About Henry Pares Venables
Lived 1830 – 1890 (aged 59–60). Henry Pares Venables was a British pedagogue.
Henry Pares Venables (born 1830 in London – d. 31 December 1890 at Fordingbridge near Bournemouth) was an Australian educationist and school inspector.
Venables was educated at Eton College and Exeter College, Oxford, (B.A., 1853). Desiring to try his luck on the goldfields, Venables arrived in Melbourne in the Gauntlet with Henry Kingsley on 3 December 1853.
Works published by Venables include: Outline of the Geography of Victoria, for the Use of Schools (1861), Syllabus of Parsing and Analysis … for the Pass Examination at Matriculation (1882, 1885, 1887, 1890), and maps of Australasia, Malaysia and Western Polynesia (1870, 1874), and New Zealand (1870).
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Australian educationist
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Henry Pares Venables died on 31 December 1890.
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