BOURNE, CHARLES FREDERICK (1850-1913) was born in England, educated at the Merchant Taylors' School, London, and passed in 1868 to St John's College, Oxford, with two exhibitions. There he won a Casberd scholarship and graduated B.A. (1872). He was a fine cricketer and a leader in most sports. Two years in succession he won the one mile race for the challenge cup and the one mile and two mile races at college. Bourne joined the staff of the Manchester Grammar School as a classical master (1874) and in 1881 was appointed headmaster at Auckland Grammar School. From there he was invited in 1892 to be headmaster of Christ's College, Christchurch. By hard work and devotion to duty during eleven years there he steadily raised the efficiency and tone of the school. He retired in 1904 and afterwards conducted a school at Sumner, acted as examiner for the University and relieved the professor of classics at Canterbury College.

Bourne married (1880) Margaret, daughter of Richard Roe, M.R.C.S., Eccles, Lancashire. He died on 29 Mar 1913.

Christ's Coll. School List; Cycl. N.Z., ii (p); The Press, 1 Apr 1906

Reference: Volume 1, page 55

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