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Roderick Charles Lack was born in 1949.¹ He died in 1969, at age ~20, in London.¹

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 essentiallyrivate 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 pulic 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 stdent 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 couldccommodate 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, versatiity 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 contnuing 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 Achitecture. 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 ercted 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 fom which they are not likely yet to have recovered. J.R.N.

Rainsford Lack was born in 1901.¹ He died in 1901, at age ~0.¹

Geraldine Olive Lack was born on 3 April 1903 in Cheo Kia Keo, China.¹ She died on 9 May 1997, at age 94, in Sydney, Australia.¹

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 excepƯtional headmistress and an excetionally endearing perƯson,? 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 GovernƯment 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 sixh 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 openƯing 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 fatalƯly lost to educationver the past twenty years.
Geraldine Olive Lack, usuƯally known as Gerry, was born in Chow Kia-Kow, CenƯtral China, of Australian misƯsionary parents who had miraculously survived the Boxer Rebellion. Her parents were poor but intelligent, reƯsourceful, and well educated; her upbrnging gave her a tough mind, a fund of detailed biblical knowledge, confiƯdence that things would ?work out all right?, a strong reliƯgious 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 durƯing 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 reƯturn to Sydney in 1938 precedƯed her becoming head of the English Department at NotƯtingham High School in 1939 and Headmistress of Portsmouth Nrthern 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 beƯcame a place of pilgrimage for anyone interested in the sixth form curriculum and geeral studies. And, because her ideas were not only original and progressive but successƯful, 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 CmƯmonwealth Education ConferƯence of 1964 and the Schools Committee of ITV.
She also lectured in Britain and overseas, the latter activiƯty continuing under the auspiƯces 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 serices to educaƯtion in 1968.
Geraldine Lack's three most striking characteristics were her natural, smiling cheerfulƯness, the rapidity of her conƯversation and the fertility of her ideas. She was a whirlƯwind of invigorating and reƯfreshing 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 everyƯthing good.
She was an educational missionary and pioneer, an academic and a shrewd politiƯcian, roles which were all enveloped in good humour and warmth of personality. Her mixture of tolerance, courtesy, infectious enthusiƯasm, 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 meetƯings as she drove her car: erratic yet fast, reacting inƯcredibly quickly to obstacles and arriving at a destination which only she regared as a foregone conclusion.
She remained unmarried.

Nedham Edward Lack was born on 1 November 1904 in Yenchung, Honan, China.¹ He and Edith Sarah Hannah Taubman were married on 28 March 1936 in Killara, Sydney.¹

Edith Sarah Hannah Taubman was born on 6 September 1900 in Sydney, Australia.¹ She and Nedham Edward Lack were married on 28 March 1936 in Killara, Sydney.¹

Sidney Lack was born in 1906 in China.¹ He died in 1908, at age ~2, in Petersham, Sydney.¹

Edna Winifred Lack was born on 6 November 1913 in Hankow, China.¹ She died on 9 June 1975, at age 61, in Perth, Australia.¹

Noel Humphries was born on 18 September 1908 in Bunbury, Australia. He died on 6 October 1977, at age 69, in Perth, Australia.

Thomas (Rev) Buddle was born on 24 December 1812 in Durham.^1,2,3,4,5,6 He and Sarah Dixon were married on 16 August 1839 in Barnard Castle, Durham, ENG.^1,2 He died on 26 June 1883, at age 70, in Auckland, New Zealand, JGOC has alive in 1892? see notes.^1,2

Thomas (Rev) Buddle was a Wesleyan methodist minister 1839 ON.^1,2 Note that Rev T Buddle took ship Dec 31, 1862 aboard the 'Lord Ashley' for Sydney. Capt. S. Muirhead.(Southern Cross 1 Jan 1863)
Thomas Buddle was born at Durham, England, probably on 24 December 1812, the son of Matthew Buddle, a cordwainer, from a prominent Anglican family, and his wife, Mary Anderson. At the age of 17 Thomas joined the Wesleyan Methodist Church, becoming a lay preacher. In 1835 he was accepted as a probationer, and was ordained by the Wesleyan Methodist Conference at Liverpool in 1839. On 16 August 1839 he married Sarah Dixon at Barnard Castle, Durham; they were to have 10 children. Buddle accepted a call to serve in New Zealand from the general committee of the Wesleyan-Methodist Missionary Society, and he and Sarah departed Bristol in the society's ship, Triton , in September 1839, arriving at Hokianga in May 1840.
Buddle was first stationed at Whaingaroa (Raglan Harbour), but a few months later was dispatched to Porirua; his vessel was wrecked at Kawhia, and Buddle returned to Whaingaroa. In December 1840 he was appointed to Waipa (West). Initially he establishedimself at Honipaka, but when Potatau Te Wherowhero objected that the site was a sacred place, he shifted instead to Te Kopua in May 1841. Between 1841 and 1844 he baptised many leading Maori, and opened schools between the upper Mokau River and Lake Taup. In May 1844, in company with John Morgan, John Whiteley and James Wallis, Buddle accompanied local Maori to the great Waikato feast at Remuera.
Buddle's organisational ability led, in 1844, to his appointment as head of the Wesleyan Native Institution in Auckland, a college devoted to training Maori teachers. For the next 21 years he ministered to Maori and Pakeha congregations in Auckland. He aso served as one of the Wesleyan representatives on the Maori Bible Revision Committee.
Increasingly drawn into church administration, Buddle attended the church's seventh Australasian conference in Sydney in 1861, and was appointed its secretary. He was president of the ninth conference, held at Hobart in 1863. He served on a series of ciruits - Manukau (1854--60), Auckland (1861--65), Christchurch (1866--69), Wellington (1870--72) and Nelson (1873--75) - and was successively chairman of the Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch districts. When the Wesleyan Methodist Church in New Zealand gained its independent conference in 1874, Buddle served as its first president. From 1875 to 1881 he served as founding principal of Three Kings Theological and Training Institution (later Wesley College).
In the early 1860s Buddle's knowledge of the Maori increasingly drew him into political affairs. In May 1860 Thomas Buddle, Donald McLean, John Williamson, Bishop G. A. Selwyn and other missionaries attended a large King movement meeting at Ngaruawahia.uddle's attitude to the movement was expressed in his pamphlet of that year, The Maori King movement in New Zealand. He regarded it as an attempt to repudiate the sovereignty of the Crown, and claimed that Maori possession of large tracts of uncultivated land retarded their progress towards civilisation, fostered covetousness and indolence, and led to intertribal squabbling and wars; he added, somewhat incongruously, that the Treaty of Waitangi should nevertheless be kept in good faith.
In spite of his opposition to the King movement, Buddle did not advocate war, partly because he thought the movement's lack of unity contained within it the seeds of its own destruction. Nevertheless the Wesleyan church, fearing that war would be a setbak to the progress they had made in Waikato, sent Thomas Buddle, James Wallis and Alexander Reid on a mission to detach the Waikato tribes from the King movement. The mission failed, as they found Ngati Maniapoto determined to go to war if provoked. Buddle had also underestimated the determination of the colonists to see Waikato opened up for settlement. He restrained the more aggressive supporters of a military solution among the missionaries, such as John Hobbs, Samuel Ironside and John Warren, although he himself conveyed intelligence to Governor George Grey. By 1864 the Maori saw the Wesleyans as having supported the war, and the growth of the church in Waikato accordingly received a check.
Buddle's knowledge of Maori language, customs and culture resulted in his delivering in 1851 two lectures on 'The aborigines of New Zealand'; and in 1873 two lectures on 'Christianity and colonisation among the Maori', in which he invoked biblical textsnd divine providence in support of European colonisation of New Zealand. Grey drew on his knowledge when compiling his Polynesian mythology .
Buddle was a member of the senate of the University of New Zealand from 1874 to 1880, and a member of the council of Auckland University College. He died in Auckland on 26 June 1883, having helped lay the foundations for an expanding and vigorous colonial Methodism

JGOC has Thos (Rev) BUDDLE aged 71 in 1892 (born abt 1821) with 60 descendants in 1892, arrived Hokianga 1839 on the Triton. He immigrated to may 1840 arrived BOI on the Triton. in 1840.^3,4