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| Died | 1913 | ||||||||
| Residence | Brook Street, Kingston on Thames | ||||||||
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THOMAS HARLIN, M.A., F.G.S.[1], & c., Fellow of St. Peter's College, Cambridge.[2] In 1866 a recently arrived Englishman felt impelled to write a long letter to the Brisbane Courier questioning the quality of immigrants being recruited in Britain to sail to Queensland.
Thomas Harlin had sailed on the ship Southern Ocean for Moreton Bay. On board was a large number of assisted and free passage emigrants intended for public works in the Colony, chiefly to work on the railway being constructed from Ipswich to the Darling Downs.
Harlin and many other paying passengers soon noticed that, among the labourers, a group of men that seemed grossly unqualified for the jobs for which they were recruited. Harlin described them thus:
It was quite unnecessary for me to look twice at the men, two hundred and fifty or thereabouts in number, consigned to Queensland as "railway artisans," in order to feel satisfied that a considerable proportion of them had been drawn from the loafing, and not from the working, population of Great Britain. ...
In 1869, Thomas Harlin was appointed as the first headmaster at the Brisbane Grammar School. In the 1870s he moved on to Melbourne Grammar School& died in Melbourne in 1913.
FIRST HEAD MASTER OF THE BRISBANE GRAMMAR SCHOOL. MELBOURNE, November 28.
Mr. Thomas Harlin, M.A., died at his residence, Windsor, this evening. The late Mr. Harlin, who was born in Ireland in 1832, graduated at St. Peter's College, Cambridge. In 1800 he was appointed first head master of the Brisbane Grammar School, and he held that position until he resigned at the end of 1875. He was doing mathematical lecturing at the Sydney University in 1876, and then Joined the staff of Melbourne Grammar
School until 1884, when he retired. It will be remembered that a birthday presentation was recently made to the
late Mr. Harlin by old boys of tbo Brisbane Grammar School.
