• Title
  Benjamin Glennie - diaries, 1827-1848, together with a letter, 22 Sept. 1855
• Creator
  Benjamin Glennie, 1812-1900
• Call number
  MLMSS 6850/Box 1X
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1827-1848; 1855
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  402922
• Physical Description
  0.16 metres of textual material (1 outsize box)
  Textual Records - (manuscript)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Benjamin Glennie, pioneering Anglican clergyman of the Darling Downs district of Queensland, was born on 29 January 1812, in Dulwich, Surrey, England, the twelfth son of the Rev. Dr. William Glennie and his wife Mary, nee Gardiner. Dr. Glennie was principal of a private school for boys in Dulwich, where Benjamin was educated, later attending Kings College, London. After a period as a private tutor travelling Europe and Britain with his employers, Benjamin Glennie entered Christ College, Cambridge, gaining his BA in 1847. Three of Benjamin's older brothers, including Alfred who was later to take Orders in the Anglican Church in NSW, had emigrated to NSW. Benjamin followed them in 1847-1848, travelling with Dr. W. Tyrrell, the first Bishop of Newcastle. Tyrrell made Glennie a Deacon on 19 Mar. 1849 and appointed him to Moreton Bay. He was ordained to the Priesthood later the same year and transferred to Drayton in the Darling Downs where he became know as the Apostle of the Downs. After labouring unaided in the entire Downs district 1850-1860, Glennie became responsible for Warwick, 1860-1872, upon the division of the district into two parishes, and then returned to Drayton 1872-1876. Glennie is considered the man most responsible for the success of the Anglican Church in Queensland, having laid the foundations for the parochial system, purchasing strategic sites and building churches in the important Darling Downs district. Appointed the first archdeacon of Brisbane in 1863, he only became involved in administration of the Diocese on his transfer to Toowong, Brisbane in 1876. From 1877, Glennie worked full-time as an archdeacon and examining chaplain responsible for training local candidates for the ministry. In 1886 Glennie retired and was appointed firs honorary canon of St John's pro-Cathedral, Brisbane. Benjamin Glennie died on 30 April 1900. His wife, Mary Brougham, nee Crawshaw, whom he had married in 1868, predeceased him in 1890. The couple had no children.
• Scope and Content
  1827-1848; Diary kept 19 Jul. 1827-8 June 1840, 7 Oct. 1843-17 Oct. 1843 and 16 Mar. 1845-24 Jan. 1848, although irregularly kept until 1832. Covers the period of his early career as a tutor to the children of minor nobility, his education for the ministry, and includes his voyage from London to Sydney on the 'Medway', 19 Sept. 1847-16 Jan. 1848, and thence to Singleton.
  1840-1842; Diary kept for the period of a Grand Tour of Europe through Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Austria, 19 Aug. 1840 - 3 Oct. 1842
  1842-1844; Diary kept for 25 Oct. 1842 - 24 Sept. 1483 and 28 June 1844 - 30 Sept. 1844, including journeys through France, Italy and Switzerland, 1842-1843, and Germany, Switzerland and Belgium, 1844
  22 Sept. 1855; Letter sent to Glennie at Darling Downs, from his nephew, W.R. Glennie of Shaftesbury, England
• Finding Aids
  Read transcription of the letter here: archival-classic.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2017/D00007/a311.html
• General note
  
  Digital order no: Album ID : 823900
• Name
  Medway (ship)
  
• Subject
  Church of England--New South Wales--Clergy.
  Clergy--New South Wales--Diaries.
  Tutors and tutoring--England--19th century.
  Voyages and travels.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE997566

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