DEATH IN AUCKLAND

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 111, 13 May 1939, Page 18

DEATH IN AUCKLAND

MRS. ELIZA YOUNG

ALMOST A CENTENARIAN

Tutor and guide over 70 years ago to many present-day grandmothers and a few great-grandmothers of Auckland, Mrs. Eliza Young, of Bassett Road, Remuera, has died in her 98th year, states the "Auckland Star." By the surviving pupils of her governess and teaching days she would be best remembered probably as Miss Eliza Kidd, who kept. a. girls' private school *in Beckham Place, Graf ton, when Auckland was still very young. Subsequently she became the wife of the late. Dr. Alxander Young, of the'Auckland.Hospital, ,;

Born at Liverpool on September 15, 1841, Mrs. Young came to New Zealand with her parents, North of Ireland folk. They landed at Auckland on Christmas ', Eve, 1859. Her first occupation was as governess to the daughter of Sir John Logan Campbell, "the father of Auckland." Later she took. up teaching in Mrs. Glover's private school for girls at Glenside, in Upper Symonds Street. Owing to her mother's health failing she had to give up teaching and go to live in Devonport. But her mother fretted to get back to town, where she could be near a doctor —for Auckland was then a long way from Devonport—so Mrs. Young, then Miss Kidd, returned to town and opened a school for girls at Beckham Place, Graf ton. The transport was so primitive those days that pupils whose homes were across the harbour, at Devonport and Takapuna, lived at the school as boarders. Her teaching days ended with her marriage to the late Dr. Young.

Miss Dorothy Garrod has been appointed the first woman professor at Cambridge, states an exchange. She takes the chair of Archaeology at Pembroke College. Miss Garrod is a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and Director of Studies in Archaeology and Anthropology at Newnham College, Cambridge.