Launceston Grammar School is founded in Tasmania…

June 1846 CE

Launceston Grammar School is founded in Tasmania on June 15, 1846, the and the Reverend Henry Plow Kane is chosen as its founding Headmaster.

The School begins in temporary premises on the South-East corner of George and Elizabeth Streets, but soon after will commence building on the site immediately behind St John's Church, beginning an enduring and close relationship between St John's Church and the Launceston Grammar School.

On the day after Grammar opens its doors, twenty-four boys of varying ages are enrolled and Launceston is described as "a small town with a population of about 8000 people and the town was little more than a scattered village."

The school is today the longest continuously running independent school in Australia and Tasmania, and the oldest form of private secondary education in Tasmania.

The school is also the second-oldest form of education in Tasmania, after Christ College, Tasmania, the oldest form of education in Australia, now used as a residential college of the University of Tasmania.

Launceston Grammar today is widely regarded as one of Australia's most prestigious schools.

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