An Example to the Wealthy.

Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 113, 14 May 1889, Page 2

An Example to the Wealthy.

(Our Own Correspondent. ) [per s.s. makaroa at the bluff.] Melbourne, 9th May. News has been received in Melbourne of the death of Mr. Francis Onnond, M.L.C., which oconrred at Pan, in the South of France, at midnight on the sth iustant. Mr. Ormond left Melbourne with his wife in December last, and though he was then in indifferent health no serious results were anticipated. Mr. Ormond was 50 yearß of ape, and the cause of death was an(Bmi». The deoeased gentleman was esteemed throughout the community for his munificent gifts in furtherance of Education. The Ormond College was built by him, and he wob founder of tho Working Men's College, and of a Chair of Music at the University. It is ostitnated that his public benefactions during the last 12 years have amounted to little short of .£lOO,OOO. Mr. Ormond was for tho last aeven years a member of the Legislative Council for the South Western province. The Arguß says: — Mr. Ormond has left to Victoria a bright example of the higher uses to which wealth may be put when it is amassed in the hands of individuals. He was a man who realised the responsibility of money, and comprehended the enormous good whioh might be done to all classes by judicious donations, and was therefore not only ready to assist, but eager to suggest schemes of his own. Ho belonged to the honourable olase of benefactors who have sought with the means at their command to increase the means of instruction, and bring the stimulus of education to all ranks, and long after every speech that has yet been delivered in the Legislative Council has been forgotten, and every measure been superseded, the good work that Mr. Ormond has done will live and speak in the minds and lives of successive generations of grateful students.