Father James Cheong (1871-1941)

Leeper Library, Trinity College
The University of Melbourne
July 2001

photographs and letters
courtesy of
Revd Dr Colin Holden
Archives, St Peter's Eastern Hill

James Cheong enrolled in Trinity College in 1891 and held the prestigious Perry Scholarship. He was a distinguished scholar of the University of Melbourne. He went on to teach at Queen's School, Hong Kong from 1899-1900, and in 1903 was a theology student at Cuddesdon Theological College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1906 in Melbourne and was a much loved priest at St Peters, Eastern Hill until he died in 1941.

A warm and compassionate man, he touched many people in Australia "who would be ever grateful to James for the spiritual help and fresh vision" that he brought to all that he did.

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Father James Cheong memorabilia || The letters of Father James Cheong || Other Documents

Above: Ammianus Marcellinus, 1533, belonged to Father Cheong, and was bequeathed to Trinity College by Nance Livingstone Cheong in 2001. The volume was originally purchased from the library of the British historian, Edward Gibbon.

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