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Item: 159106

Surname: Colyer

First Name: Rev. William Knight

Ship: -

Date: 1885 2 July

Place: Maitland Grammar School

Source: MM

Details: Presentation to Rev. Colyer who was principal of the Maitland Grammar School for 31 years. Testimonials from old pupils and friends from Maitland. Autobiography

 

Item: 159107

Surname: Colyer

First Name: Rev. William Knight

Ship: -

Date: 1891 12 September

Place: Brigstock, England

Source: MM

Details: Native of Brigstock. Resident of diocese of Newcastle Australia for 40 years. Minister at a marriage in Brigstock, England

 

Item: 159108

Surname: Colyer

First Name: Rev. William Knight

Ship: -

Date: 1872 28 December

Place: -

Source: MM

Details: Death of Mrs. E. Colyer at Thrapstone, Northamptonshire, the beloved mother of Rev. William Knight Colyer, head master of the West Maitland Grammar School

 

Item: 197788

Surname: Colyer

First Name: Rev. William Knight

Ship: -

Date: 30 October 1909

Place: Cross Street, West Maitland

Source: Maitland Daily Mercury

Details: Death on 29 October 1909, at his residence, the Reverend William Knight Colyer, in his 82nd year

 

Item: 197789

Surname: Colyer (obit)

First Name: Rev. William Knight

Ship: -

Date: 30 October 1909

Place: Maitland

Source: NMH

Details: The Rev. William Knight Colyer, a veteran Church of England, clergyman, died at his residence Cross-street, West Maitland, on Thursday evening, after an illness of a few days. Though a minister of the Church of England, the deceased spent more time at the rostrum than in the pulpit, having devoted more than half a century of his life to teaching. In the early part of 1851 the first Bishop of Newcastle was anxious to establish schools in his diocese and he naturally turned to his old home to look for teachers. After many inquiries a selection was made for him in Mr. W. K. Colyer, a native of Northamptonshire, who had had some experience in schools in Buckinghamshire, Cheshire, Lincolnshire, and Edinburgh. Mr. Colyer was then 24 years of age. In 1853 he arrived in Sydney and came to Maitland where he was installed as head master of the Church of England Grammar School, a position he occupied for 40 years with credit to himself and for the advancement of his scholars, many of whom have since occupied a prominent place in public life. In 1866 he was ordained to the ministry, but never undertook any parochial charge beyond assisting the various rectors of St. Pauls Church at service or when vacancies occurred in the rectorship. He took a keen interest in the school of arts and was for years a well known visitor to the reading room. In 1855 he married Miss Capper, and leaves her with one son and seven daughters. He was 81 years of age, and had resided for nearly 57 years of that period in Maitland

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