Ethel Raybould
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Ethel Harriet Raybould (1899 - 1987)

Ethel Harriet Raybould
Born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australiamap
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Died at age 87 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australiamap
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Ethel Harriet was born on 31 July 1899 at Brisbane, Queensland, the daughter of Crispin Charles Franz Raybould and Harriet Preece.

Ethel was brought up in Paddington, Brisbane where her father had a grocery store.

The family moved to Staffordshire, England for 18 months during 1910-11, back to where both her parent's had been raised and their siblings still lived. They left from Sydney, arriving in Plymouth on 17 April 1910 aboard the White Star S.S. Suevic. Ethel was aged 10.

At the time of the 1911 English census the family was living at 7 Oak St, Kingswinford, Staffordshire. Ethel was then aged 11.

The family left England from Liverpool aboard the White Star S.S. Afric on 19 October 1911, bound for Sydney.

All four family members appeared in the 1921, 1925 and 1936 electoral rolls, living at Shenston, Given Terrace, Paddington. Ethel was recorded each time as a teacher.

From The Queensland Times dated 21 January 1921, Pg 4 - TEACHERS' SCHOLARSHIPS. UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND. BRISBANE, Sat.-Twelve teacher scholarships to the University of Queensland have been awarded with a currency of three years in the first instance as from January 1, 1931. The scholarships are based upon the results of the senior public examination of the Queensland University. Two of the holders are State school teachers. An allowance at the rate of £52 per annum is paid to each holder, who must live from home to attend the University, and an allowance at the rate of £26 per annum is paid to each holder who can live at home and attend the University. The names of the winners of the scholarships and the schools they have been attending are as follows:-Thomas Felix Washington Power, Christian Brothers' College, Brisbane; Buckley R. Vincent Forbes, Christian Brothers' College, Brisbane; John Seymour, Nudgee College; Arthur Colin Brlnston, Townville Grammar School; James Saunders Lawrie, Boys' Grammar School, Ipswich; Timothy Dalton Muiry, Christian Brothers' College, Brisbane: Gordon Hamilton M'Caughey, Nudgee College: Marjorie Hopkins, Glennie School, Toowoomba; Kathleen Margaret Banks, All Hallows' Convent; Dolsie May Sterne, Warwick State High School; Philip Charles Freestun, Mackay Boys' (assistant teacher); Ethel Harriet Raybould, Bulimba State School (assistant teacher).

This article appeared in several local papers and some included a photograph of Ethel.

From The Queensland Times dated 21 May 1927, Pg 10 - BRILLIANT STUDENT. UNIVERSITY GOLD MEDAL AWARDED. BRISBANE, May 20. The university gold medal for 1927 was awarded to Miss Ethel Raybould B. A. This honour is the award of the Queensland Government to students of any faculty on graduation on the recommendation of the Board of Faculties for outstanding merit in any department of the University. Miss Raybould is the tenth recipient of this coveted academic blue ribbon since its establishment, and so careful is the bestowal that for the three years preceding 1924, 1925 and 1926 no awards were made by the faculties. Miss Raybould, whose final academic accomplishment has been the winning of first-class honours in mathematics, is a native of Brisbane, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. Raybould, Paddington, and it is interesting to note that the foundation of her brilliant scholastic career and subsequent progress has been made through the Queensland State Schools. She was appointed as a pupil teacher in the Petrie-terrace State School, and her subsequent records in the department include the following positions in each of which she has given successful service. - Assistant teacher in the Bulimba State School, Kangaroo Point (Girls), Mundubbera State School, Rockhampton High School, Domestic Science High School, and Central Technical College, the position which she now occupies. It redounds to her credit that the heavy study necessary for her graduation has been done, for the most part, during her leisure evening hours.

A photograph published in The Brisbane Courier dated 6 December 1927, Pg 7 of the 21 teaching staff of the Domestic Science High School included Ethel in the front row.

From The Brisbane Courier dated 13 December 1930, Pg 14 - LECTURESHIP IN MATHEMATICS. At the meeting of the Senate of the University of Queensland, held on December 12, Miss Ethel Harriet Raybould, B.A., was appointed as a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. H. J. Priest, B.A., B.Sc. Miss Raybould graduated in the Faculty of Arts with first-class honours in mathematics in March, 1927, and was at the same time awarded a gold medal for outstanding merit in her final honours examination. In 1928 her services were seconded to the University by the Department of Public Instruction for assistance in the Department of Mathematics owing to the absence of Mr. Priest on account of illness. She acted in a similar capacity in 1929 and 1930. Miss Raybould will proceed to the Degree of Master of Arts at the ceremony in May next. She recently presented for this degree a thesis on "The Transfinite and its Significance in Analysis" and the examiners have adjudged the work as of a very high order.

From The Courier-Mail dated 3 October 1936, Pg 12, under the heading UNIVERSITY NEWS. LECTURER TO STUDY ABROAD. Miss E. Raybould, the Lecturer in Mathematics at Queensland University, proposes to spend the whole of 1937 in the United States of America taking a post-graduate course in mathematics at the Columbia University, New York. She has been granted leave of absence by the Senate.

From The Courier-Mail dated 26 November 1936, Pg 30 - Special Guests at the Lyceum Club. Every Wednesday afternoon the Lyceum Club holds an informal "at home" in the club rooms for members to meet for afternoon tea, and the president, Mrs. E. A. D. Amos, always makes a point of being present. Usually there is a special guest. Yesterday there was a happy, gathering, when there were two special guests, Miss Ethel Raybould, who will leave early next year on a visit to the United States of America, and then to England, and Mrs. J. R. Drake (Santa Barbara, California), who is on a visit to Brisbane staying with her mother, Mrs. W. Markwell. The latter accompanied her daughter. Mrs. Amos wore a frock of white spun silk spotted and striped in black, and she added a small black hat. Miss Raybould was in a floral crepe frock in which black and green were the predominating colours, and the neckline was finished with hand-faggotting. She added a black hat. Mrs. J. R. Drake, who is a former Queenslander, and is a graduate of the Sydney University, was in a Californian crepe frock in a large design in Royal blue, black, and white, with tiny touches of green, and she also wore a wide leafed hat of Royal blue straw. The table decorations were carried out with gerberas and delphiniums, and were arranged by Mrs. M. D. Briggs.

From The Courier-Mail dated 12 February 1937, Pg 19 - Mr. and Mrs. C. Raybould received a cable from America yesterday from their daughter, Miss Ethel Raybould, to say that she had arrived in New York. Miss Raybould, it will be remembered, left Brisbane on December 28 to attend the Columbia University to do research work in mathematics.

Ethel Raybould was recorded as sailing aboard the Caledonia from New York to Glasgow in 1938 [full date not recorded]. She was a student aged 38. Her contact address was listed as Australia House, London.

Ethel returned to New York aboard the Bremen, departing Southampton on 30 July 1938. Ethel stated Australia as her future permanent residence.

Data about the Professors and Lecturers of the University of Queensland Department of Mathematics, 1911-1972 included the following -

Raybould, Ethel Harriet, B.A. Period in Department of Mathematics: 1928 - 1955. Most senior position: Senior Lecturer.

1.3.28 - 1.1.31 Temporary Lecturer in Mathematics; 1.1.31 Appointed Lecturer; 1937 - 1939 Studied Mathematics at Columbia University in New York while on leave; 1951 Promoted to Senior Lecturer; 1955 Resigned.

Of her personal life, following the deaths of her parents in 1937 and 1938, Ethel and brother William remained in the family home at 324 Given Terrace, Paddington. In the 1943 and 1954 electoral rolls Ethel was shown as a university lecturer.

Her brother died in 1957. Ethel was still living in the family home in the 1959 and 1963 electoral rolls.

By 1980 Ethel was living at Miles St, Wooloowin, Brisbane.

Ethel Harriet Raybould died on 17 January 1987.


The following was extracted from a University News article of 1 August 1990.

Miss Raybould was Queensland's first female university mathematics lecturer. She was also one of the University's most generous benefactors, leaving a bequest of more than $920,000 to the University when she died in 1987. The opening of the Raybould lecture theatre in 1990 (constructed with part of the bequest) ensured that the name of this previously little-known female pioneer would be a permanent feature of the University for years to come. The remainder of the bequest was used to establish two fellowships and a prize in mathematics.

Miss Raybould graduated bachelor of arts in 1927 with first class honours in mathematics and one of the last University Gold Medals, which was among property she willed to the University. Gold Medals, the forerunners of today's University Medals, were awarded to students of outstanding merit - a maximum of two per year were awarded between 1911 and 1930.

Miss Raybould was first seconded from the Central Technical College where she taught, to the University of Queensland's Mathematics Department in 1928 to fill a temporary vacancy.

Miss Raybould retired in 1955 due to ill health.


The Ethel Harriett Raybould Trust: The Ethel Harriet Raybould Trust was established at the University of Queensland in 1988. Two Fellowships are available: The Raybould Tutorial Fellowship and the Raybould Visiting Fellowship. The Fellowships provide an opportunity to work in the stimulating environment of a university mathematics department and to develop a project that supports senior secondary mathematics. The Fellowship is maintained through a bequest by Ethel Harriett Raybould, a University Medallist and the first female mathematics lecturer at the University of Queensland.





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