HAWTHORNE, STUART (1833-75) graduated M.A. at Sydney University and was headmaster of the Ipswich Grammar School. In 1869 he was appointed rector of the Otago Boys' High School, which was then in a critical condition. Hawthorne already showed signs of failing health when a commission was set up in 1873 to consider the state of the school. This body (consisting of Sir John Richardson, Professor Shand, R. Stout and James Hislop) recommended that the school should be divided into upper and lower departments, and that a board of advice should be appointed. Hawthorne appeared at the bar of the Provincial Council to vindicate his administration. He died on 8 Jun 1875.

Otago H.S. O.B. Reg.; Otago Daily Times, 5 Aug 1889, 3 Aug 1933 (p).

Reference: Volume 1, page 202

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