COLLINS PERSSE, MVO, OAM, MA(Oxon)

COLLINS PERSSE, MVO, OAM, MA(Oxon) Michael Dudley de Burgh 10 November 1931 25 June 2018 Beloved and loving son of the late Dudley and Janette (Collins) Persse and brother of Jonathan Persse and the late Jane (Persse) Robinson; brother-in-law of Georgina (Bassingthwaighte) Persse and David (Beau) Robinson; uncle of Anthony Robinson, Anne Cooper, Juliet Cook, Georgina Somerset, and their spouses, Anne Marie, John, Richard, and Robert; great-uncle of Christopher and Maeve Robinson, Katie and Jess (with Bertrand Almeida) and Justin Cooper, Annabel Collins Cook, and Benjamin, Macartney, and Gemma Somerset; grandson of Charles and Violet (Parry-Okeden) Persse and William and Gwendoline (Roberts) Collins; cousin of many including Gracia (Parry-Okeden) Baylor, Susan Parry-Okeden, Penelope (Derham) and Nicholas Alexander, John Aiken, Susan (Persse) Zoomers, the late Margaret (Persse) Hockey, the late Elizabeth Parry-Okeden, and the late Alison (Ralston) Whiley; godfather of 23; friend of very many including Kate Baillieu, Charles and Primrose Bright, Peter Gray, Jari and Bobbie Hryckow, Edward Cabot, Mark Jamieson, John Fairfax, Mark McGinness, Andrew and Toni Purcell, the late Sir James and Lady Darling, and his early mentors, Jessie McDonald (nurse), Lucy Morgan (governess), Norman Connal (headmaster of Toowoomba Prep), and Denys Hake (headmaster of The King s School, Parramatta). From November 1955 until his death a member of Staff and friend to many at Geelong Grammar School in an evolving series of capacities including Head of History and (from 1994) Curator of the School. Esperance en Dieu (Persse family motto). Christus nobis factus Sapientia