Dr Judd has been Chief Executive of HammondCare since 1995 and is a member of the Advisory Council of the Australian Aged Care Quality Agency. He is the author of several publications on aged care as well as co-authoring "Sydney Anglicans: A History of the Diocese" with Professor Ken Cable.
Douglas Campbell Tilghman (d. 1970) served in the Australian Imperial Forces in 1917–18 and was wounded at the Battle of Hamel in 1918. Following his return to Australia, he held managerial positions in the Primary Producers’ Bank of Australia in Bega, Warwick and Dirranbandi. In 1931 he was commissioned by the Queensland Government to compile a handbook on Queensland. He later worked in local government and was town clerk of Yass from 1944 to 1951 and town and shire clerk of Bourke from 1951 to 1955. He wrote three articles on railways for the Territorian in 1965, and a report following a tour of NT in 1950 on agriculture & development, for the Commonwealth Department of Agriculture. He retired to Berry on the south coast of New South Wales. He had a strong interest in both US and Australian history and in his later years carried out research on the history of the Shoalhaven district and Bega and the lives of Hamilton Hume, Boyle Travis Finniss and Captain Daniel Woodriff. His wife Margarita Tilghman was a descendant of Daniel Woodriff. His collection of Australian books and pamphlets was bequeathed to the Moore College Library, while his Americana collection was given to the National Library of Australia
Mary Maria Andrews was born at Dry Plain Station (near Cooma, NSW) in 1915 to Albert and Ann Andrews. The family moved to Mittagong in 1925 then Sydney in 1927 for educational purposes following the separation of her parents. Mary was educated at Homebush Intermediate High School and later Hornsby Girls' High. She underwent training as a General Nurse at Gladesville Mental Hospital from 1933-1935, . studied at Sydney Missionary and Bible College from 1935-6 and was a resident at Deaconess house from 1937-8 at the recommendation of the Church Missionary Society of Australia (CMS), to which she had applied as a missionary to China in 1937.
Sailing to China in September 1938, she engaged in language learning at the College of Chinese Studies in Peiping (which was under Japanese occupation at the time) and later in Lin Hai, where she performed missionary work until she was forced to leave in late 1943 in fear of Japanese troops. She worked in Lahore, India, during 1944, and returned to Australia on furlough in 1946, during which time she was 'set apart' as a Deaconess. She returned to China in June 1947, working as a missionary in Shaohsing until she was forced to leave due to pressure from the Communist government in 1951.
Following her missionary career she continued to be heavily involved in CMS Candidates and General Committees and was a committed supporter of the South American Missionary Society (SAMS) and served on their Candidates and Pastoral Committee.
She began work as the Principal of Deaconess House in 1951, and was commissioned as Head Deaconess in the Diocese of Sydney in early 1952. As Principal, she oversaw a dramatic expansion of the institution in both physical size and occupancy. She held the position until her reluctant retirement in 1975. Many of the women who trained at Deaconess House continued to correspond with her, confide in her and shares the joys and trials of ministry with her until her life's end.
She then took on the role of part-time chaplain to three retirement villages - Goodwin Village, Woollahra (where she also resided); Elizabeth Lodge, Kings Cross, and St John's Village, Glebe. Not only did she conduct Bible studies and hold devotional meetings with the residents but she also encouraged them to give generously to missions, other Christian work and organisations for the aged. Additionally, she increased her involvement in a number of ecumenical and women's associations and was a fixture at these for the remainder of her life. Material found in her papers suggests that she supported the Healing Ministry at St Andrews Cathedral, Basilea Schlink of Darmstadt and that she attended the Billy Graham Crusade in 1979.
In 1980 she was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her Services to Religion.
Mary Andrews throughout her career and ministry was a strong proponent of greater inclusion of women into church life. She was actively involved in the events leading up to a number of milestones, including an increased prominence of the Deaconess order, the inclusion of women in the Anglican synod, and the ordination of women as Anglican Deacons. Late in her life she was fiercely in favour of the ordination of women as priests, and was a member of the Movement for the Ordination of Women (MOW).
She had a healthy interest in a wide range of Christian beliefs and recorded broadcast interviews of Chrisians from Roman Catholic, Anglican, Pentecostal, and various other Christian denominations from Australia and abroad.
Recreationally she enjoyed traditional hymns, English Cathedral music and when time permitted attended performing arts particularly 'classical' music. In fact she entered into correspondence occasionally regarding the programs of concerts and the choice of operas if she thought they were unsuitable. She also had a life-long interest in photography and left behind an exhaustive documentation of the work of Deaconess House, the organisations that she was involved with, her many overseas trips, significant occasions in the ministry of former students and friends and of women's ministry in general.
She died on the 16th of October 1996, a few weeks after the 50th anniversary of her 'setting apart' as a Deaconess.
Gordon Smee studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music before studying for the ThL at Moore College, graduating in 1935. He was ordained deacon in 1936 and priest in 1937. From 1936-1939 he was the curate at Mortdale, then in 1939 was appointed assistant minister at St Andrew's Cathedral. Between 1939 and 1943 he was the chaplain to the Children's Court. From 1943-1950 he was Rector of St John's Woolwich, 1950-1952 Rector of St Luke's Liverpool, and 1952-1968 Rector of Holy Trinity Orange. From 1967-1968 he was honorary canon of All Saints Cathedral, Bathurst. He retired in 1968, and then from 1988-1994 he was the honorary curate of St John's Molong.
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Rex Meyer was a student at Moore College, he was ordained in 1942, and served his first curacy at St. Michael’s Wollongong. He also ministered at Balmain, Ultimo, Rozelle, Roseville and Lane Cove, and others, as well as a stint with Bush Church Aid. Rex was Editor of The Australian Church Record in the 1970s and served as Chaplain to Rozelle Psychiatric Hospital 1965–81.
Harry Bates was born in Sheffield, England. After studying at Bristol Bible Churchmen’s Missionary and Theological College, he was ordained in Sydney in 1941, after marrying Dorothy Byrnell the previous year. He was a visiting lecturer at Moore College between 1941 and 1945, and resident tutor and chaplain from 1954-1959. He served in parish ministry in St Andrew's Cathedral then in Yass, NSW.
George Ash was born in the East Riding of Yorkshire, educated at Trinity College Dublin and Cambridge, before his ordination in Ripon in 1874. He served in parishes in Yorkshire and Surrey, emigrated to Australia in 1884 and worked at All Saints Woollahra and St Augustine's Neutral Bay.