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99 unusual facts about Melbourne


3CS

A Melbourne radio station executive Mr. M. B. Duffy became aware, through his involvement with 3KZ, that radio reception in the Colac-Otways area was generally very poor.

96.5 Inner FM

The transmitter is at the Austin Hospital, with signal transmission between station and transmitter achieved by an analogue "line-of-sight" UHF link.

A Beginner's Guide to the Sea

A Beginner's Guide to the Sea is the second album from Melbourne-based band The Holy Sea.

A.O. Segerberg

Segerberg claimed to have taken the first moving pictures in Australia at the 1896 Melbourne Cup and shown it in the Opera House, Melbourne.

Alf Wallis

Born at North Carlton in Melbourne to carpenter William Wallis and Mary Ann, née Gorman, he attended state schools at Horsham and Moreland before becoming a cutter's apprentice and journeyman.

Alfred Downward

Born in Melbourne to Edward and Elizabeth Downward, he was educated at Prahran and Mornington before working on his father's Balnarring sheep farm.

Anyone For Tennis?

Doodson & Jason English-Rees) formed in 2005 while studying advertising at RMIT University in Melbourne.

Arcanacon

1984 saw the convention at University High School and the major appearance of Syd the Arcanasaur, the convention's mascot.

Archibald Stewart

After the 1910 election he moved to Melbourne and was elected senior vice-president of the Political Labor Council, later taking on the secretaryship in 1911.

Athenaeum Club

Athenaeum Club, Melbourne, a private gentlemen's club situated in Melbourne, Australia.

Benalla railway station

Located at the Midland Highway level crossing close to the centre of town, the station is served by both V/Line Albury-Wodonga line and NSW TrainLink Melbourne - Sydney passenger services.

Bob Merrick

He shares with Jack Moriarty the record for most goals in a match by a Fitzroy player, kicking a bag of 12 goals in his club's Round 16 encounter with Melbourne at Brunswick Street Oval in 1919.

Bruce Sayers

Sayers was born in London in February 6, 1928 and moved to Melbourne with his parents.

Camp Sovereignty

On 12 March 2006 a camp was established and a ceremonial fire was lit in Kings Domain a public park in Melbourne, Australia to symbolise the continuing presence of indigenous culture in Australia.

Carlo Catani

widening and improvement of the Yarra River upstream from Princes Bridge, Alexandra Avenue and the laying out and planting the Alexandra Gardens

Darebin Creek Trail

Going straight ahead on the bitumen trail leads to the Austin Hospital helipad (Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital) near Bell Street.

Darren Millane

Although his skills were occasionally poor, at his best he found and used the football well, and became a favourite to fans at Victoria Park.

Denis Mackey

Mackey was born at Richmond in Melbourne to commercial traveller Alphonsus Denis Mackey and Dulcie Edith, née Reid.

Disappearance of Sarah MacDiarmid

MacDiarmid, who emigrated with her family in 1987 from the Scottish Highlands to Australia, had been playing tennis after work with two friends at what was then known as Flinders Park in Batman Avenue, East Melbourne, before walking to Richmond station, where they found that they had just missed a Frankston line train.

Division of Jagajaga

The area is predominantly residential and light industrial, and includes the Australian Army's Simpson Barracks, the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital, the Mercy Hospital for Women and the Austin Hospital.

Donald Macleay

Financial difficulties caused his parents to move to Canada and settle on a farm near Melbourne, Quebec, when Macleay was 16.

Douglas Lawrence

Raymond Douglas Lawrence OAM (born 1943) is an Australian organist who is Director of Music at the Scots' Church, Melbourne and Teacher of the Organ at the University of Melbourne.

Edward George Honey

A monument of Honey was erected by Eric Harding near the Shrine of Remembrance in St Kilda Road, Melbourne.

Elizabeth Wood-Ellem

Returning to Australia in 1937, Elizabeth was educated Methodist Ladies' College in Melbourne where, in her final year, she topped the state in Greek and Roman History.

Ernie Toshack with the Australian cricket team in England in 1948

Two Melbourne doctors ruled him unfit, but three specialists from his home state of New South Wales presented a more optimistic outlook; this allowed him to tour.

Fawkner Crematorium and Memorial Park

Fawkner Crematorium and Memorial Park is located in the north-western Melbourne suburb of Hadfield, Victoria close to Fawkner, Victoria, Australia.

Free Presbyterian Church of Victoria

The building of John Knox Free Presbyterian Church, Swanston Street was opened 8 May 1848 on the corner with Little Lonsdale Street and with frontage to that street.

Gary Cosier

Born and raised in Melbourne, Cosier attended University High School, where he captained the First XI and represented the Australian junior team in the West Indies.

Geoff Leek

In May 1952, as part of its promotion of the Burt Lancaster movie Ten Tall Men, the management of the Melbourne cinema The State Theatre on the corner of Flinders Street and Russell Street (now known as the Forum Theatre) measured the height of the ten tallest VFL players.

Go to the Beach

Go To The Beach is the debut album of Melbourne band The Conglomerate, and was released in 2005.

Great Ayton

Each stone was numbered so that the cottage could be reconstructed exactly in its new home in the Fitzroy Gardens in Melbourne.

Gunnarolla

The majority of the video is set in Hosier Lane in Melbourne, Australia, and features Gunadie and a group of Australian fans.

Haileybury

Haileybury, Melbourne, an independent school in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre

The Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre, is a public swimming pool complex located on the corner of High street & Edgar Street, Glen Iris, Melbourne, Australia.

The Education Department, who envisaged the implementation of the 'learn to swim' campaign, strongly supported the proposed location, a redundant tip site, on the corner of High street and Edgar Street.

Hold Your Breath

Hold Your Breath is the second album of Melbourne band The Conglomerate.

Housing Commission of Victoria

The Commission presided over the construction of the Melbourne Olympic Village in 1956, and made its mark on the Melbourne skyline during the 1960s in the form of high-rise blocks of flats on various sites around inner Melbourne, the largest of which being Lygon Street in Carlton and Atherton Gardens in Fitzroy.

:*Lygon Street (Lygon St), 4 buildings (2 S-Shaped, 1 Y-Shaped, 1 T-Shaped)

Jack Broadstock

Jack Harmer Broadstock (born 1 December 1920, date of death unknown) was an Australian rules footballer who started his league career with West Adelaide Football Club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) in 1938 before moving to Melbourne to play for the Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) in 1943 and winning a premiership with the club in his debut season.

James Edward Neild

In 1864 he took the degree of M.D. in the University of Melbourne, and the following year was appointed lecturer on forensic medicine.

Also in 1890, Neild was given a public testimonial at the Princess Theatre with his friend George Selth Coppin presiding.

Janjucetus

They are held in the Museum Victoria Palaeontology Collection in Melbourne, Australia.

John A. B. Koch

John Augustus Bernard Koch (1845-1928) was a Melbourne (Victoria, Australia) architect who practiced between 1869 and 1913.

John Aloysius Morgan

He attended St Joseph's Christian Brothers College in North Melbourne in 1917 and again from 1920 to 1926.

John Billings

On his return to Australia, he was made Head of the Department of Neurology at St Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne, and Dean of the Undergraduate Medical School within the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Melbourne.

John Medley Building

The John Medley Building is at Kernot Road, Melbourne University, Parkville Campus, Melbourne, Australia.

John Shirlow

Shirlow was educated at various state schools and Scotch College, Melbourne, and went to work first at Haase Duffus and Company, printers, and then in 1889 with Sands and McDougall.

John Wren

Wren became best known as a boxing promoter and through this success he was able to establish the Stadiums Limited organisation, which acquired venues in most major Australian capitals, including Sydney Stadium, Festival Hall, Melbourne and Festival Hall, Brisbane.

Joseph Schneider

Another work was St. Kilian's Catholic Church (1857) in Bendigo, credited to the firm of George and Schneider of Melbourne.

Kew House

Sean Godsell was born in Melbourne in 1960 and is a new generation of architect in the 1990s who insists on the traditions of Modernism and the crusades for the difference in family houses design.

Kind of Pluto

It was formed in 2002 by Melbourne singer/songwriter Steven Gates, drummer Simm Thom, later adding keyboardist Ben Ryderman and bassist Tommy Kende.

Little Stories

Little Stories is the second solo album from Melbourne singer / songwriter, Harry James Angus.

Louis Buvelot

Arriving in Melbourne in February 1865, Buvelot was in business as a photographer in Bourke Street for a year but soon resumed his painting.

Luciano Catenacci

He died in Melbourne, Australia on 4 October 1990 following complications from heart disease.

Madeleine Orr

Charles Orr was a caterer and hotelkeeper by profession, and he and his wife ran a succession of inner city hotels in the early twentieth century including the City Court Hotel and Tattersall's Hotel, both in Russell Street, Melbourne.

Magnificat Meal Movement

The Magnificat Meal Movement International (MMMI) was formed in 1986 as a “missionary” off-shoot of the ‘Celtic Corma Adoration’ group of Australia, which was founded in Melbourne in 1976 by J. Phelan, F. Eaton, D. Burslem and E. Burslem.

Mater Christi College

Mater Christi is a Catholic girls' secondary college located in the eastern Melbourne suburb of Belgrave, Victoria, Australia.

Melbourne City School

Melbourne City School was an independent, co-educational Prep to Year 9 school located in the Melbourne Central Business District on King Street.

Melbourne Fashion Festival

Melbourne, the capital city of the Australian state of Victoria, is renowned for its fashion scene and is sometimes considered Australia's fashion capital rivalling and disputing Sydney.

Melbourne McTaggart Tait

Born in Melbourne, Canada East, studied at St Francis College and received a Bachelor of Civil Law degree from McGill University in 1862.

Metropolitan Golf Club

The Metropolitan Golf Club, tucked quietly in Melbourne's south eastern suburbs is one of the renowned sandbelt courses and widely recognised as one of the finest championship courses in Australia.

Moler

Moler (previously called Snuff) is a three-piece power pop band from Melbourne, Australia, featuring Helen Cattanach, Julien Poulsen, and an often changing drummer.

Monash University, Clayton campus

Monash University, Clayton Campus is the main campus of Monash University located in Clayton, which is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, in the state of Victoria.

Morton Park

Morton Park is located along the Belgrave and Lilydale railway lines, and is in close proximity to St Thomas the Apostle Primary School, Blackburn Lake Primary School, Blackburn Lake, Blackburn Railway Station and the Blackburn Library.

Newmarket railway station

Newmarket railway station, Melbourne, a station serving Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Old Haileyburians

List of people educated at Haileybury, Melbourne for a list of old boys of the school in Melbourne

Oswald Stoll

Born in Melbourne, Australia as Oswald Gray, Stoll moved to England with his mother after the death of his father.

Our Lady of Sion College

Our Lady of Sion College is a Catholic school for girls located in Box Hill, Melbourne, Australia.

Paul Cox

His teaching at Prahran College of Advanced Education in the 1970s influenced a number of photographers and filmmakers, including Carol Jerrems and Bill Henson.

Peter Chitty

After missing Round 12 with a leg injury, Chitty returned to St Kilda's league side for the Round 13 match against South Melbourne.

Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

The East Melbourne campus is located at the site of the former St Andrew's Hospital (that was run by the Presbyterian Church), to which the (then) Peter MacCallum Clinic (which was formerly at the corner of William Street and Little Lonsdale Street) moved in the 1990s.

Ramingining, Northern Territory

A newer program that started in 2009 saw year nine boys from St Kevins College in Victoria visit Ramingining.

Reginald Spencer Ellery

In establishing the Melbourne Institute for Psycho-Analysis in October 1940, the group encountered opposition from both the Federal government and the local branch of the British Medical Association.

Royal Park Touch

RPT consists of 42 teams playing social touch football in the inner Melbourne suburb of Parkville.

Ruyton Girls' School

Ruyton Girls' School (commonly referred to simply as Ruyton), is a non-denominational, independent, day school for girls, located in Selbourne Road, Kew, an inner-eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Sam Rosa

In 1888 he moved to Melbourne and established the local branch of the Australian Socialist League; on 20 July 1889 he formed the Social Democratic League with William Maloney and W. D. Flinn, publishing a pamphlet, Social Democracy, in 1890.

Sandown Racecourse

The course can be reached in 40 minutes, from Flinders Street Station in the city via Sandown Park railway station on the Pakenham and the

Sidney Myer

The most famous philanthropic funding was for the construction of the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in the Kings Domain, Melbourne in 1958, which is named in his honour.

South Surrey Park

South Surrey Park follows the course of Back Creek from Union Road in the north to Riversdale Road in the South.

Squizzy Taylor

Joseph Leslie Theodore "Squizzy" Taylor (29 June 1888 – 27 October 1927) was a Melbourne, Australia-based career criminal and gangster who died violently before his 40th birthday.

St Kilda railway station

The St Kilda station was ideal for commercial use, as it is situated on busy Fitzroy Street, and was subsequently sold off.

St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne

It is one of the clinical schools at the University of Melbourne (the others being based at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, the Austin Hospital, Western Hospital, the Northern Hospital, Epping, Goulburn Valley Health, Ballarat Base Hospital and Northeast Health).

Stan Bisset

A back-rower, Bisset played with the Power House Rugby Club in Melbourne.

Taylors College

Taylors College delivers the final 3 years of Australian secondary education (Year 10, Year 11 and Year 12) at Melbourne and Sydney campuses, Year 10 and 11 at Perth campus.

It was one of 13 colleges that offered tuition to students at the University of Melbourne, and within just a few years was the most successful college in terms of students’ results.

The Getting of Wisdom

The author's family lived in various Victorian towns and from the age of 13 to 17 Richardson attended boarding school at the Presbyterian Ladies' College in Melbourne, Victoria.

Thomas Higinbotham

He moved to Melbourne, Australia in 1857, living with his eldest brother George's household in Melbourne.

Thomas James Tait

Born in Melbourne, Quebec, the son of Melbourne McTaggart Tait, Tait entered the service of the Grand Trunk Railway in 1880, and by 1903 he was manager of transportation with Canadian Pacific Railway company.

VicRoads

The main VicRoads administration facility is located in the Melbourne suburb of Kew, on the site of the former Kew Railway Station, with other Melbourne offices in Hawthorn, Burwood, Sunshine and Camberwell.

Walter J. Turner

Born in South Melbourne, the son of a church musician – organist at St Paul's Cathedral – and a warehouseman, Walter James Turner, and a woman of long golden hair, Alice May (née Watson), he was educated at Carlton State School, Scotch College and the Working Men's College.

William A. Richards

This job lasted until 1912, when he traveled to Melbourne, Australia as a delegate for the U.S. Committee on Irrigation.

William Mark Forster

Forster then gathered the newsboys of the city together in a room in Little Collins Street, and started the Herald Boys' Try Excelsior Class, afterwards known as the City Newsboys' Society.

Forster arrived in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia) on 18 October 1852 on the Ellen with his parents when he was six years old and was educated at St Luke's school, South Melbourne.

In 1864 Forster began business for himself as a commission agent and later as a general merchant in Little Bourke Street, Melbourne, where he conducted business with the Chinese and was much respected and trusted by them.

William Wedge Darke

Darke brought a wooden caravan from Sydney and set up camp with his family near Robert Russell's wood and daub hut on the south side of the Yarra River in what is now central Melbourne.

For a time Darke located his caravan at the seaside in what is now the inner city suburb of Port Melbourne after cutting the first track through the tea tree scrub.

Wodonga railway station

In 1962 the standard gauge line was extended south from Wodonga to Melbourne and from that time onwards, most interstate haulage was on the standard gauge.

Wymlet, Victoria

It is an approximately 410 km North West from Melbourne

Zelman Symphony

The Zelman Memorial Symphony Orchestra (Zelman Symphony) is the longest-running amateur orchestra in Melbourne, Australia.


Albert H. Maggs Composition Award

The award was founded in 1966 by Albert H. Maggs, a Melbourne-based professional bookmaker, amateur pianist and patron of the arts and medicine.

Anatol Kagan

After arriving in Melbourne in 1939, Kagan worked in the offices of several prominent architectural firms of the day, including Hugh & Arthur Peck, Seabrook & Fildes, Joseph Plottel, and Geelong-based firm of Buchan, Laird & Buchan.

Burnley, Victoria

In 2006, the headquarters of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade was built adjacent to the exit of the Burnley Tunnel.

Chris Boyle

During the game he awarded three penalties (two to Melbourne, one to North Queensland), and handed out two red cards to North Queensland players Chris Grossman and Eric Akoto.

Chris Brasher

Two years later, at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, Brasher finished first in the 3,000 metres steeplechase with a time of 8 minutes 41.2 seconds, but was disqualified for allegedly interfering with another runner, Ernst Larsen of Norway.

Christine McCafferty

She attended Whalley Range Grammar School for Girls (now Whalley Range High School) on Wilbraham Road in Whalley Range, Manchester, then the Footscray High School in Melbourne, Australia.

Christine Nixon

As Chief Commissioner, Nixon marched in uniform during Melbourne's gay and lesbian 'Pride March', run as part of the Midsumma Festival.

Deloris

In 2002 Deloris began work on their third record 'Fake Our Deaths', soliciting the services of engineer Matt Voigt (Cat Power, The Nation Blue, Augie March, The Dirty Three) and assistant engineer Hugh Counsell (later worked with Race the Fray), to commence recording at Melbourne's Sing Sing studios.

Dennis Charter

Charter began his music industry career in 1967 working at live band club venues in Melbourne such as Sebastian's and Berties and writing for Go-Set Go-Set magazine before establishing live music venues and promoting concerts of his own around Melbourne and throughout country regions of Victoria, New South Wales, and South Australia.

Dictionary of Australian Biography

It should not be confused with the multi-volume Australian Dictionary of Biography published by Melbourne University Press in 1966.

Edmund Rice Camps

The first two 'Edmund Rice' camps took place at Parade College in Melbourne, Australia, in January 1981, as a form of community outreach for the students of Parade, and as a way of sharing the extensive resources of Parade left unused during the Australian summer.

Elyria-Lorain Broadcasting Co.

The company also owned WMEL-AM 920 (now WDMC) Melbourne (1956 to 1993); WROD-AM 1340 Daytona Beach (1965 to 1982) and WELE-FM 105.9 (now WOCL) Deland - Daytona Beach - Orlando (1982 to 1986), all in Florida.

Ethiopian Australian

There were two Ethiopian Pentecostal churches in the Melbourne area as of 2001, as well as an Ethiopian Orthodox church in Maribyrnong.

FPV

Ford Performance Vehicles, the Melbourne-based, premium performance vehicle partner of automobile manufacturer Ford Australia

Fred Alexander

He competed in the USA Davis Cup team in 1908 which lost the final against Australia at the Albert Ground, Melbourne.

George Rolfe

Rolfe included in his roles in Melbourne a directorship of the National Bank of Australia and a significant contributor to the foundation of the Alfred Hospital.

Good Spirit

The album was album recorded from various gigs around Australia: The Enmore Theatre in Sydney on 14 August 2004; The Palais, Melbourne on 19 August 2004 and at the Fly-by-Night Club in Fremantle on 21 August 2004.

Gorgi Coghlan

Prior to joining Network Ten Coghlan was the Melbourne reporter and travel presenter for Today and for National Nine News on the Nine Network.

H. B. Higgins

Further, Higgins is commemorated by the federal electorate of Higgins in Melbourne, and by the Canberra suburb of Higgins, Australian Capital Territory.

Heathcote Junction railway station

The railway crests the Great Dividing Range through a cutting on the Melbourne side of the station, which is the highest point on the line.

Irvine Masson

He went to Melbourne Grammar School then Melbourne University, achieving a BSc with first class honours in chemistry in 1908.

Jesse Martin

In January 2009 Martin crashed his car into a train at railway level crossing at McKinnon railway station in Melbourne.

Karabar High School

"Over the years the band has performed in Queanbeyan and Canberra. The first performances were at Anzac Day and the Highland Gathering in 1991. Since then they have performed in Queanbeyan and Canberra Festivals, numerous sporting events such as Canberra Raiders, Queanbeyan Tigers and North Melbourne matches, local netball march pasts, Masters Games, polo cross and many school and community events such as Floriade, the Uniting Church Fete, the Burra Fair and the Canberra Show."

Luna Park, Pittsburgh

Remnants of the entertainment empire remain, from Mexico City (the park is now called Luna Loca) to Melbourne to Athens (now called Ta Aidonakia).

Melbourne Steam Traction Engine Club

The Melbourne Steam Traction Engine Club was established in Melbourne over 45 years ago and is located at 1200 Ferntree Gully Rd Scoresby, Victoria, Australia.

Melbourne Wireless

These projects including extending the network into the Western Region between Melbourne and Melton, extending the network north over the ranges into the Seymour area and adding capacity and reach to the Mornington and Bellarine Peninsulas.

MM1

Melbourne Metro, Stage 1 a proposed rail tunnel in Melbourne, Australia linking the Domain Interchange to North Melbourne railway station

Oceanian nations at the FIFA World Cup

In the first leg in Melbourne, Australia won 1–0 after Kevin Muscat scored from a penalty kick; however, Australia's qualification campaign ended unsuccessfully as they lost 3–0 in the away leg in Montevideo just five days later with the South Americans proving too strong.

Parkroyal

The hotels include PARKROYAL on Beach Road, Singapore, PARKROYAL on Kitchener Road, PARKROYAL Darling Harbour Sydney, PARKROYAL Parramatta Sydney, PARKROYAL Melbourne Airport Tullamarine, PARKROYAL Kuala Lumpur, PARKROYAL Penang, PARKROYAL Yangon and PARKROYAL Saigon.

Percival Ball

Ball was then given other commissions, including the statue of Sir William Wallace at Ballarat; Francis Ormond at Melbourne, and some portrait busts, now in the national gallery at Melbourne.

Prestel

The Prestel system was implemented by Telecom Australia and renamed Viatel, with the centre of operations in Windsor, Melbourne, Australia.

Puffing Billy

Puffing Billy Railway, a narrow-gauge heritage tourist railway near Melbourne, Australia

Russell Street, Melbourne

Russell Street is lined with established, green leafy trees and is the address of many restaurants, cafes, bars, shops, offices, 5-star Grand Hyatt Melbourne Hotel and luxury French label Chanel who have a flagship store on the corner of Russell Street and Flinders Lane.

Simon Perry

Perry's major public commissions include Threaded Field, Docklands Stadium, Melbourne (1999-2000), On Tap, Caroline Springs, Melbourne (2007), and the much loved Public Purse (1994).

Sound Awake

It was later mixed at Melbourne's Sing Sing Studios and mastered by Tom Coyne (DJ Shadow, The Roots) at Sterling Sounds in New York.

South Melbourne

Sydney Swans, Australian rules football club formerly known as South Melbourne Football Club

Starcom IP Asia

Starcom IP Asia consists of 17 countries and 29 offices, with locations in Australia (Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Gold Coast, Brisbane) Bangalore, Bangladesh, China (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong), India (New Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai), Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand (Auckland, Wellington), Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Vietnam.

Tate Adams

Dolmen published his first book of engravings, Soul Cages, and on returning to Melbourne he completed linocuts to illustrate the Dolmen press reprint of Riders to the Sea.

The Herald and Weekly Times

These mastheads had a 150 year (The Herald) and 68 year (The Sun News-Pictorial) history in Melbourne, respectively; HWT had bought The Sun News-Pictorial in 1925.

Upfield

Upfield, Victoria, an outer northern suburb of Melbourne, Australia

Victoria Police

In her statement on the Radio 3AW Melbourne she stated that she would like to see the new firearms begin to be issued in about six months.

Waverley Park

The game was between Melbourne and Hawthorn and the game was described as the most epic played at VFL Park, with Hawthorn winning from a goal kicked after the siren, by Gary Buckenara.

West Adelaide Bearcats

West Adelaide also made Grand Final appearances in 1980 where they lost 88-113 to the St Kilda Saints in Launceston, and in 1983 where they lost 73-75 to the Phil Smyth led Canberra Cannons in Melbourne.

William Flintoft

In later life Flintoft was Mayor of Prahran, on the Committee of the Melbourne Cricket Club, and on the Board of the Melbourne Football Club, serving as president of the latter for three years.

Zelman Cowen

He was Emeritus Professor of Law at Melbourne and the Tagore Professor of Law at the University of Calcutta.