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4 unusual facts about Wesley College


Ben Darrou

He played along side Toby Greene, Sam Frost (GWS), and Hal Hunter (Essendon) for the Wesley College Football 1st XVII in 2012.

Pray and work

Wesley College, Colombo, a high school in Sri Lanka founded by Methodist missionaries in 1874, has been using Ora Et Labora as the motto since its inception.

Wesley College, Auckland

Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō - Prime Minister of Tonga (Voted in 2011 - Known as Siale Kaho while at College)

Wesley Theological College

In 1968, Parkin College and Wesley Theological College merged to form Parkin-Wesley College at the site of Wesley College.


Andrew Dent

Dent was born in Warragul Victoria, and educated at Warragul High School and Wesley College, Melbourne before being admitted to study Medicine at Melbourne University, initially at Queen's College.

Ben Hollioake

Ben Hollioake died on 23 March 2002 in Perth, Australia near his childhood school Wesley College, Perth, when he crashed his Porsche 924 convertible into a wall on the Mill Point Road exit of the Kwinana Freeway on his way home from a family celebration.

Edward Milford

He attended Wesley College and then in 1913, encouraged by his headmaster, entered the Royal Military College at Duntroon.

Kenneth Grayston

In 1944, he was appointed assistant director of broadcasting at the BBC, moving from there to become a tutor in New Testament at Didsbury Theological College, then a lecturer at the University of Bristol.

King Edward VII School, Sheffield

KES, named after the reigning monarch, was formed in 1905 when Wesley College was merged with Sheffield Royal Grammar School (SRGS) on the site of the former on Glossop Road.

Mark Rutland

In Kumasi, he worked a great deal with a man named Brew Riverson, the President of the small Methodist training college in the city Wesley College and whom he had become acquainted with several years before at a rally he had held in Atlanta, Georgia.

Mitchell Marsh

He is a Wesley College Old Boy and holds the record for most runs in one Darlot Season, while Shaun Marsh, his older brother, holds the highest Darlot average.


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Jot Agyeman

He attended Prempeh College for high school, Wesley College for Teacher Training and continued to the University of Ghana, Legon, where he studied Theater Arts.

Uiliami Leilua Vi

He was educated at Tupou College and finishing off at Wesley College and Grammar School, Auckland, New Zealand.