Brian Hone

Brian Hone

Personal information
Full name	Sir Brian William Hone
Born	1 July 1907 Semaphore, South Australia, Australia
Died	28 May 1978 (aged 70) Paris, France
Batting style	Right-handed
Role	Batsman
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1928/29–1929/30	South Australia
1931–1933	Oxford University
First-class debut	30 November 1928 South Australia v Victoria
Last First-class	10 July 1933 Oxford University v Cambridge University
Career statistics
Competition First-class Matches 44 Runs scored 2768 Batting average 40.11 100s/50s 9/8 Top score 170 Balls bowled ? Wickets 0 Bowling average – 5 wickets in innings – 10 wickets in match – Best bowling – Catches/stumpings 25/0
Source: CricketArchive, 2 November 2011

Sir Brian William Hone OBE FACE (1907–1978) was an Australian headmaster and, in his youth, a first-class cricketer.

Brian was born on 1 July 1907 to Dr. Frank Sandland Hone and his wife Lucy Hone, née Henderson, at Semaphore, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. He was educated at Prince Alfred College and the University of Adelaide (B.A. Hons, 1928) where he won Blues in cricket, football and tennis. During the 1929–30 cricket season he opened the batting for South Australia, scoring a century against Victoria and averaging nearly 50. In 1930 he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to attend New College, Oxford (B.A., 1932; M.A., 1938), and achieved honours in English. (C. S. Lewis was his tutor). He won Blues in cricket and tennis.^[1]

Brian was the brother of Garton Hone. Brian and his wife Enid had four children: Jane Hone, Peter Hone, Geoffrey Hone, and sportsman and educator David Hone.

From 1933 to 1939, Hone taught at Marlborough College, Wiltshire, and was made head of the new department of English. Whilst in England he wrote Cricket Practice and Tactics, (London, 1937).

1940–1950: Headmaster, Cranbrook School Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.^[2][3]

1951–1970: Headmaster, Melbourne Grammar School, Victoria, Australia.^[4]

1973–1974: Deputy Chancellor, Monash University.^[5]

He died in Paris on 28 May 1978. His remains lie near the Norfolk Island pine planted in Dr J E Bromby's^[6] honour in the grounds of Melbourne Grammar School.

Selected bibliography

• R. M. Jukes, Liber Melburniensis, 4th edn, Melbourne Church of England Grammar School (Melbourne, 1965)
• J. W. Hogg, Our Proper Concerns (Sydney, 1986)
• C. E. Moorhouse, "Sir Brian Hone", Unicorn, Vol 14 No 1, February 1988
• C. E. Moorhouse, Challenge and Response (Melbourne, 1989)

Reference and notes

1. Hone, Sir Brian William (1907–1978), Weston Bate, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 14, Melbourne University Press, 1996, pp 481–483.
2. Cranbrook School
3. Cranbrook School Headmasters
4. Melbourne Grammar School – Senior School
5. Former Officers of Monash University
6. John Edward Bromby, MA, DD was appointed first Headmaster of Melbourne Grammar School in 1858.

External links

• Photo of B Hone, Third Headmaster, Cranbrook School, 1940–1950.
• Photo of Brian William Hone, circa 1940.