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KNIGHTHOOD FOP, THE LATE L. C. R0i3SON
Stnemej-yJp t 1.1Ho obA
The Queen has been graciously pleased to
approve that the honour of Knighthood should be conferred
upon the late Mr. Leonard Charles ilobson, C0.
in the New Year Honours List, 1965, for his services
in the field of education in Australia.
Mr. Riobson died on the 5th December, 1964+.
Her Majesty has approved that Mrs. Robson be granted the
style title place and precedence to ., hich she would
have teen entitled had her husband survived to receive
the honour of Knighthood.
CANBERRA,
31st August, 1965. BA CKGROUND
Leonard Charles Robson was in early life a
distinguished student and Rhodes Scholar for New South
Wales. He served with the First A. I. F. and won the
Military Cross, The service for which he would be most remembered
was that which he gave to the independent schools of
Australia in a variety of ways for more than 40O years. He
was one of the outstanding headmasters in recent times in
Australia, his period of leadership at Shore ( Church of
Eingland Grammar School, North Sydney) extending from 1923
to 1958. He was awarded a C. B. E. in 1955. He was one of
the moving spirits in the formation of the Headxnasterst
Conference. His years of formal retirement saw no slackening
in his work for the independent schools. It was largely
because of his initiative and enterprise that the Industrial
Fund for the Advancement of Scientific Education in Schools
was established; The Fund's income is contributed by
industry and commerce and has been used to help a considerable
number of Conference schools. When the Commonwealth
initiated its own scheme in 1964 for science grants to
schools, Mr. Robson became the first Chairman of the
Advisory Committee on Standards for Science Facilities in
independent Secondary Schools which the Government set up
to aid it in the administration of the new scheme,
Mr. itobson's services to education included, at
the same time, his i'ork as a member of three boards the
Soldiers' Children Education Board, the Board of Secondary
School Studies and a contribution for which the Commonwealth
was particularly grateful, the Commonwealth Scholarships
Board.
Menzies, Robert
Period of Service: 19/12/1949 - 26/01/1966
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FOR PRESS: P.M.NO 64/1965 KNIGHTOOD FOR THE LATE L.C ROBSON STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER THE RT. HON. SIR ROBERT MENZIES
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