List of Australian Presbyterians

The following are notable Australian Presbyterians:

• Arthur Aspinall - Co-founder and first Principal of The Scots College, Bellevue Hill, Sydney; Congregational and Presbyterian Minister; Joint founder of the Historical Society of New South Wales
• Jessie Aspinall - First female junior medical resident at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital^[1]
• Dr. Roland Boer - Self-proclaimed Christian Communist and biblical scholar at Renmin University of China and University of Newcastle (Australia)
• Peter Cameron - Principal of St Andrew's College; Minister convicted by the Presbyterian Church of Australia of heresy^[2]
• Arthur Dean (judge)
• John Ferguson - Presbyterian minister; Acting Principal of St Andrew's Theological College; Senior Chaplain and Chairman of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney Council^[3]
• John Flynn - Founder of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia and the Australian Inland Mission
• James Forbes - Minister of the Free Presbyterian Church of Victoria and founder of the Melbourne Academy, a college for boys (later Scotch College).
• Friedrich Hagenauer - Presbyterian minister; Founder of Ramahyuck Mission to house the members of the Ganai tribe who survived attacks in west and central Gippsland
• Allan Harman - principal of the Presbyterian Theological College
• Rev. Dr Andrew Harper - Biblical scholar and teacher
• Matthew Guy - Victorian Leader of the Opposition
• Adrian Kebbe - former weightlifter
• John Dunmore Lang (1799 – 1878) - Presbyterian minister, writer, politician and activist
• Dr. John Marden - First Headmaster of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney; Pioneer of women's education; Presbyterian elder^[4]
• John McGarvie - Presbyterian minister and writer
• William McIntyre - First Gaelic-speaking minister in Australia; educator
• Dr Ewen Neil McQueen - Second Headmaster of the Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney; Prominent educational innovator; Scientist; Psychologist; General Practitioner^[5]
• Sir Robert Menzies, Australian Prime MInister
• Reverend William Miller - Minister of the Free Presbyterian Church of Victoria
• Sibyl Enid Vera Munro Morrison - First female barrister in New South Wales^[6]
• William Ridley - English Presbyterian missionary who studied Australian Aboriginal languages
• Robert Steel - 19th-century Scottish/Australian minister and religious author^[7]
• Joan Sutherland—Operatic soprano (Australian by birth; parents were of Scottish Presbyterian descent)
• Reverend F. R. M. Wilson - Early pioneer lichenologist and minister
• Bruce W. Winter, principal of Queensland Theological College.

See also

• Presbyterian Church of Australia

References

1. Durie, E. Beatrix (1979). "Aspinall, Jessie Strahorn (1880 - 1953)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. p. 118. Retrieved 2008-01-17.
2. Cameron, Peter (1993-07-08). "The making of a heretic". Opinion-Analysis (Melbourne: The Age). p. 14. Retrieved 2008-02-26.
3. Dougan, Alan (1981). "Ferguson, John (1852 - 1925)". Australian Dictionary of Biography 8 (Online ed.). Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. pp. 486–487. Retrieved 2008-02-26.
4. Dougan, Alan (1986). "Marden, John (1855 - 1924)". Australian Dictionary of Biography 10. Melbourne, Vic.: Melbourne University Press. pp. 407–408. Retrieved 2007-10-09.
5. McFarlane, John (1988). The Golden Hope: Presbyterian Ladies' College, 1888-1988. P.L.C Council, Presbyterian Ladies' College Sydney, (Croydon). ISBN 0-9597340-1-5.
6. O'Brien, Joan M (1986). "Morrison, Sibyl Enid Vera Munro (1895 - 1961)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. p. 596. Retrieved 2007-08-01.
7. Dougan, Alan. "Steel, Robert (1827–1893)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: Australian National University. Retrieved 10 September 2013.

External links

• Official website of the Presbyterian Church of Australia
• The Presbyterian Church of Australia in New South Wales
• The Presbyterian Church of Queensland
• The Presbyterian Church of Victoria