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Grace Jones was born Grace Henderson in 1857. She became a Deaconess Nurse but was forced to give up her work due to the deterioration in her hearing. Hoping that a sea voyage might improve her condition she sailed for Australia on the ship 'The Harbinger' in 1887. She had intended to return to England 6 months later but met Nathanial Jones on board ship, subsequently married the young clergyman on 13 Feb.1888 and settled with him in Australia. She bore two children, Maisie and Stephen and survived her husband, who died in 1911.

Robert Brodribb Stewart Hammond (b. 1870 d. 1946) was ordained Deacon in 1894 and Priest in 1896, and worked until 1918 as Curate in several Sydney parishes. From 1918-1943 Hammond was Rector of St. Barnabas', Broadway, and was Canon of St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney, from 1931-1944. In 1907 Hammond founded GRIT, a weekly Temperance journal, and from 1918-1943 he was President of the Australian Prohibition Alliance. Amongst other activities, Hammond founded homes for the unemployed and in 1932, began the Hammondville Settlement for the destitute. This work was recognized by the bestowal of an O.B.E. in 1937.

Thomas Chatterton Hammond (1877-1961) was an active figure in theological and church life. He greatly contributed to the Protestant cause, firstly in Ireland, then in Australia. His greatest work was as principal of Moore Theological College,1936-1953. T.C. Hammond was born in Cork, Ireland on February 20, 1877. He was early groomed to endure hardship, but was deeply conscious of a call to christian ministry.(1) He left secular employment to attend Trinity College, Dublin, where he was awarded the Downes Prize in 1902; the Wray Prize in 1903; and won the gold medal in Philosophy. Hammond saw Philosophy as the handmaid of Theology, and Theology as the Queen of the Sciences. This determined his lifelong approach to Theology. He was ordained Deacon in 1903 and Priest in 1905 by the Archbishop of Dublin. He married Margaret McNay in January 1906. Their children were John Coleman; Thomas Chatterton; Charles Kemble; and Doris Masterson.(3) The first phase of Hammond's ministry was in Dublin, where he served the Church of St. Kevin as curate 1903-10, then as Rector 1910-1919. The second phase of ministry was as superintendent with the Irish Church Mission 1919-1929, and General superintendent 1929-1936, as well as being Chaplain to the Townsend St. Mission Church. These were years of strenuous activity, in which he preached and wrote incessantly in the cause of Irish Protestants. He received nearly 500 Roman Catholic converts, including 25 priests, into the Church of Ireland.(4) He won a new prestige for the I.C.M. In 1926 Hammond paid a visit to Australia and lectured on the prayer book in Gippsland and Bendigo. He impressed Mr.H.L. Tress of St. Paul's, Chatswood, a trustee of Thomas Moore's estate, who was instrumental in his appointment as Principal of Moore Theological College, and Rector of St.Philip's, Church Hill, in 1935. He arrived to take up the appointment in April 1936. After the death of Archdeacon Davies, there were only thirteen students at Moore College. The College buildings were in disrepair and there was a post-depression debt of 6000. Hammond's goal was to build a strong, virile college for the future. Academic standards were raised; the course was lengthened; three new wings were built; a Memorial Chapel consecrated; the staff doubled in strength; and student enrolment increased. More than two hundred men were ordained during his principalship, almost a third of the total number in the first hundred years of College history. His unrivalled scholarship as a theologian and his powers as an original thinker were invaluable assets. He resigned from Moore College at the end of 1953, but was still in office as Rector of St. Philip's at the close of his life.Bishop S.J. Kirkby died a few weeks after Archdeacon Davies in 1935, leaving St. Philip's Church vacant. The Moore Theological Ordinance of 1919 was amended so as to allow the new principal to hold office at the same time as the Rector of St. Philip's. Hammond was greatly respected for the faithful way he fulfilled his duties at the church, preaching right to the last Sunday before he died, 16th November, 1961. From the outset Hammond was in the forefront of Diocesan work, and was one of Archbishop Mowll's closest confidential advisers. In 1936 he became Rural Dean of Balmain; in 1939 he was elected a member of the Cathedral Chapter; in 1949 he was appointed an Archdeacon without Territorial Jurisdiction. He was outstanding on Synod, standing committees and played a major role in the debate and drafting of the Constitution of the Church in Australia. He was President of the Council of Churches in N.S.W.; Grandmaster of Orange Lodge; and President of Inter Varsity Fellowship. By his interstate travel, inter-denominational ministry, books, lectures, pamphlets, sermons and broadcasts he touched a constantly widening circle of men. Hammond's major books were: on theology, In Understanding Be Men (1936); on ethics, Perfect Freedom (1938); and on apologetics, Reasoning Faith (1943). In the words of Marcus Loane: "He was a man of massive intellect and noble capacity,generous, large-hearted, full of Irish wit and foible, with an irrepressible fund of humour and a strong masculine love of humanity; a great man whose like we may not see again."(7)
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1. His father died when he was 5, and he left school to start work at 14. Marcus Loane, Mark These Men, p. 71.
2. Marcus Loane, The Late Archdeacon T.C.Hammond, Societas, p. 20.
3. Pers. Com. with Charles Kemble Hammond.
4. Loane, op. cit.p. 20.
5. Loane, ibid. p.21.
6. Marcus Loane, A Centenary History of Moore Theological College, p. 139.
7. Loane, op.cit, p. 21.
   (This biography was written by Lee Holland for his 1985 finding aid of the T.C. Hammond collection)

F.G. Taplin married T.C. Hammond's daughter Doris on 9th October, 1954. Frederick George Taplin studied at Moore Theological College, Sydney and was ordained in 1945 by the Archbishop. He was the Curate In Charge of the Provincial District of Wilberforce 1945-48; Locum Tenens of Pitt Town, 1946; Rector of Carlingford 1948-49; Rector of Sutton Forest, 1949-50; Rector of Blacktown 1950-54;and Rector of Jamberoo 1954-60. He had a General Licence from 1960; was Curate of St. Philip's, Sydney in 1961 and Acting Rector there 1961-64. He became Rector of Holy Trinity, Wentworth Falls and Chaplain of Boddington Red Cross Hospital 1965-70. He died 14th November 1972.

David James Knox, a student at Moore Theological College 1897-1899, was ordained in 1899. Among his many activities, Canon Knox served with the Y.M.C.A. during World War I and was Canon of St. Andrews Cathedral, Sydney, in the 1940s (a position his son, D.B. Knox, held in the 1960s). Canon Knox also had an active interest in the Church Missionary Society, the Moore Theological College Building Fund, and the Church of England Bible College.

David Broughton Knox, son of Canon D.J. Knox, had a long and distinguished connection with Moore Theological College. He was resident tutor from 1947-1953, Vice-Principal from 1954-1958 and Principal from 1959-85. Canon Knox, amongst other interests and duties, was a past President of the Council of Churches (NSW) and was Canon of St. Andrews Cathedral (as was his father in the 1940s) in the 1960s. In 1989 he established George Whitefield College in South Africa, and served as Principal until 1992. He married Ailsa Lane in 1950 and they had six children.

Percy Walter Gledhill, church and local historian, was a foundation member of the Church of England Historical Society and the Society of Australian Genealogists. His publications document the histories of several Sydney churches.

Howard West Kilvinton Mowll was born in 1890 in Dover, United Kingdom. He was educated at Kings College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge. Ordained Deacon in 1913 and Priest in 1914, he spent the years 1913-1922 engaged by Wycliffe College, Toronto, Canada. From 1922-1926 he was the Assistant Bishop of West China, becoming Lord Bishop of West China in 1926 until 1933. In 1933 he was elected Archbishop of Sydney and in 1947 he was elected Primate of Australia and Tasmania. Archbishop Mowll died in 1958.

Bishop George Alexander Chambers (b. 1877) was a student at Moore College in 1901-1902. In 1901 he was ordained Deacon, and Priest in 1902. From 1904-1911 he was Vice-Principal of the College, acting Principal in 1908-1909, and 1920-1921, and a Trustee of Thomas Moore's Estate 1922-1927. From 191-1927 Chambers was Rector of Holy Trinity Church, Dulwich Hill, in which time he was instrumental in the foundation of Trinity Grammar School where he was a Warden from 1913-1927. In 1927, Chambers was appointed Bishop of Central Tanganyika, a position he held for 20 years until 1947. Following his retirement in 1947, Bishop Chambers took up the role of Chaplain to the British Embassy in Paris until 1955.