Colin hawkes room tasmania biography

In April 1842, William Keeler Hawkes and his wife Martha arrived in Van Diemens Land from England on the ship Indian.

Shortly afterwards the established a boarding school for boys at the property now known as Franklin House at Franklin Village near Launceston.

November, 1820.

The advantages and disadvantages of a private school education continue to be debated on the premise of the individual cost of attending a private school.

Colin Hawks Room, 51, has pleaded not guilty to 243 counts of dishonesty involving about $2.2 million.

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The property was leased from Mr Britton Jones, an innkeeper and brewer, licensee of ‘The William Wallace Inn” nearby.

The school was conducted in a single storey room added to the northern side of the main house.

It quickly became one of the leading boarding schools in the colony, in 1847, being one of five in the north and eleven in total in the colony offering a classical education.

The school catered for an enrollment of up to 26 boys aged generally between 8 & 14 years, all of them sons of successful Launceston business men and graziers from the Northern midlands.

However, the school was so well regarded that pupils traveled from as far afield as St Mary’s & Hamilton to be educated there, a