Brian Hone
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Full name | Sir Brian William Hone | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Semaphore, South Australia, Australia |
1 July 1907||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Paris, France |
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Batting style | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
- R. M. Jukes, Liber Melburniensis, 4th edn, Melbourne Church of England Grammar School (Melbourne, 1965).
- J. W. Hogg, Our Proper Concerns (Sydney, 1986).
- C. E. Moorhouse, Sir Brian Hone, Unicorn, Vol 14 No 1, February 1988
- C. E. Moorhouse, Challenge and Response (Melbourne, 1989);
Reference and notes
- ↑ Hone, Sir Brian William (1907–1978), Weston Bate, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 14, Melbourne University Press, 1996, pp 481–483.
- ↑ Cranbrook School
- ↑ Cranbrook School Headmasters
- ↑ Melbourne Grammar School – Senior School
- ↑ Former Officers of Monash University
- ↑ John Edward Bromby, MA, DD was appointed first Headmaster of Melbourne Grammar School in 1858.
External links
- Photo of B Hone, Third Headmaster, Cranbrook School, 1940–1950.
- Photo of Brian William Hone, circa 1960.
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