OBITUARY

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 109, 4 November 1935, Page 10

OBITUARY

MR. F. H. BAKEWELL

The death occurred at Paekakariki last night of Mr. Frederick Haslam Bakewell, M.A., formerly senior inspector of schools in the Wellington Education district. The late Mr. Bakewell was born in Kent, England, in 1858, his father being Dr. R. H. Bakewell. He was educated at Queen's College, Trinidad, in the West Indies. .and later at the Otago Boys' High [School and Otago University, where he graduated M.A. in 1896. Mr. Bakewell commenced to win his way in the world by working in the bush and later as a sheep-farmer, but met with an accident while serving in the New Zealand Armed Constabulary in Taraj naki and turned his attention to school ! teaching. He began in the teaching profession at the bottom of the ladder, being in charge of a small aided school in Marlborough in 1893. He was later appointed first assistant master at Thorndon, and rapidly rose to the position of headmaster at Greytown. He joined the inspectorate in 1898, his many attainments making him particularly suited to the position. He ! became senior inspector in 1917, and retired in 1924.

Mr. Bakewell was a member of the Victoria College Council, a member of the University Senate, a member of the Council of Education, and was a member of the Wellington Hospital Board about ten years ago. He married Miss Helen Mary Brown, of Hawcra, and is survived by his widow, two sons—Dr. R. F. Bakewell, of Christchurch, and Dr. R. A. Bakewell, of Petone—and one daughter. Dr. Helen Bakewell, of the Health Department.