DEATH OF EDUCATIONALIST.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 76, 31 March 1913, Page 2

DEATH OF EDUCATIONALIST.

MR. C. F. BOURNE. The passing of a well-known and high-] ly-esteeined educationali.-'C took place°oa Saturday afternoon in the death of Mr.; C. F. Bourne, whose demise will be es- ' pecially regretted in Auckland ,by the! Old Boys of the •liraminar School, of' which he was headmaster lor several wars. The late .Mr. Bourne, who at l the time of his death was in his 64th! year, was a son of a leading official ! for many years in Jamaica, Air. Nie-; phen Bourne, and received his early; schooling at Merchant Taylor's School J London, from which establishment he passed to St. John's College. Oxford. ■with'n.scholarship. Mc hail a brilliant University career, ber-oming an exhfbi-l tinner of his college iiud jrraduating with! classical honours in IsTT. Upon leav-j ing Oxford he obtained appointment to a inii.-terehip at Mnnc-hester Grammar! Sc-horil, and while there he was selected to fill the heailmnstrrship of the Anek-j land ('-ramnui r School, in succession to j !Mr. Knrqiiliar Macrae. lie arrived with .Mrs. Bourne in ISSB, and in May.' IS!).'!, resigned to take over the head-j mastership of Christ's College, Christ-! church, which appointment he held for! upwards of ten years. During the s-es-' sion of 1007 Mr. Bourne undertook the! duties of the chair of ■classics at Auckland University College, and during 1910 and IiJU held the olliee of tutor atj St. John's College. Tamaki, failingi health forcing him to resign in the lat-; ter year. As scholar and educationalist i the deceased gentleman ranked very i high, and he was largely responsible for; the first conference of the headmasters of New Zealand secondary schools. He lost his eldest son, who was a member, of the Ninth Contingent, through a rail- j way accident while on the tray to the front in South Africa. The funeral will leave his late residence, Albert Road, i Remuera, for Purewa Cemetery to-mor-row afternoon.