal was William Henry Fitchett.

Select alumni include Cate Blanchett AC, twice Academy Award winning actress, director and theatre owner; Adrienne Clarke AC, botanist, Chancellor of La Trobe University, Lieutenent Governor of Victoria; Jessie Vasey nee Halbert CBE, founder of War Widows' Guild of Australia; Millie Peacock, first woman elected to the Parliament of Victoria; Karen Knowles, singer, producer and director; Alisa Camplin, aerial skier, Winter Olympiad gold medallist; Deborra-Lee Furness, actress.

Wikipedia: MLC; accessed 29 Jun 2019.

Joan Bennett 04 Feb 1918 Southampton, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom - aft 04 Feb 2018

Kate Campbell 22 Apr 1899 Hawthorn, Victoria (Australia) - 12 Jul 1986

Nell (Croll) Grieve 1900s - 1970s

Hilda Fiddian 22 Jun 1885 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England - 13 Nov 1984

Jessie (Halbert) Vasey 18 Oct 1897 Roma, Queensland (Australia) - 22 Sep 1966

Elizabeth (Tannock) Couchman 19 Apr 1876 Geelong, Victoria (Australia) - 18 Nov 1982

Alice (Wells) Bailey 1869 Sandhurst, Victoria (Australia) - 1952

Alfred Wood 04 May 1896 Geelong, Victoria, Australia - 1989

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