User talk:Christopher Dent

Contribution to ULVERSTONE, Tasmania. Famous Inhabitants.

Ernest Roy Dent, born in Ulverstone on 11 November 1909 as the youngest of seven children, was a successful and much loved schoolteacher who taught initially in Tasmania and later in Queensland and NSW. After appointments at Brisbane Boys' College and Sydney Grammar School, in 1953 he was appointed Foundation Headmaster of Sydney Grammar Preparatory School, St. Ives, and in 1962 as Headmaster of All Saints' College, Bathurst. In 1972 he finished his 50-year career at The Kings School, Parramatta , where interalia he was Mentor to Thailand's Crown Prince HRH Vijarilongkorn. He died at Campbell Town, Tasmania on 9 May 1984.