Bro. David Alexander McNicholl,
Past Master Lodge St. Patrick No. 468.
Mr. David Alexander McNicoll . Head Master of the George Street Public School, was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1845. Accompanying his parents to Victoria in 1849, Mr. McNicholl was educated at the East Melbourne national school under Mr. J. Main, who was afterwards Inspector-General of schools in Victoria. Mr. McNicoll served as a pupil-teacher at the school at which he was primarily educated, and after about eighteen months in commercial life, became assistant in the same institution. He was afterwards on the staff of the South Melbourne school under Mr. James Smith, and remained twelve years, rising to be first assistant, and was engaged as such for ten years. Crossing the Tasman Sea in April, 1876, Mr. McNicoll was appointed master of the
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Bro. David Alexander McNicholl,
Past Master Lodge St. Patrick No. 468. |
Queenstown school, and a year later was transferred to Outram, where he remained for nearly three years. About the end of 1879 he was appointed to the position he now helds, and took charge of the school at its opening in 1880. Mr. McNicoll is a member of the Otago and New Zealand institutes, and has long been connected with the Otago Educational Institute, of which he was at one time president. In the Masonic Order he holds the rank of Past Deputy Provincial Grand Master, I.C. He was married in 1871 to a daughter of the late Mr. Warne, of Melbourne, and has three sons and two daughters.