James Ralph Darling

Sir James Ralph Darling, CMG, OBE was the Englishborn Australian Headmaster of Geelong Grammar School , and Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Commission .

Darling was born in Tonbridge, England, the second child of an Englishman, Augustine Major Darling, and his Scottish wife, Jane Baird, ne Nimmo. He was educated at the preparatory school in Tonbridge run by his father, then at Repton School, a boarding school in Derbyshire. He served as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery in France and occupied Germany in 1918 and 1919 before reading history at Oriel College, Oxford. He taught from 1921 to 1924 at Merchant Taylors School in Liverpool, before joining the staff of Charterhouse in Surrey.

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