Lot 3609

Description

New South Wales University of Sydney, (1902), prize medal in silver (42mm), by Amor, reverse inscribed, 'Senior/Public Examination/1902/Freehand/&/Model Drawing/Winifred Mabel Sophia Eva'. In case by John Hirst & Co, 321 George Street, Sydney, uncirculated.

At the Senior Public and Matriculation Honours Examinations held at the University of Sydney and at local centres in November, 1902, Winifred Mabel Sophia Eva (daughter of Reverend Canon Eva) of the Maryborough Girls' Grammar School, Queensland also was awarded a silver medal for Music. As well as receiving A passes in two subjects she also passed European History (B), Ancient History (C), English (A), French (C), Arithmetic (B), Geometry (C), and Trigonometry (C).

Winifred's father, Canon Eva, migrated to Australia from England in 1874. He had a distinguished career in the church; some of his appointments being - Rector of Cooktown in North Queensland where he built a church (1875); Incumbent of Prospect and Seven Hills, near Parramatta, where he built a church (1878); Rector of St Paul's Church, Maryborough (1881); Rural Dean (1886); Hon. Canon of St John's Cathedral, Brisbane (1892). Canon Eva died in October 1907 leaving a wife and nine children. At the time of his death his daughter Winifred Eva was on the teaching staff of Glen Innes High School in NSW.