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Sarah Agnes Angus Brewster

1874 – 1957

Australian headmistress and naturalist

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Lived 1874 – 1957 (aged 82–83). Sarah Agnes Angus Brewster was an Australian head teacher.

Sarah Agnes Angus Brewster or Agnes Angus Brewster (29 April 1874 – 29 December 1957) was an Australian headmistress and naturalist. She was the founding head of Sydney's Hornsby Girls' High School.

Life Brewster was born in Sydney in 1874. Her English-born mother, Sarah (born Morton) gave birth to her in Belmore Barracks. Her Scottish-born father William Brewster was an armourer and they already had nine children when she was born. and she became a demonstrator of science at Sydney Technical College. In 1921 Brewster was one of the first two women who they made a fellow at Sydney Technical College.

In 1916 she and Constance M. Le Plastrier published Botany for Australian students. Brewster was the illustrator of the book. The book was said to be "the best work to date on Australian botany".

She became the founding head of Hornsby Girls' High School in (one source says) 1931 During her seven years at the school she established plants into a designed garden, she put books in the library and pictures in the corridors. Courts were built so that the girls could play basketball and tennis. She retired on 31 January 1938 and she took a renewed interest in science. In May 1965 the Head Deaconess of Hornsby School dedicated the Agnes Brewster Memorial Library to her.

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1957, Royal North Shore Hospital
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Hornsby Girls' High School
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Agnes Angus Brewster, Agnes Brewster

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Australian headmistress and naturalist (1874-1957)

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Sarah Agnes Angus Brewster was born on 29 April 1874 in Sydney.

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Sarah Agnes Angus Brewster died in 1957 in Royal North Shore Hospital.

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Sarah Agnes Angus Brewster was a head teacher.

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Sarah Agnes Angus Brewster was Australian.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Sarah Agnes Angus Brewster

· Wikidata: Q21537803

· DBpedia: Agnes Brewster

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