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Tasmanian Council of Education, certificate (approx 25.5x42.5cm) for Degree of Association of Arts, Mdccclx (printed) XIX (penned) (1879), named to James Tomkins Weaver of Hobart Town, admitted in the First Class of Successful candidates to the Degree, dated at Hobart Town on 18th December 1879 and signed by the President, George Clarke, affixed at the right corner is an embossed paper stamp of the seal of The Tasmanian Council of Education Board. Handwritten ink text faded, stains at edges, some very light foxing, otherwise fine and scarce. Provenance - James Tomkins Weaver was born 30 September 1861 at Hobart and died 30 May 1935 at New Town, Hobart, Tasmania. He is buried at Cornelian Bay Cemetery & Crematorium. George Clarke was born at Parramatta, NSW in 1823. He lived in New Zealand and Tasmania. His father, a missionary teacher, was appointed Chief Protector of the Maoris in 1840. In 1846 Clarke joined the ministry of the Congrgational Church. In 1878 he joined the Tasmanian Commission of Education and when the university was instituted in 1890 he became its first vice-chancellor. His full story is available in the Australian Dictionary of Biography.

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