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In 1912 Derham was one of the founding members of the Lyceum Club [3] and its president in 1918. [2] Derham lectured in English at the University of Western Australia in 1921 and was appointed senior lecturer in English at the University of Melbourne in 1922, and held this position for the rest of her life. She died suddenly of a brain ...
The family returned to Australia in 1907 and Derham spent her teenage years on a property 'Springbank' at Narbethong near Healesville, Victoria. Frances' father took on her education, teaching her drafting, bookkeeping, and general subjects and after acquiring her Merit certificate at the local school she assisted her father with drafting.
Sir Peter John Derham AC KStJ (21 August 1925 – 24 September 2008) was an Australian business executive and philanthropist who was Managing Director of conglomerate, Nylex Plastics. Derham graduated from Melbourne Grammar School in 1943, followed by his completion of a BSc at the University of Melbourne in 1959. [ 1 ]
Frederick John Walcott Derham (21 July 1900 – 12 May 1953) was an Australian entrepreneurial businessman who founded what would become known as Nylex in 1927. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] John Derham grew up in Melbourne , where he studied at Melbourne Church of England Grammar School . [ 1 ]
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Frederick Thomas Derham (8 January 1844 – 12 March 1922) was an Australian politician and businessman. [1] Born in Bristol, he grew up in Somerset to auctioneer Thomas Plumley Derham and Sarah Ann Watts, he arrived in Melbourne in 1856 and entered the business world. In 1864 he married Ada Maria Anderson in Melbourne, with whom he had four ...
Major General Francis Plumley Derham, CB, DSO, VD (15 May 1885 – 22 October 1957) was an Australian solicitor and a senior officer in the Australian Army during the Second World War. [ 1 ] References
According to Derham, the reason behind this approach was that the law is "not fixed and static. It moves and grows." [6] This stood in contrast to the conventional style of teaching in other Australian law schools, in which part-time staff members would deliver lectures to a hall of students with little or no student-teacher interaction. [5]