Brian Hone

Brian Hone
Personal information
Full name Sir Brian William Hone
Born (1907-07-01)1 July 1907
Semaphore, South Australia, Australia
Died 28 May 1978(1978-05-28) (aged 70)
Paris, France
Batting style Right-handed
Role Batsman
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1928/29–1929/30 South Australia
1931–1933 Oxford University
First-class debut 30 November 1928 South Australia v Victoria
Last First-class 10 July 1933 Oxford University v Cambridge University
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 44
Runs scored 2768
Batting average 40.11
100s/50s 9/8
Top score 170
Balls bowled ?
Wickets 0
Bowling average
5 wickets in innings
10 wickets in match
Best bowling
Catches/stumpings 25/0
Source: CricketArchive, 2 November 2011

Sir Brian William Hone OBE FACE (1907–1978) was an Australian headmaster and, in his youth, a first-class cricketer.

Born on 1 July 1907 at Semaphore, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, he was educated at Prince Alfred College and the University of Adelaide (B.A. Hons, 1928) where he won Blues in cricket, football and tennis. During the 1929–30 cricket season he opened the batting for South Australia, scoring a century against Victoria and averaging nearly 50. In 1930 he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to attend New College, Oxford (B.A., 1932; M.A., 1938), and achieved honours in English. (C. S. Lewis was his tutor). He won Blues in cricket and tennis.[1]

He was the brother of tennis player Garton Hone and father of sportsman David Hone.

From 1933 to 1939, Hone taught at Marlborough College, Wiltshire, and was made head of the new department of English. Whilst in England he wrote Cricket Practice and Tactics, (London, 1937).

1940–1950: Headmaster, Cranbrook School Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.[2][3]

1951–1970: Headmaster, Melbourne Grammar School, Victoria, Australia.[4]

1973–1974: Deputy Chancellor, Monash University.[5]

He died in Paris on 28 May 1978. His remains lie near the Norfolk Island pine planted in Dr J E Bromby's[6] honour in the grounds of Melbourne Grammar School.

Selected bibliography

Reference and notes

  1. Hone, Sir Brian William (1907–1978), Weston Bate, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 14, Melbourne University Press, 1996, pp 481–483.
  2. Cranbrook School
  3. Cranbrook School Headmasters
  4. Melbourne Grammar School – Senior School
  5. Former Officers of Monash University
  6. John Edward Bromby, MA, DD was appointed first Headmaster of Melbourne Grammar School in 1858.

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