An Experienced Headmaster

THE Rev. H. P. Young, M.A., B.Litt., the head ' master recently appointed to the Armidale School, at Armidale, New South Wales (where several Pacific Islands boys have been educated), and formerly headmaster of St. John’s College, Palamcottah, South India, is an Australian, and

he was educated at the Melbourne Gram mar School. After do ing a Theological Course at Moore Col lege, Sydney, he was made a Deacon by the Bishop of Bendigo, in 1909, and then spent three years at the Uni versity of Durham, England, taking his B.A. and B. Litt.

Degrees. After ordina tion in the Diocese of Norwich, he spent three years at Cambridge (Emmanuel College), taking his B.A. Degree there with second class honours in the Theolo gical Tripos, and in 1920 he proceeded to the Degree of M.A.

From 1916-18 he was Educational Missionary in Sierra Leone, and was on the staff of Fourah Bay College.

In 1918-1919 he was a Chaplain to the Australian Infantry Forces. In 1920 he went to India as headmaster of the College at Palamcottah, where he had from 500 to 600 boys on the school roll, of whom about half were boarders.

Mr. Young has been described by Dr. A. D.

Lindsay, Master of Balliol College and Vice Chancellor of Oxford University, as a first-class schoolmaster. It would seem from letters from the Bishops of Tinnevelly and Travancore that he went to Palamcottah when the school was almost ready to close. He moved the whole school five miles away, to a better position, and rebuilt it at a heavy cost, in face of incredulity and oppo sition. But he made a wonderful school of it— a successful school and one that is generally praised. The Bishop of Travancore said that Mr. Young holds very definite views on education and, though they have run counter to popular views, he has been justified again and again.

His wife is herself a gifted teacher. Armidale seems to have been fortunate in gaining such a leader in the life of the school.

Rev. H. P. Young, M.A. (Cantab.), B.A., B. Litt. (Dunelm).