Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsEducationalistsHistoryMartin Bottoms was born in 1871. He passed the University of Melbourne matriculation exam in 1888 and in the same year sat for the Public Service. In March 1889, Bottoms was appointed fifth class clerk in the Department of Education. He was gradually promoted in the Education Department and became third class clerk and Private Secretary to the Minister of Education as Registrar of the Council of Public Education in 1910. By 1913 Bottoms had become second class clerk and Senor Clerk and in 1920 was promoted to first class clerk and appointed a reclassified position as Secretary at the Education Department. Martin Bottoms retired from the Education Department in 1937 after forty eight years service. He died in 1969 at the age of ninety eight.
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