Name: Brisbane Grammar School
Time: 1869 - Current
Epoch: Late 19th Century
Category: Grammar School
Institution Category: Education
Institution Group: Combined Levels
Coordinates: -27.4593616666667, 153.017195
Street Address: 24 Gregory Tce & 28 Gregory Tce & 49 College Rd, Spring Hill
Suburb: Spring Hill
Sector: Independent \'Grammar\'
Local Study Area: Spring Hill-CBD-Fortitude Valley-New Farm (Inner City)
Study Stage: MBNH Stage 9 Local Study Areas
Brisbane Grammar School was established in 1868 under the Grammar Schools Act (1860). The School was relocated to the Gregory Terrace site in 1881, and had been on the Roma Street site, since 1868. The leading Principals were Reginald Heber Roe (1876-1909); Stuart Stephenson (1928-1939) and George Carson Cooling (1940-1947).
Geographic Description 1: Inside The Green Belt
Geographic Description 2: York’s Hollow
Geographic Description 3: Hills (Large); Not Prone to Flooding but with low-lying valley area
Brisbane Grammar School – Grammar History Archived 21 August 2011.
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Penrose, Helen. Light Dark Blue: 150 Years of Learning and Leadership at Brisbane Grammar School, Brisbane Grammar School, Brisbane, Qld, 2019.
Priest, Joan. From Balliol College to Brisbane Grammar: Reginald Roe, Headmaster B.G.S. 1876-1909, Charles Roe, Yeronga, Qld, 1993.
Stephenson, Stuart. Annals of the Brisbane Grammar School 1869-1922, Anthony James Cumming, Government Printer, Brisbane, 1923.
Willey, Keith. The First Hundred Years: the Story of Brisbane Grammar School, 1868-1968, Brisbane Grammar School, Macmillan of Australia, Melbourne, 1968.
The new school on Gregory Terrace, 1889. Archive: State Library of Queensland [https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37100681]
