NOTED SCHOLAR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 238, 9 October 1933, Page 7

NOTED SCHOLAR.

Former Nelson College Master

Passes.

DEATH OF DR. LITTLEJOHN

(Received 12.30 p.m.) MELBOURNE, this day. Tim death is announced of Dr. W. S. Littlejohn, principal of Scotch College, aged 74. He was formerly headmaster of Nelson College, New Zealand.*

Acknowledged as one of the most talented headmasters New Zealand has known, Dr. Littlejohn was to have retired from the post of principal of Scotch College, Melbourne, which he had held for the past 30 years, at the end of this year. Previous to going to Melbourne he was for five years headmaster of Nelson College, after having spent 17 years there as mathematics and science master, and it is in this capacity that he is so well remembered, in the Dominion. His influence was apparent not only in the confines of the college, ' which doubled its attendance and trebled its number of boarders during his term as headmaster, but was seen also in the surrounding district.

Among those who studied under him, or were assistant masters while he was headmaster 1 , were Lord Rutherford, of Nelson, the famous scientist; Mr. F. Milner, rector of Waitaki Boys' High School; Mr. C. H. Broad, who has recently retired from the position of headmaster of Nelson College; Sir. J. P.-Firth, who held the position or headmaster of Wellington College; Mr, "W. H. Moyes, headmaster of the New Plymouth High School; and Mr. C. T. Major, formerly headmaster of King's College.

Dr. Littlejohn's pupils can count many scholastic successes both in this country and abroad. While at Nelson he played cricket, coached and refereed football, and raised the school cadet corps to a point of efficiency where it supplied the guard of honour for the present King and Queen at a military review in Christchurch in 1901. Last month the council of Scotch College resolved that a memorial, to be called "The Littlejohn Chapel," be erected in the school grounds. He passed through Auckland in February of this year, when ho met many of his old pupils. His eons had distinguished scholastic careers in Melbourne and the Old Country, the eldest being a Rhodes Scholar for Victoria.