Address: Northwood, York Bay, Eastbourne. Son of Robert Elijah and Sarah Bannister. A pupil at Wanganui Collegiate, where he was senior prefect and cricket captain in his final year, 1889. He also performed well in the university scholarship examinations that year and went to Canterbury University College, where he gained an M. A. and the Senior University Scholarship in Greek. He later married Dorothy Hursthouse (b 1892) and returned to the school as a teacher, and was acting headmaster in 1916. (Information from "The Wanganui Collegian", "Wanganui Collegiate School Register" and from the Library's Biographies Index)
Bannister, James Edgar John, 1871-1946
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Harrison album
Date: 1905-1913
By: Harrison, Charles Fancourt, -1964; Denton, Frank James, 1869-1963
Reference: PA1-o-217
Description: Includes photographs of Wanganui Collegiate School, with group portraits of sports teams, cadets, prefects, and one photograph of five school-masters. In most cases people are identified by surname and initials. Not all names have been listed in the name headings. Scenes of the school include exterior views of the old school, foundations of new buildings, an image of plans for the new chapel, and interior views of the chapel. From Wanganui Collegiate School, C F Harrison went to Caius College, Oxford; during that time he joined King Edward's Horse, Cambridge Detachment (King's Oversea Dominions Regiment), the album showing group portraits of members of the regiment. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with greenish-grey cloth cover, tan leather spine; 25.5 x 32.0 cm
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Goldsworthy, Russell R, fl 1993-1995 : Papers re Wanganui Collegians' activities
Date: 1890, 1993-1995
By: Goldsworthy, Russell R, active 1993-1995
Reference: MS-Papers-5434
Description: The collection comprises two letters from M H Bannister to Goldsworthy re an expedition by Wanganui Collegiate Old Boys to the summit of Ruapehu in 1890, and a copy of the original account by William S Marris, one of the party. A covering letter by Goldsworthy gives additional details about the party. Source of title - Supplied title Relationship complexity - Published version in `Wanganui Collegian' 26 April 1890, pp10-14, as `Five lunatics: schoolboys on the swag' by E W Andrews Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescript (photocopies)
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Andrews, Edward Weston d 1915 :Sketchbook. Ruapehu, 1890.
Date: 1890
By: Andrews, Edward Weston, -1915
Reference: E-061
Description: The sketchbook and diary notes at the end record a ten-day tramp of a group of Wanganui Collegiate boys, including the artist, a master at the school, from Wanganui to climb Ruapehu and return. The sketches include views of Mt Egmont from Oeo and Paritutu, Tongariro, Ngauruhoe and Ruapehu, Mangawhero Falls, Karioi, the interior of Waihohono hut, Waimarino Plains and two boys greeting a Maori man. This trip is written up in "The Wanganui Collegian", no. 22, April 26 1890, p. 11-14, signed E. W. Andrews. The group were "our senior prefect and cricket captain Bannister, and Marris who won the 1st Junior Scholarship this year, P. Marshall, well known as an old identity, H. Montgomerie, leader of our rugby scrummage, and myself...". The group met at Aramoho railway bridge just out of Wanganui on the morning of 18 January 1890, reaching "R. Montgomerie's station" Taukoro on the first evening. They followed the Mangawhero River, via the pa of Otuku and turned off at the Parapara Valley to view the waterfalls. They passed the pa of Parapara the next morning and reached Karioi the next day (21 January). The following day they reached Waihohono on the Rangipo desert and the ascent of Ruapehu took place on 23 January. Two of the party then returned to Wanganui (Bannister and Montgomerie), while the other three went on to Tokaanu, "where Marris and Marshall stayed for a day or two exploring, while I whose school engagements were of an inconveniently pressing nature, went round by Rotoaria and Okotu through the Waimarino Plain and so to Karioi by the western side of the mountain, and back to Wanganui by Field's Track." Inscriptions: Album page - Jan. 1890. E. Andrews. Wanganui High School. [plus insriptions on each page and the text of the diary at the end of the volume] Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: 9 pencil on paper, and diary notes, page size 131 x 182 mm. Buckram cover, ¼ black morocco. Sketch book in gold lettering on front cover Provenance: Unknown. The sketchbook has a pencil inscription inside its front cover: Collins, Glasgow, 1/6, probably the price for the album. Transfers: For another account of this trip by one of the participants see Sir William Marris' description transferred to Manuscripts & Archives, Dec 95.
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Andrews, Edward Weston, d 1915 :Diagrammatic view of one side of whare at Waihohoma on ...
Date: 1890
From: Andrews, Edward Weston d 1915 :Sketchbook. Ruapehu, 1890.
Reference: E-061-006
Description: Four schoolboys and their teacher huddled under blankets inside a wooden hut. A sunhat hangs on the wall, a kettle or waterbottle on another wall. The young men are identified, from left as P M [Patrick Marshall]; W M [William Marris]; E W [Edward Weston]; H M [Hew Montgomerie]; and E B [James Edgar Bannister] 'Waihohoma' seems likely to be Waihohonu Hut Extended Title - Diagramatic Waihohonu Inscriptions: Album page - bottom right - title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and pastel on sketchbook page, page size 132 x 181 mm.