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[[image:Horton College, Mona Vale, Tasmania.JPG|thumbnail|right|1937 sketch of the school]]
[[File:Horton College, Tasmania, advertisement, The Argus, Melbourne, 16 July 1880.png|thumb|Display advertisement for Horton College, Tasmania, in: The Argus, Melbourne, 16 July 1880]]
'''Horton College''' was a 19th-century [[Independent school#Australia|independent]] [[Wesleyanism|Wesleyan
Its first headmaster was [[John Manton]], and for many years its motto was the {{lang-la|Nil sine magno labore}} (Nothing without great exertion). This was replaced by the {{lang-la|Perseverantia Palman Obtinebit}} (Perseverance will win the prize). The school building itself was an impressive red brick structure, designed by [[William Archer (architect)|William Archer]]<ref name=adb>{{cite book |author=G. T. Stilwell |title=Australian Dictionary of Biography |volume=3 |year=1969 |publisher=[[Melbourne University Press]] |url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/archer-william-1460 |accessdate=July 17, 2013}}</ref> and its ruins were listed on the (now-defunct) [[Register of the National Estate]] from 1978.<ref>{{cite web|title=Horton College Remains, Midland Hwy, Ross, TAS, Australia|url=http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/ahdb/search.pl?mode=place_detail;place_id=13158|website=environment.gov.au|publisher=[[Department of the Environment (Australia)|Department of the Environment]], Commonwealth of Australia|accessdate=31 December 2014}}</ref>
==Closure==
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==Notable alumni==
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* [[Robert Kermode|Kermode family]]<ref name="grandoldmemories"/>
* [[William Lyne]], Premier of New South Wales<ref>{{cite book|last1=Turner|first1=Ken |editor=Clune, David|title=The Premiers of New South Wales 1856-1901 : Volume 1, 1856-1901|date=2006|publisher=Federation Press|location=Leichhardt, N.S.W.|isbn=9781862875500|page=209|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a9K508fKw-oC&dq=Horton+College%2C+Ross&pg=PA209}}</ref>
* [[Alexander Malcolm (politician)|Alexander Malcolm]]
* [[Albert Solomon]]
==Notable teachers==
* [[Samuel Fiddian]], mathematics master,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39184067 |title=Miscellaneous |newspaper=[[South Australian Register]] |volume=XXXII |issue=6746 |location=South Australia |date=20 June 1868 |access-date=30 December 2016 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> later first principal of [[Prince Alfred College]] in [[Adelaide]], [[South Australia]] and of [[Creswick Grammar School]], [[Creswick, Victoria]]
* [[Claude Hermann Walter Johns]] (second master, 1880-84), later lecturer in [[Assyriology]] at [[Cambridge University]] and in Assyrian at King's College, London<ref>C. H. W. Johns, [https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Babylonian_and_Assyrian_Laws_Contracts_a.html Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters], Dodo Press, 1909, google.com Retrieved 16 April 2024.</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://catalogue.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/item/?id=688160 Photo of the
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