Hugh Ghilchrist and his Australian school - Cranbrook School, Victoria Road, Bellevue Hill, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

As Hugh confesses in an interview conducted with him by Christos Fifis, published in Antipodes, No 43-44, pp.51-60
Melbourne 1998; and reproduced at kythera-island.net in General History category under the title - Hugh Gilchrist - the premier Greek-Australian historian of the 20th century - an hagiography - Motivation for undertaking the Greeks and Australians project.

"My first encounter with Hellenism was my accidental entry into the Ancient Greek class at Cranbrook School in Sydney in 1928 (I had mistaken it for the Geography class, but was persuaded to stay – for five years)".

What a "happy" accident for Greek-Australian, and particularly, Kytherian Australians!

73 years later:

Old Cranbrookian Magazine June 2001, Volume 39, No. 2.

Visit of Hugh Gilchrist

[Hugh Gilchrist was born in Sydney on 8 August 1916].

Hugh GILCHRIST (1932) visited the School on
February 7, 2001 for a tour and met the Headmaster OC Jeremy Madin, staff and students.

Hugh is our senior diplomat having served at the highest level in Africa, Greece, Germany and in Asia.

Hugh served in the AMF and the AIF and from
1983–1987 was consultant on secret archives from the Department of Foreign Affairs.

He is the author of Australian and Greeks—a three volume magnum opus and was also on the Literature Board of the Australia Council. He currently supports the debating prize at Cranbrook.

Hugh was very interested in the new facilities at Cranbrook especially the boarding houses with their computers, table tennis, pool, TV and CDs.