Northcote Trust

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Agent TypeOrganisationIdentifierUMA-AG-000001422HistoryThe Northcote Trust was established in 1936 following a bequest in the will of Lady Alice Northcote, wife of Lord Henry Northcote, third Governor-General of Australia.
The bequest was used to establish a farm school (which became known as the Northcote Farm School) for child migrants in Victoria.

Trustees were appointed in both Australia and England. Australian trustees oversaw the construction and then management of the Northcote Farm School. Members of The University of Melbourne appointed include Sir Samuel Macmahon Wadham, Professor of Agriculture and George Stephenson Browne, Professor of Education and Howard Carlyle Forster, Professor of Agrigulture. English trustees, working with the Fairbridge Society, selected the children to be sent to Australia, and responded to family members’ requests for updates and progress reports on their children in Australia.

While the Australian Trustees did not oversee the day to day running and management of the Farm School, they were responsible for appointing the school Principal and corresponded with the English Trustees about progress at the school and individual children.

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Date1936-

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Member of OrganisationWadham, Samuel M.Browne, George S.Forster, Howard C.

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