Descendants of William Bavin

+ 2 M i. William Bavin was born in 1717 and died on 30 Jul 1777 in Scopwick, Lincolnshire at age 60.

Second Generation

2. William Bavin was born in 1717 and died on 30 Jul 1777 in Scopwick, Lincolnshire at age 60.

William married Sarah Gelder on 15 Jun 1747 in St Margaret In The Close, Lincoln. Sarah was born in 1723 and was buried on 7 Sep 1782 in Scopwick, Lincolnshire.

+ 3 M i. William Bavin was born est 17 Jan 1748, was christened on 24 Jan 1748 in Metheringham, Lincolnshire, and was buried on 22 Apr 1829 in Scopwick, Lincolnshire.

4 M ii. John Bavin was christened on 26 Jan 1752 in Metheringham, Lincolnshire.

5 F iii. Sarah Bavin was christened on 5 Apr 1759 in Scopwick, Lincolnshire.

Sarah married Richard Priestly on 20 May 1752. Richard was buried on 22 Mar 1825 in Scopwick, Lincolnshire.

Third Generation

3. William Bavin was born est 17 Jan 1748, was christened on 24 Jan 1748 in Metheringham, Lincolnshire, and was buried on 22 Apr 1829 in Scopwick, Lincolnshire.

William married Ann Dawson on 20 Jul 1775 in New Sleaford, Lincolnshire. Ann was born est 4 Sep 1749, was christened on 11 Sep 1749 in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, and was buried on 24 Mar 1824 in Scopwick, Lincolnshire.

6 F i. Sarah Bavin was born est 25 Jan 1776 and was christened on 3 Feb 1776 in Scopwick, Lincolnshire.

7 M ii. Thomas Bavin was born est 7 Nov 1777 and was christened on 17 Nov 1777 in Scopwick, Lincolnshire.

8 F iii. Jemima Bavin was born est 11 Jul 1779 and was christened on 21 Jul 1779 in Scopwick, Lincolnshire.

9 F iv. Anne Bavin was born est 4 Oct 1781 and was christened on 14 Oct 1781 in Scopwick, Lincolnshire.

+ 10 M v. William Bavin was born est 25 Dec 1783, was christened on 2 Jan 1784 in Scopwick, Lincolnshire, died about 20 Apr 1850 about age 66, and was buried on 29 Apr 1850.

+ 11 M vi. John Bavin was born est 12 Feb 1788, was christened on 22 Feb 1788 in Scopwick, Lincolnshire, died on 16 Mar 1855 in Blankney, Lincolnshire about age 67, and was buried on 21 Mar 1855 in Blankney, Lincolnshire.

Fourth Generation

10. William Bavin was born est 25 Dec 1783, was christened on 2 Jan 1784 in Scopwick, Lincolnshire, died about 20 Apr 1850 about age 66, and was buried on 29 Apr 1850.

William married Elizabeth Staples, daughter of William Staples and Mary Rainsford. Elizabeth was born est 7 Mar 1785, was christened on 17 Mar 1785 in Dunston, Lincolnshire, died about 1 Dec 1866 about age 81, and was buried on 10 Dec 1866 in Dunston, Lincolnshire.

+ 13 M ii. William Bavin was born est 1 Apr 1808, was christened on 10 Apr 1808 in Dunston, Lincolnshire, died about Jun 1875 about age 67, and was buried on 3 Jun 1875 in Dunston, Lincolnshire.

11. John Bavin was born est 12 Feb 1788, was christened on 22 Feb 1788 in Scopwick, Lincolnshire, died on 16 Mar 1855 in Blankney, Lincolnshire about age 67, and was buried on 21 Mar 1855 in Blankney, Lincolnshire.

John married Mary Wadsley, daughter of Sharp and Unknown, on 4 Nov 1827 in Kirton In Holland, Lincolnshire. Mary was born est 11 Oct 1798, was christened on 21 Oct 1798 in S. Kyme, Lincolshire, died on 6 Aug 1896 in Blankney, Lincolnshire about age 97, and was buried on 10 Aug 1896 in Blankney, Lincolnshire.

21 M i. Thomas Bavin was born est 1 May 1828 and was christened on 8 May 1828 in Holland Fen, Lincolnshire.

22 F ii. Jemima Bavin was born est 14 Sep 1829 and was christened on 20 Sep 1829 in Blankney, Lincolnshire.

23 M iii. William Bavin was born est 4 Feb 1831 and was christened on 11 Feb 1831 in Blankney, Lincolnshire.

+ 27 M vii. Charles Bavin was born est 20 Oct 1838, was christened on 27 Oct 1838 in Blankney, Lincolnshire, died on 31 Jan 1870 in Stixwould, Lincolnshire about age 31, and was buried on 3 Feb 1870 in Blankney, Lincolnshire.

Fifth Generation

13. William Bavin was born est 1 Apr 1808, was christened on 10 Apr 1808 in Dunston, Lincolnshire, died about Jun 1875 about age 67, and was buried on 3 Jun 1875 in Dunston, Lincolnshire.

William married Ann Clay on 14 May 1835 in Dunston, Lincolnshire. Ann was born est 1 Jan 1816 in Southwell, was christened on 8 Jan 1816, died about 15 Aug 1869 about age 53, and was buried on 22 Aug 1869 in Dunston, Lincolnshire.

28 M i. William Bavin was born on 20 Jun 1840 in Sheffield and died in 1916 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire at age 76.

29 M ii. John Bavin was born in 1842 in Southwell and died on 15 Feb 1914 in East Retford at age 72.

John married Eve Parrish on 31 Mar 1864 in Manchester. Eve was born est 7 Feb 1841, died about 20 Nov 1886 about age 45, and was buried on 29 Nov 1886 in Dunston, Lincolnshire.

+ 30 M iii. Rev. Rainsford Bavin was born est 25 Oct 1845, was christened on 2 Nov 1845 in Dunston, Lincolnshire, and died in Aug 1905 in Newcastle, Australia about age 59.

27. Charles Bavin was born est 20 Oct 1838, was christened on 27 Oct 1838 in Blankney, Lincolnshire, died on 31 Jan 1870 in Stixwould, Lincolnshire about age 31, and was buried on 3 Feb 1870 in Blankney, Lincolnshire.

Charles married Martha Ann Challand on 21 Jul 1866 in St. Botolph, Lincoln. Martha was christened on 18 Nov 1839 in Arnold, Nottinghamshire, died on 15 Nov 1928 at age 88, and was buried on 17 Nov 1928 in Blankney, Lincolnshire.

36 M i. Charles William Bavin was born on 17 Sep 1867 in Stixwould, Lincolnshire, was christened on 19 Sep 1867 in Stixwould, Lincolnshire, and died on 15 Sep 1933 in Macclesfield at age 65.

+ 37 M ii. John Thomas Bavin was born on 28 Jun 1869 in Stixwould, Lincolnshire, was christened on 5 Jul 1869 in Stixwould, Lincolnshire, and died on 20 Jun 1937 in Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire at age 67.

Sixth Generation

30. Rev. Rainsford Bavin was born est 25 Oct 1845, was christened on 2 Nov 1845 in Dunston, Lincolnshire, and died in Aug 1905 in Newcastle, Australia about age 59.

General Notes: Our readers have already been informed through the medium of the Press Association of the decease of the Rev. Rainsford Bavin. A few weeks ago the fact of his very serious illness was chronicled, anti prayers were offered in the Newcastle churches on his behalf. Just what has been the nature of his affliction has not been stated, except that it involved an operation. The result is, of course, very much to be deplored. For some time the worst has been anticipated, and two or three weeks ago President Sellers deemed it advisable, in consequence of Mr Bavin's continued incapacity, to appoint an acting-Chairman of the District. This death removes from the Methodist Church of the Australian Commonwealth one of its ablest and most strenuous workers.
His ministry began in New Zealand as far back as 1806, and his first appointment was Christchurch. At that time the Christchurch Circuit included the whole of North Canterbury; in fact, there were only two in the province, the other being Timaru. In this wide area he laboured under the superintendency of Thomas Buddle, and with Alexander Reid as the second man. That first New Zealand appointment is still remembered with gratitude and affection by some old Canterbury settlers. Mr Bavin's succeeding appointments were Timaru, Kaiapoi, Wanganui, Nelson, Wellington, Auckland (Grafton Road), and Manuka. In 1883 the New Zealand Conference made him its President. Sixteen years ago he was transferred by the General Conference to New South Wales, and there, as here, he has always been in the front rank of its workers. When its Century Commemoration Fund had to be created he was the man specially set apart for the work, and the splendid manner in which he organised the effort was largely responsible for its success. In 1903 he was President of that Conference also. One remarkable feature of Mr Bavin's power is the way in which, during his last appointment, he has created a great Central Mission at Newcastle. The process of years had not damped the enthusiasm of youth, and with a failing health he gave himself with great ardour to the forward movement in the Church.
To the end Mr Bavin took a keen interest in all that related to New Zealand Methodism.. His transference to another Conference had simply broadened his outlook and intensified his sympathies. This, however, was only natural, seeing Mrs Bavin was a daughter of his first Superintendent, Thomas Buddle. It would be almost impossible to be brought into such close relationship with Mr Buddle and then lose interest in the Church he loved so much and served so nobly. How much of the success of Mr Bavin's ministry should be credited to the lady who sits apart in her widowhood today will never be known ; but certain it is, if the Church could appraise the value of her service, it would never be able to service its debt. It does, however, tender to her and her family its deepest sympathy, and prays that the consolations of Christ may be her comfort and stay. No greater proof could be given of the beauty and sweetness of the home life of Mr and Mrs Bavin than the fact that both a son and a daughter have given their lives to Christ for service on the foreign field. In them it is literally true, “He, being dead, yet speaketh.”

Rainsford married Emma Buddle, daughter of Rev. Thomas Buddle and Sarah Dixon, on 3 Mar 1870 in Wesleyan Church, Christchurch, New Zealand. Emma was born in 1845 and died in Apr 1931 at age 86.

Marriage Notes: BAVIN - BUDDLE - On March 3, at the Weslyan Church, Christchurch, by the father of the bride, assisted by the Rev. A. Reid, the Rev. Rainsford Bavin, Weslyan Minister, of Timaru, to Emma, third daughter of the Rev. Thomas Buddle, of Christchurch. - no card. [NZH 14 March 1870]

+ 38 F i. Edna Sara Bavin was born on 27 Dec 1871 in New Zealand and died on 27 Jul 1923 in Che-Foo, China at age 51.

+ 39 M ii. Sir Thomas Rainsford Bavin was born on 5 May 1874 in Kaiapoi, New Zealand and died on 31 Aug 1941 at age 67.

37. John Thomas Bavin was born on 28 Jun 1869 in Stixwould, Lincolnshire, was christened on 5 Jul 1869 in Stixwould, Lincolnshire, and died on 20 Jun 1937 in Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire at age 67.

John married Grace Durance on 28 Dec 1893 in St. Swithin, Lincoln. Grace was born on 2 Jul 1871 in Stixwould, Lincolnshire, was christened on 5 Jul 1871 in Stixwould, Lincolnshire, and died on 8 Dec 1939 in Hemel Hempstead at age 68.

John married Dorothy Waterfield, daughter of Alfred Waterfield and Unknown.

Seventh Generation

38. Edna Sara Bavin was born on 27 Dec 1871 in New Zealand and died on 27 Jul 1923 in Che-Foo, China at age 51.

General Notes: Note from Autobiography of George Brown
23 July 1888
"Miss Bavin, daughter of Rev. Rainsford Bavin of Onehunga, accompanied us on our voyage. She went to Tonga to take charge of the foreign residents children there. We were very fortunate indeed in being able to secure one who was in every respect so well qualified for the position"

Travel: to Tonga to take charge of children, 23 Jul 1888, Auckland, New Zealand.

Edna married Rev. Charles Nedham Lack, son of Edward Nelson Lack and Emily Hansard, on 23 Oct 1900 in Yokohama, Japan. Charles was born on 19 Dec 1872 in Kroombit, Nr. Gladstone, Queensland, died on 31 Jul 1938 at age 65, and was buried in Rookwood, Strathfield, Sydney.

Marriage Notes: Memoirs by Edna Bavin's son Charles Hansard Lack

Edna Sarah Lack was the daughter of a leading Methodist minister in Sydney. She was the eldest of nine children and when her parents went away, which they did quite frequently because her father went on missions, she was in charge of the whole household. At the age of 17, she went to Tonga for two yearsto keep house for her uncle (her mother's brother in law), the Rev George Brown. Brown introduced Methodism, not only to Tonga, but many other Polynesian Islands, including Bougainville. I was told that when he died, the natives of Bougainville so admired him that his bones were buried on a little island off the coast, which was regarded as sacred.

On her return from Tonga my mother became interested in China. At that time, about 1900, there was a great deal of unrest in China because of the antics of the Empress Dowager - who was covertly encouraging the Boxer rebels. The Boxers were a society dedicated to hatred of all foreigners, and were secretly backed by the Empress Dowager. She decided to become a missionary. So after attending lessons in Chinese, she went out under the aegis of the China Inland Mission, and was sent to southern China, at about the age of 19. She was there for four years and then because of the various illnesses she suffered, which were common in the hot, humid climate, she was sent home.

During this furlough, she was asked to lecture about China, and one day she was giving a lecture at the town hall in Sydney when my father heard her and greatly admired her, and followed her when she was sent back to China. This time she was sent to a walled town in central China called Si-hua, where she established a dispensary. My father took a course in Chinese in Nanking and then went to Hankow up the Yangtze, and became very alarmed because at that time the Boxer riots had started and he feared for my mother's safety.

In Hankow he bought a donkey. This was before there was any railway and he rode the donkey almost as far as Si-hua when it became lame. So he led his donkey into Si-hua disguised in Chinese clothes with a pigtail and black moustaches. He arrived just in time to see the Boxers setting fire to my mother's lodgings. He moved in with the crowd into her house and as soon as possible disclosed his identity to her, and gave her money and told her to get away as soon as possible with her Chinese servant. So she left for Giodi Ko which was the nearest town with missionaries, and he stayed behind to try to salvage some of her goods. However, he was recognised because of his nose. The Chinese waved a broadsword in front of him and said that they would behead him at sunrise. They broke into the dispensary and drank almost everything on the shelves. They had at that time an unusual faith in western medicine, so that the laudanum, castor oil and the quinine and every thing like that was quickly consumed. By the time they had done this, they were in no fit state to behead him, and he got away and joined my mother at Giodi Ko. The Boxers caught up with them there and set fire to the house they were in; my father helped my mother escape through a back window, which opened onto a big pigsty. My father jumped first into the pig mire, followed by my mother, who then led him into the courtyard. She spoke fluent Mandarin and when the owner of the house came out, she said to him in Mandarin “You see, who we are. We are your guests, and you must do what you think right” The building was on fire, so the owner told them to climb a ladder into a hayloft, which they did, and hid under the hay for two days; on the second day, a man came up the ladder, who have been a patient of my mother's at Si-hua. Since he believed that she had saved his life, he had found out where she had gone, and had hired a cart to take them to the river, where he had hired a sampan to take them to Shanghai. He must have used up a lot of his savings to do this. They then travelled on the sampan down river hiding under the floorboards by day, and only coming out at night. It took them seven weeks to travel down the river from Giodi Ko, which flowed into the Grand Canal, and so into the yellow River, the Yangtze, which took them almost to Shanghai.

When they arrived at Shanghai, my mother had agreed to marry my father. So they went to Yokohama, where they got married. They decided to open a mission station in Giodi Ko, but at that time there were still a great deal of hatred of foreigners fomented by the boxers: all sorts of stories were propagated by them; for instance they had seen missionaries giving dolls to their children, and they told the Chinese that the eyes of these dolls were really the eyes of Chinese babies. The only place they could get to live in was a hut next to a Tanners Yard, where the flies were so bad that it was not surprising that their first baby died of gastroenteritis within a few weeks of birth. My father made a coffin, but they couldn't get permission to bury the baby anywhere. So they are hired a sampan, and went up the river, stopping at various places and asking if they could bury the baby; it was a long time before they could do so. They continued up the river looking for a place to continue their mission, until they came to Yen Chung which had no foreigners, and they established a mission there and they were there for 30 years.

The only house my father was able to buy was supposedly haunted. It was brick built, and they settled in there. My father was very innovative; for example he introduced the telephone, the strawberry and the potato. The Chinese don't drink milk - the Chinese race is allergic to milk, so he established a herd of goats from which he got milk, and in many respects he greatly improved the lifestyle of the Chinese who got to know him. He had a workshop where he made all sorts of things, and in the course of time, he established a boys school at the front of his house and a girls school at the back of his house. These were both partly boarding schools. Within our private compound, he built a tennis court and a lovely garden, where he grew a lot of his own vegetables.

He had four more children there, and I was the second youngest. When I was leaving China. I asked him if he had any regrets or any misgivings about the time he had spent there. He said only once, when he and his wife were in that sampan with the baby's body, and he couldn't find anywhere to bury it. And that's when he doubted whether he was really in the right place. When he left enormous crowds went to see him off. He had built a church with accommodation for about 600 people.

My father was a jolly man, he always played with his children. Every Thursday night was games night, when we had Charades, and he would dress up as Dickens characters. He was full of fun. My mother was the kindest person I have ever known. She was very gentle, and throughout my childhood I only remember one occasion when my mother spoke crossly to me, and this is when she took heard me speaking roughly to a servant. She was an accomplished musician, as were all her brothers and sisters.

55 F ii. Geraldine Olive Lack was born on 3 Apr 1903 in Cheo Kia Keo, China and died on 9 May 1997 in Sydney, Australia at age 94.

General Notes: Geraldine Olive Lack M.A. C.B.E.

Curriculum Vitae (date unknown)

Education:
Chefoo School, China 1910-1920
Sydney University 1922-1925
BA in English 1925
Diploma in Education 1926
MA with First Class Honours in School of English Language & Literature 1930

Teaching Experience

(a) In Australia

Junior Lecturer in Phonetics at Sydney Teachers' Training College 1927-1929

English Mistress at Sydney Girls' High School 1929-1930

Head of English Department at Abbotsleigh School 1938-1940

(b) In England

English Mistress at Leeds High School 1930- 38

Head of English Department at Nottingham High School 1940

Headmistress at Portsmouth Northern School 1940-46

Headmistress at Rosebery County School 1946- present.

Following a General Inspection, Rosebery was selected as the school for the site of an Experimental Sixth Form Unit designed by the Department of Education and Science 1967 (See Building Bulletin 41 issued by H M S 0)

Other Experience

Member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Head-mistresses for a number of years. President of the South East Branch of the Association of Headmistresses for two years.
Senior Walter Hines Page Scholar to U S A for 1957.
Only Englishwoman delegate to Commonwealth Education Conference in Ottowa 1964.
Only woman member of Sir John Maud's National Committee enquiring into the Management of Local Government. 1964 - 67.
Member of the South Eastern Examination Council for C S E 1967- present.
Member of the Schools' Committee of the Independent Television Association, 1966- present time.
Member of General Studies Committee of the Schools' Council, 1967- present.
Member of Committee called by H M Inspectorate to advise on the development of courses in the organisation and administration of Secondary schools, 1967- present.

Publications

Articles in the Times Educational Supplement 1961 and 1964.
Lecture printed in Schools' Council Working Paper Number 12.

Lecturing
For a number of years invited to various parts of England as a lecturer in courses for heads of schools and teachers run by H M Inspectorate for the Department of Education and Science.
In the last four or five' years invited as a visiting lecturer by the Institute of Education, London, for courses for students and overseas visitors.
Invited as visiting lecturer by Departments of Education at Nottingham University, York University, and also by various Colleges of Education and Directors of Education in different parts of England.
Invited by the Ministry of Overseas Development to visit Singa as adviser on the teaching of Civics, 1967. This visit has however been indefinitely postponed.
British Council Tour as lecturer for British Council in 1972. Hong Kong, Malaysia, Borneo, Singapore, India (5 weeks in South Madras, Calcutta, Darjeeling, Delhi, Jaipur; etc.), Persia (Teheran, Isfahan, Sheraz), followed by lectures in Sydney, Newcastle, Melbourne.
Invited by New Zealand Government for lecture tour of New Zealand.

GERALDINE LACK, in her 23 years as Headmistress of Rosebery School, Epsom, became a household name in Surrey, and was nationally famous wherever educators met. Her influence flowed from the fact that she was "a quite exceptional headmistress and an exceptionally endearing person," as Lord Redcliffe-Maud put it after she had worked with him as the only woman member of the 1966-69 Royal Commission on Local Government in England.
In the sphere of education she became known for her original and innovative ideas both on the role of the sixth form and on the proper nature of general studies. This was why the Ministry of Education gave Rosebery a substantial grant to create a new sixth form block, where her ideas could be put into practice, and from which before long they spread across the whole country.
She insisted that the opening of pupils' minds, the widening of their intellectual horizons and the enriching of their values and tastes were of far greater importance than amassing A-level results - a 'message which has been fatally lost to education over the past twenty years.
Geraldine Olive Lack, usually known as Gerry, was born in Chow Kia-Kow, Cen China, of Australian missionary parents who had miraculously survived the Boxer Rebellion. Her parents were poor but intelligent, resourceful, and well educated; her upbringing gave her a tough mind, a fund of detailed biblical knowledge, confi that things would "work out all right", a strong religious feeling but no Church commitment.
Educated until she was 17 in mission stations in Honan, and at a boarding school on the coast, which involved three-to-five-day journeys dur the civil war, she taught for two years in China before going to Sydney University for her MA (in English) and a Dip Ed.
From Sydney she went to Europe, where she taught at Leeds Girls' High School and travelled widely. A brief return to Sydney in 1938 preceded her becoming head of the English Department at Nottingham High School in 1939 and Headmistress of Portsmouth Northern School during the war. She moved to Rosebery in 1946.
There she quickly made a name for herself, enlarging the school, establishing with the help of ministry architects and inspectors the new sixth form block, which soon became a place of pilgrimage for anyone interested in the sixth form curriculum and general studies. And, because her ideas were not only original and progressive but successful, she herself was soon in demand for more public work: the Redcliffe-Maud Local Government Commission, the General Studies Committee of the Schools' Council, the Commonwealth Education Conference of 1964 and the Schools Committee of ITV.
She also lectured in Britain and overseas, the latter activity continuing under the auspices of the British Council well after her retirement in 1969. She eventually returned to settle in Sydney in the late 1970s. She had been appointed CBE for her services to education in 1968.
Geraldine Lack's three most striking characteristics were her natural, smiling cheerfulness, the rapidity of her conversation and the fertility of her ideas. She was a whirlwind of invigorating and refreshing vitality. Her conversation ranged from the flippant to the philosophical. Her reading was phenomenal and omnivorous; she was as happy discussing Karl Popper as Nathalie Sarraute. The range of her other interests was no less remarkable - art (she was a painter as well as a critic); travel (Greece was her favourite country to visit); and gardening (there was never a dead season in her garden and it enchanted her friends as much as herself). Through it all, she found delight in everything good.
She was an educational missionary and pioneer, an academic and a shrewd politician, roles which were all enveloped in good humour and warmth of personality. Her mixture of tolerance, courtesy, infectious enthusiasm, and generosity of spirit made people travel, or ask her to travel, miles to hear her speak.
As a headmistress she had clear objectives, a deep sense of values together with strong principles. She chaired meetings as she drove her car: erratic yet fast, reacting incredibly quickly to obstacles and arriving at a destination which only she regarded as a foregone conclusion.
She remained unmarried.

+ 56 M iii. Nedham Edward Lack was born on 1 Nov 1904 in Yenchung, Honan, China.

57 M iv. Sidney Lack was born in 1906 in China and died in 1908 in Petersham, Sydney at age 2.

+ 58 M v. Professor Charles Hansard Lack was born on 27 Jun 1909 in Chi Kong Shan, China and died on 25 Nov 1991 in Coombe Bissett, Wiltshire at age 82.

+ 59 F vi. Edna Winifred Lack was born on 6 Nov 1913 in Hankow, China and died on 9 Jun 1975 in Perth, Australia at age 61.

General Notes: 20 December 1921
April 1922-June 1925

Occupation: Barrister.
Called to Bar: 1897.
Appointed Judge of NSW Supreme Court: 1935.
Alderman Willoughby: 1911-14.
Resigned from National Party: 1920.
Becoming deputy leader of Progressives, stood as Coalition candidate: 1922.
Rejoined National Party, Leader: 1925-32.
Vice-President UAP: 1932-35.
Member Legislative Assembly: Gordon: March 1917-February 1920; Ryde: March 1920-September 1927; Gordon: October 1927-October 1935 (resigned).
Cont. Canterbury: 1898.
Minister of Justice: 20 December 1921.
Treasurer: October 1927-April 1929.
Colonial Secretary: February-April 1929.
Premier: October 1927-November 1930.
President Royal Commissioner Food Supply: 1911-13.

Thomas Rainsford Bavin was born on 5 May 1874 at Kaiapoi, New Zealand, the son of the Reverend Rainsford Bavin, a Methodist minister. The family moved to Sydney in 1889. He was educated at Auckland Grammar School, Newington College and the University of Sydney, where he graduated as a B.A. in 1894 and LL.B. in 1897. He was admitted to the Bar in 1897.

Bavin became an enthusiastic supporter of Edmund Barton's National Federal Party and unsuccessfully stood for Parliament in the 1898 election. Following Federation, he became Barton's private secretary and was also Alfred Deakin's private secretary in 1903-1904. He returned to the Bar in 1904, but remained strongly interested in politics and wrote regular newspaper articles. From 1907 to 1911 he shared with Deakin the writing of the 'Australian Correspondent' column in the London Morning Post. In 1911-1913 he chaired the Royal Commission on Food Supplies and Prices. He became joint secretary of the Universal Service League in 1915.

Bavin lost Liberal pre-selection in 1910 and 1911, but he finally won the Legislative Assembly seat of Gordon as a Nationalist in 1917. He was Attorney-General in the Ministry led by Sir George Fuller in 1922-1925. Following the Government's defeat in 1925, he succeeded Fuller as Leader of the Nationalist Party. In 1927 he became Premier and Treasurer in a coalition ministry. In 1930, with the onset of the great depression, he took drastic measures, including the restoration of the 48 hour week, and in October the Government was defeated by the Labor Party led by J.T. Lang. Bavin continued to be Leader of the Nationalist Party, but in March 1932, faced with a challenge by Bertram Stevens, he resigned as Leader. In October 1935 Bavin resigned from Parliament on his appointment as a Justice of the New South Wales Supreme Court. For the rest of his life he suffered from continued ill-health. He remained, however, a prominent public figure. He was President of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, the Sydney University Law Society, the Sydney Repertory Theatre Society and in 1938 chaired the British Commonwealth Relations Conference at Lapstone. He died at Sydney on 31 August 1941.

Bavin was appointed K.C.M.G. in 1933. He had married Edyth Winchcombe in 1901 and they had a son and three daughters.

+ 61 M ii. John Winchcombe Bavin was born in 1903 and died in Oct 1976 at age 73.

+ 63 F iv. Nancy Ruth Rainsford Bavin died on 27 Nov 2005 and was buried on 7 Dec 2005 in Danehill, Sussex.

Eighth Generation

Nedham married Edith Sarah Hannah Taubman on 28 Mar 1936 in Killara, Sydney. Edith was born on 6 Sep 1900 in Sydney, Australia.

58. Professor Charles Hansard Lack was born on 27 Jun 1909 in Chi Kong Shan, China and died on 25 Nov 1991 in Coombe Bissett, Wiltshire at age 82.

General Notes: Charles Lack travelled from China to Sydney, Australia, penniless, at the age of 16, determined to study medicine. He found jobs as a waiter and a farm labourer and a trainee electrical engineer and for a while he thought of becoming a journalist and learnt shorthand and typewriting. He then worked as a schoolmaster.

In 1932 he entered St Andrew's College, Sydney, to study medicine. At the end of the second year at university he became a member of a team led by Professor Whitridge Davies, travelling to Mount Liebig in central Australia to study the water metabolism of the Aborigines. His broadcasts and his articles in the Sydney Morning Herald, the Sydney Mail and the Manchester Guardian were among the first to urge more sympathetic consideration of the plight of the Aborigines and a reform of the laws applying to the them.
After graduating in 1937, he held a number of junior staff appointments at Sydney Hospital until coming to England in March 1939. He took up a post at Queen Mary's Hospital in the east end of London and it was here that he met his wife Janet, who was a ward sister. After marrying he went into General Practice in Tintagel, Cornwall until the outbreak of war when he joined the RAMC. in which he served until he was invalided out in 1944.

His great friend, Professor Charles Singer, guided him into a career in pathology. On leaving the RAMC in 1944 he became a trainee pathologist at Shrodells Hospital in Watford under the direction of Sir Ashley Miles and the pathologist-in-charge, Herta Schwabacher. He remained there until February 1946. He then moved to the Vaccine Lymph Department of the Lister Institute at Elstree in Hertfordshire where he carried out research into the influence of staphylococci and streptococci on the development of vaccinial lessions. He was especially interested in the application of pathology to clinical problems and it was this interest, together with his experience in clinical medicine and general practice, that fitted him well for this future career in clinical pathology.

He was appointed as the first consultant pathologist to the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, in 1948, transferring to the Institute of Orthopaedics when that was constituted as part of the British Postgraduate Medical Federation. With unselfish thought for what he considered would be best for the Hospital and Institute, he immediately suggested and obtained the formation of independent Departments of Histology and Biochemistry with their own consultant heads on a par with himself. As a clinical pathologist he made highly relevant contributions, both to the design and to the aspects of staff functioning when a new operating theatre block was built. Similar collaboration with the surgical and medical staff in the planning and operation of an isolation unit for sepsis was also invaluable.

He was greatly involved in the design of the new Wellcome Research Laboratories at the Institute of Orthopaedics, Stanmore, which were completed in 1958. He was devoted to postgraduate teaching and the supervision of PhD students. His research on the pathogenicity of staphylococci and mycobacteria, L forms and mycoplasma, cartilage, experimental arthritis and other research activities, led to the publication of a number of original papers. Perhaps his most important contribution to medicine however, was his work on tissue activators of plasminogen and the removal of fibrin. These studies provided knowledge which has ultimately led to the successful treatment of coronary thrombosis and other clinical conditions for which fibrin is responsible.

He served on the University of London Boards of Pathology and Microbiology, of Postgraduate Studies and was a member of the Central Academic Council of the British Postgraduate Medical Federation. In 1955 he was a visiting investigator at the Rockefeller Institute, New York, and in 1962 he was awarded a Senior Geigy Travelling Fellowship which enabled him to visit many research centres in the US.

He retired from the Institute of Orthopaedics in 1971. Appointments to the MRC Clinical Research Centre Harrow, and to St Albans City, Carshalton and the Royal West Sussex Hospitals occupied him from the ages of 62 to 70.

He received a personal Chair of Bacteriology in the University of London in 1969 and a Doctorate of Medicine from Sydney University in 1971. He was a Founder Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, a founder of the Acid-Fast Club and a member of the Council for Science and Society until his retirement.

In 1977 the Institute of Orthopaedics made a permanent acknowledgement of the importance of Charles Lack to its development by naming the main lecture theatre in the new teaching block after him.

Charles was a practical and highly intelligent visionary but he was not an empire builder. At times he was unable to induce influential colleagues to share his vision since their interests did not always coincide. He always aimed, in the broadest context, at the benefit of patients. Charles was much respected by his many colleagues and friends at home and abroad. He finally retired to Coombe Bissett, near Salisbury.

Occupation: Professor of Pathology at Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, London. - a personal chair. Particularly interested in tuberculosis. Founder member of the Acid Fast Club.

Charles married Janet Doreen Steele, daughter of Rev. John Steele and Elizabeth Turnbull, on 23 Oct 1939 in Muswell Hill, London. Jenny was born on 15 Mar 1909 in Swatow, China and died on 22 Feb 2003 in Salisbury, Wiltshire at age 93.

82 M ii. Roderick Charles Lack was born on 29 Mar 1945 and died in 1969 in London at age 24.

General Notes: A very cultured and literary person. Educated at East Barnet Grammar school, Aldenham school and Clare College, Cambridge. Mellon scholarship to Yale, USA, to study architecture.

RODERICK CHARLES LACK died in his sleep early on New Year's day, 1969. Rod Lack made more impact on the College than most people do, even though he seemed almost cat-like in his self-sufficiency. This was because his strongest interests were essentially private ones which, nonetheless, were capable of taking public forms. Outside literature (which he studied professionally, as it were, in the English Faculty) he was an artist; a private artist in his oil paintings (done in a bold, dashing style) but a public one in his designs for stage sets and for the decor of the May Ball. People will remember his enthusiasm and his capacity for working himself to the bone on his current project. Something of the same idiosyncratic vigour showed in other ways. As a student of literature he was never tidy, because he would not, fortunately, subdue his interests to the prudential requirements of the Tripos. Where he was interested, he read, and the weekly essay took second place. In Part 11 he found a course that could accommodate him. Characteristically he increased his load by taking the difficult option of a Part 11 Modern Languages paper in French, but equally characteristically did well both in that subject and in the examination as a whole. His competence, versatility and personality won him a Mellon Fellowship to Yale.
Outside, as well as inside his work, Rod was a rover. He could always be counted on to have planned an unusual vacation. He was prepared to travel widely, hard and alone in pursuit of his interests; for example he slept rough in Turkey as a means of continuing a long-term investigation, begun while still at school, of the mosaics of the region. The Mellon Fellowship provided an opportunity for a radical change of direction and Rod took it. At Yale he acknowledged his true bent by entering the School of Architecture. Those of us who met him at Yale will remember not only the confidence and drive that thrust him on to meet the challenge of his new discipline, but the enthusiasm with which he put his knowledge to practical use as a member of a group that erected a community centre in a depressed area in the Kentucky hills.
Rod came back to Cambridge to continue his architectural studies with every sign of having found his niche. He was lively, enthusiastic and looked physically very well. News of his sudden death so soon afterwards came, to those who knew him, as a shock from which they are not likely yet to have recovered.J.R.N.

59. Edna Winifred Lack was born on 6 Nov 1913 in Hankow, China and died on 9 Jun 1975 in Perth, Australia at age 61.

Edna married Noel Humphries in Mar 1945. Noel was born on 18 Sep 1908 in Bunbury, Australia and died on 6 Oct 1977 in Perth, Australia at age 69.

Ninth Generation

Alastair married Patricia Margaret Reynolds, daughter of Alec Reeve Reynolds and Mary Ellen Frost.

Tenth Generation

Juliette married Patrick McCormack, son of Michael Anthony McCormack and Catherine Campbell.

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