Stories

These stories are brief biographies for some former students who have shown leadership in various fields. At present, only former students who have passed away have been featured. There are many Old Boys not featured who have, in their own sphere of influence, whether it be at home or at work, displayed leadership. Currently many Old Boys are leading the way in many fields of endeavour and whose lives are constantly influencing those with whom they come into contact, making it difficult to keep these stories up to date.

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Guy Owen Manning

TKS 1894 - 1899

Guy Owen Manning was the middle son of Judge Charles and Emily Manning who lived at Hunter’s Hill. His older brother Charles Edye Manning (TKS 1892-98 ) was in New Guinea with Guy before transferring to France ...

Samuel Gordon Drummond

TKS 1942 - 1946

Sam, the son of an Old Boy, William, (TKS 1911-14) grew up on a property in Lockhart before commencing at TKS in 1942 in Macarthur House. In his final year, 1946, Sam was a member of the Senior Athletics team a...

Reginald John Buckland

TKS 1906 - 1912

Reginald came to TKS from Gulgong and was in School House before Broughton House where he was House Captain 1910-12. He was School Captain and a Lieutenant in the Cadet Corps. In 1912 he was awarded the Land Cl...

Alec Broughton Doyle

TKS 1905 - 1907

Drought stalled Alec Broughton Doyle’s entry to The King’s School until he was almost 17. He arrived in the middle of the football season and had an uneventful first season in the 3rds. Over the next eighteen m...

George Fairfowl Macarthur

TKS 1832 - 1839

Although enrolled as pupil No 1 at The King’s School, George Fairfowl Macarthur did not attend on that first day in February 1832 due to ill health. However, he was the first Old Boy to go on to become Headmast...

John Malbon Maughan

TKS 1891 - 1896

A School Monitor in School House, John was awarded the Macarthur Scholarship and in 1895, the Broughton Scholarship. Dux of the School in 1895, having won the Form Prize the previous two years, he also won the ...

Walter James Valentine Voss

TKS 1912 - 1914

Jim as he preferred to be known, travelled from Queensland from the age of 11 to Tudor House before boarding in Macarthur House. A Lance Corporal in the Cadet Corps Jim formed lifelong friends at school with wh...

Denzil Macarthur-Onslow

TKS 1920 - 1922

A student at Tudor House and a boarder in Macarthur House, Denzil was a talented runner, and a member of the Senior Athletics Team having won the Mile Championship Cup and the Five Mile Cross Country Cup in his...

Francis Bathurst Suttor

TKS 1855 - 1858

Herbert Gordon Carter

TKS 1900 - 1901

Herbert Carter, a boarder in School House, was awarded the Form VI Prize for Mathematics and the Burton C Scholarship in 1901. He graduated in 1908 from Sydney University with First Class Honours in Engineering...

James Suttor White

TKS 1924 - 1931

Jim spent his early years in Goondiwindi before coming to the Prep School in 1924. A member of Thomas and later School House, Jim was a gifted athlete, excelling in Athletics, Cricket and Tennis receiving Colou...

John Colquhoun Belisario

TKS 1911 - 1918

A boarder from the Prep School where he was Captain of Old Government House in 1913, John was a School Monitor and a talented sportsman. He received Colours for Athletics as a member of the Senior Team for two ...

John Gregory Crace

TKS 1898 - 1899

May 1942 was a turning point in the Pacific war against the Japanese and one in which a King’s Old Boy, John Gregory Crace, took a leading role. As Rear Admiral commanding the RAN squadron he was ordered from S...

John Gurner Burnell

TKS 1897 - 1903

“After the capture of enemy trenches he, on his own initiative and by himself, carried out a risky reconnaissance which led to the occupation of further trenches,” reads the citation for the Military Cross of J...

John Iredale Tonge

TKS 1932 - 1933

Matriculating to Sydney University after completing his schooling as a member of School House, John graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery in 1939. Following a residency at Royal Prince Alfr...

John Thomson Gunther

TKS 1924 - 1928

John Gunther entered The King’s School on an Old Boys’ Union Scholarship as a boarder firstly in Thomas and then Macarthur House, where he was a House Monitor and a Lance Corporal in the Cadets. He graduated fr...

John Trevor Archdall Pearce

TKS 1927 - 1935

John was a boarder at the Prep, Thomas House and finally as a School Monitor in Macarthur House. He was a sergeant in the Cadet Corps and a member of the 1st Shooting Team, gaining Full Colours in his final yea...

John Watsford

TKS 1832 - 1837

“I remember my first examination in history at The King’s School and how lamentably I failed: but a kind word of encouragement from the Headmaster stimulated me to plod on with the determination to succeed.”Joh...

Macartney Abbott

TKS 1892 - 1896

Macartney Abbott was School Vice Captain in 1895 before becoming Captain in late 1895 and then again in 1896. A natural leader, Macartney was also Captain of School House, Captain of the newly formed Boat Shed ...

Nigel Hubert Bowen

TKS 1922 - 1927

“ Some people excel in a particular aspect of their lives but to a few it is given to excel in most” and Nigel Hubert Bowen was one who excelled throughout his long and distinguished career.While at The King’s ...

Reginald Laidlaw Davies

TKS 1892 - 1893

A boarder in School House and a member of the 1st XI for the 1892-93 season, Reginald graduated MBBS from Sydney University in 1901. Attending Edinburgh University in 1912 Reginald sat for and passed the Fellow...

Robert Darlow Pring

TKS 1868 - 1870

Robert was one of the students who spent their entire senior schooling under the Headmastership of George Fairfowl Macarthur, firstly at Macquarie Fields and then at The King’s School. He was School Captain fro...

Rodney Frederick Seaborn

TKS 1926 - 1931

A House Monitor in School House, Rodney was a member of the 1931 Senior Athletics Team. Post school Rodney enrolled at Sydney University where he studied Law. In 1939, just prior to the outbreak of World War II...

Thomas Griffith Taylor

TKS 1896 - 1898

Thomas Taylor was a meteorologist and geologist on Scott’s Terra Nova expedition to Antarctica in 1910.After attending The King’s School, Thomas graduated from Sydney University excelling in science and mining ...

William Charles Windeyer

TKS 1850 - 1852

A boarder and School Captain in 1851-2 William Charles Windeyer was amongst the very first students to attend Sydney University. William was the first to graduate, which he did in exceptionally fine form. He wa...

William James Semple Kerr

TKS 1946 - 1949

A boarder in Broughton House, James returned to Queensland after leaving The King’s School and concentrated on rowing, representing his State in 1954 and 1956 and winning the Lawler Trophy for the outstanding o...