Christ Church Schools: Mort Scholarship
An article in the Sydney Morning Herald (27 December 1905 p 8) records of the Mort Prize:
"For Mr. Mort’s munificence in building the schools a special vote of thanks was tendered him on behalf of all sections of the parishioners, and later on, the Council decided to set apart for the commemoration of his generosity the 17th day of October in every year, when a short religious service was held in the primary school, the prizes for the year distributed and address delivered. For it was on 17th October, 1860, that the schools were opened in the presence of the Dean of Sydney, the Rev. W. Cowper, the Churchwardens, the local Ward and Mr. Mort, and at the end of the year the scholars’ roll showed an increase from 468 to 776 over the previous year’s attendance. In the following year Mr. T. S. Mort announced his intention of giving an annual prize of £5 to the best boy scholar in the school. The winning of this scholarship has always been a coveted distinction."
A speech at a memorial to T S Mort in 1878 recorded:
"Out of his own pocket Mr Mort paid for that building; and not even then satisfied, he put his hand in his pocket, and for the head boy and girl in that school, every year, he placed the sum of £5 in a bank to lie there and accrue with interest until such time as they were 21 years of age." - Sydney Morning Herald (23 May 1878, p 3 c 2).
The recipients of the Mort Scholarships are listed below:
1861 George E Dwyer
1862 William Rigg
1863 Alexander Urquhart
1864 C H Bean
1865 Thomas Wilson
1866 John Urquhart
1867 W J Phibbs
1868 James Oliver
1869 John Hardy
1870 Charles Shaw
1871 Alexander Morrison
1872 Herbert Shaw
1873 John Richards (aeq)
1873 Thomas William Sherlock Mason (aeq)
1874 William Ashton Varley
1875 Alfred J Rofe
1876 John Fulton Rofe
1877 Cecil Haviland
1878 William Brewster
1879 Arthur Camden Rofe
1880 Arthur Henson
1881 Robert Brewster
1882 John B Clamp (aeq)
1882 Colin Brewster (aeq)
1883 -
1884 -
1885 -
1886 -
1887 Arthur S Brewster
1888 Arthur Carlisle (aeq)
1888 William Platrier (aeq)
1889 Albert S Brewster
1890 Ernest Tiley
1891 George Sharp
1892 George Scott
1893 Alfred Freeman
1894 Herbert Tiley
1895 Herbert Waring
1896 Arch Carlisle
1897 R Martin
1898 Horace Everett
1899 M Cuthbert Moors
1900 Harold Tiley
1901 William Leigh (aeq)
1901 John Selkirk (aeq)
1902 Henry Martin
1903 William Dickman
1904 Eric Sydney Spooner
1905 Harrie Woods
1906 Frank Brown
1907 Arthur Dickman
1908 Roy Tatham
1909 Arthur Sadler
1910 Leslie Warner
1911 William Spooner
1912 Henry Dickman
1913 Desmond Simpson
1914 Harold Campbell
1915 Norman Fook
1916 George Wing
1917 William Wah Sing
1918 Edward Jackson
1919 Harold Baker
1920 Charles Sing Hee
1921 Charles Waring
1922 William Sing Hee
1923 Sidney Young Lee
1924 -
1925 Lance Sharp
1926 Arthur Degenhardt
1927 Walter Ibbotson
1928 Cedric Jardine
1929 Eric Sinclair (aeq)
1929 Gerald Leonard (aeq)
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