Theodore Fink
Name: FINK, THEODORE
Activity: Lawyers Politicians
Date Range: 1855–1930s
Quantity: 17 archives boxes
Description: Papers relating to Theodore Fink's activities as a businessman and newspaper proprietor, solicitor, politician and educationalist. Includes: correspondence; writings; autobiographical accounts; legal documents. This collection consists of Fink's original papers mixed with research notes, photocopies of correspondence and other materials gathered by various people who have worked on biographies of Fink before this collection was held by the University of Melbourne Archives.
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Accession Number: 97 / 127
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Accession Number: 97/127
Name: FINK, THEODORE
Sex: Male
Group: Business, individualsActivity:Lawyers
PoliticiansLocation:Melbourne
Historical Note: Theodore Fink was born in 1855 and attended the Flinders National Grammar School and then Geelong Grammar. In 1871 the family moved to Melbourne and Fink entered Melbourne Grammar School where he befriended Alfred Deakin, and won the school prize for poetry. Fink joined Henry J. Farmer as an articled clerk and studied law at the University of Melbourne. In 1877 Fink was admitted as a solicitor. Fink became a highly regarded constitutional and mercantile lawyer and in 1886 he entered a legal partnership with R.W.Best and P.D. Phillips. A friend of many renowned artists, writers and intellectuals, Fink became the youngest member of the Yorick Club. During the late 1880s, Fink's fortune was destroyed by land speculation and the ensuing depression. Subsequently his life took a different path and he became the owner of the 'Herald' newspaper, in addition to a parliamentary career. He also began an extensive review of the Education Department where he initiated important reforms and chaired a commission of Melbourne University. After Fink retired from parliament he served on the University Council and Council of Public Education. He died in 1942.
Earliest Date: 1850
Latest Date: 1930
Access: Open
Quantity: 17 archives boxesDescription: Papers relating to Theodore Fink's activities as a businessman and newspaper proprietor, solicitor, politician and educationalist. Includes: correspondence; writings; autobiographical accounts; legal documents. This collection consists of Fink's original papers mixed with research notes, photocopies of correspondence and other materials gathered by various people who have worked on biographies of Fink before this collection was held by the University of Melbourne Archives.
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Places:Melbourne
Subjects:Business
Politics
Law
Newspapers
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Name: FINK, THEODORE
Activity: Lawyers Politicians
Date Range: 1902-1929
Quantity: 12 cm.
Description: Letters from Tom Roberts 1920's?, Arthur Streeton 1903-1937, Charles Conder 1880's-1890' and J. Rothenstein (Conder's biographer) 1938-1937, Bertram Mackennal 1890-1923, J. Longstaff 1893 (1), J.J. Archibald 1885–1892, S. Dickinson (1), Julian and Rossi Ashton 1930s H.S.Barrett (1), Blamire Young 1880's, Phil May 1888–1891. Also Fink's reminiscences on art and artists (copy), sketch-carton by Rossi Ashton, catalogue of May's drawings from Fink's estate presented to the Applied Art School of the Melbourne Technical College in 1943, and other items.
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Accession Number: 96 / 77
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Accession Number: 96/77
Name: FINK, THEODORE
Sex: Male
Group: Other, individualsActivity:Lawyers
PoliticiansLocation:Melbourne
Historical Note: Theodore Fink was born in 1855 and attended the Flinders National Grammar School and then Geelong Grammar. In 1871 the family moved to Melbourne and Fink entered Melbourne Grammar School where he befriended Alfred Deakin, and won the school prize for poetry. Fink joined Henry J. Farmer as an articled clerk and studied law at the University of Melbourne. In 1877 Fink was admitted as a solicitor. Fink became a highly regarded constitutional and mercantile lawyer and in 1886 he entered a legal partnership with R.W.Best and P.D. Phillips. A friend of many renowned artists, writers and intellectuals, Fink became the youngest member of the Yorick Club. During the late 1880s, Fink's fortune was destroyed by land speculation and the ensuing depression. Subsequently his life took a different path and he became the owner of the 'Herald' newspaper, in addition to a parliamentary career. He also began an extensive review of the Education Department where he initiated important reforms and chaired a commission of Melbourne University. After Fink retired from parliament he served on the University Council and Council of Public Education. He died in 1942.
Earliest Date: 1902
Latest Date: 1929
Access: Open
Quantity: 12 cm.Description: Letters from Tom Roberts 1920's?, Arthur Streeton 1903-1937, Charles Conder 1880's-1890' and J. Rothenstein (Conder's biographer) 1938-1937, Bertram Mackennal 1890-1923, J. Longstaff 1893 (1), J.J. Archibald 1885-1892, S. Dickinson (1), Julian and Rossi Ashton 1930s H.S.Barrett (1), Blamire Young 1880's, Phil May 1888-1891. Also Fink's reminiscences on art and artists (copy), sketch-carton by Rossi Ashton, catalogue of May's drawings from Fink's estate presented to the Applied Art School of the Melbourne Technical College in 1943, and other items.
Persons:Roberts, Tom
Streeton, Arthur
Conder, Charles
Rothenstein, John
May, Phil
Dickinson, Sidney
Archibald, J.J.
Ashton, Rossi
Ashton, JulianOrganisations:
Places:Melbourne
Subjects:Art
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Name: FINK, THEODORE
Activity: Lawyers Politicians
Date Range: 1925–1925
Quantity: One framed item
Description: Framed birthday souvenir, presumably printed by the Melbourne Herald, in the form of a mock-up page of the newspaper. The issue marked the 70th birthday of Theodore Fink who was the Herald Chairman and includes photographs, caricatures and a staff tribute.
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Accession Number: 107 / 39
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Accession Number: 107/39
Name: FINK, THEODORE
Sex: Male
Group: Business, individualsActivity:Lawyers
PoliticiansLocation:Melbourne
Historical Note: Theodore Fink was born in 1855 and attended the Flinders National Grammar School and then Geelong Grammar. In 1871 the family moved to Melbourne and Fink entered Melbourne Grammar School where he befriended Alfred Deakin, and won the school prize for poetry. Fink joined Henry J. Farmer as an articled clerk and studied law at the University of Melbourne. In 1877 Fink was admitted as a solicitor. Fink became a highly regarded constitutional and mercantile lawyer and in 1886 he entered a legal partnership with R.W.Best and P.D. Phillips. A friend of many renowned artists, writers and intellectuals, Fink became the youngest member of the Yorick Club. During the late 1880s, Fink's fortune was destroyed by land speculation and the ensuing depression. Subsequently his life took a different path and he became the owner of the 'Herald' newspaper, in addition to a parliamentary career. He also began an extensive review of the Education Department where he initiated important reforms and chaired a commission of Melbourne University. After Fink retired from parliament he served on the University Council and Council of Public Education. He died in 1942.
Earliest Date: 1925
Latest Date: 1925
Access: Open
Quantity: One framed itemDescription: Framed birthday souvenir, presumably printed by the Melbourne Herald, in the form of a mock-up page of the newspaper. The issue marked the 70th birthday of Theodore Fink who was the Herald Chairman and includes photographs, caricatures and a staff tribute.
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Organisations:Herald and Weekly Times Ltd.
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Name: UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE. FACULTY OF EDUCATION THEODORE FINK MEMORIAL SEMINAR CONFERENCE
Activity: Teacher training institutions
Date Range: 1966
Quantity: 1 cm.
Description: "Theodore Fink: Public Educationalist", prepared by Dr. E.L. French on behalf of the Theodore Fink Memorial Seminar Committee, University of Melbourne, 1966, 15pp. This volume was prepared to commemorate the first ten years of the seminars and to honour Theodore Fink.
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Accession Number: 67 / 4
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Accession Number: 67/4
Name: UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE, FACULTY OF EDUCATION, THEODORE FINK MEMORIAL SEMINAR CONFERENCE
Sex:Group: University, officialActivity:Teacher training institutions
Location:Melbourne
Historical Note: The Diploma of Education was offered from 1903, within the Arts Faculty. In 1919 the first Professor was appointed (John Smyth, Principal of the Teachers' College and lecturer in Education since 1903) and in 1923 the Faculty of Education was established. On the amalgamation of the Melbourne College of Advanced Education with the University of Melbourne on 1 January 1990, the Faculty joined with College to form the University of Melbourne Institute of Education, headed by Professor Kwong Lee Dow as Director. In 1956 a fund was endowed by Mrs. R.D. Elliot and Mr H. Roland Fink to advance Australian education and commemorate their father, Theodore Fink. The income was to be used to conduct an annual seminar in Melbourne on the historical or commemorative study of Australian education, to be called the Theodore Fink Memorial Seminar in Australian Education. The first was held in July 1957.
Earliest Date: 1966
Latest Date: 1966
Access: Open
Quantity: 1 cm.Description: "Theodore Fink: Public Educationalist", prepared by Dr. E.L. French on behalf of the Theodore Fink Memorial Seminar Committee, University of Melbourne, 1966, 15pp. This volume was prepared to commemorate the first ten years of the seminars and to honour Theodore Fink.
Persons:Fink, Theodore
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Places:Melbourne
Subjects:Education
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