Mathew+Flinders


 * ==The school opened as Flinders National Grammar School in January 1858. The foundation stone for the school was laid on 5 December 1856 by Lieutenant Governor Major General Edward McArthur. The school was going to be named the Geelong National Grammar School, but the Governor said that it should be named after Captain Matthew Flinders the first European explorer to visit the You Yang’s. When the school opened in January 1858 116 boys were enrolled but there was no room for girls. Falling enrolments forced the school to become coeducational in 1864.==

by //Xander// Profaca & //Cooper// Were
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