Hall). 'By the beginning of the school year of 1891 the new site was complete and ready to commence functioning as the permanent home of P.L.C. The total cost of the new buildings and renovations was £25,000.' The new Presbyterian Ladies College at Croydon was officially opened in March 1891 by the Governor of New South Wales. The main college building, comprising Boarding House, Dining Room and College Hall, "adjoins the residence of the principal, Dr John Marden" (Shubra Hall) and stands "in the midst of a spacious block of ground, six acres in extent, which is being laid out in lawn tennis courts, gardens, etc, in an elevated position, it forms, with its tower high, a very conspicuous feature in the landscape". The Australian Dictionary of Biography entry on "John Marden" mentions that he trained as a lawyer but was "keenly interested in horticulture" and "laid out beautiful gardens and playing fields" for the Croydon campus. He did the same again when he moved to Pymble in 1916 after were purchased for an additional campus for the school. An anonymous historical account describing the fostering of science at PLC in part through the nurturing of the gardens explains:√ An anonymous short history of Shubra Hall dating from around 1986 describes the different uses of the mansion within the school: Anthony (Tertius) Horden III, (built and occupied Shubra Hall 1868–1882) Anthony Hordem III (known as Tertius) was born on 24 July 1842 at Melbourne, the eldest son of Anthony Hordern (1817–1876). He was educated in Sydney, Melbourne and at Rugby, England. By 1869 his father (also Anthony) had taken him and his brother into partnership in the family department store business, which was then vigorously expanded. In 1878 "The Warehouse" and the "Palace Emporium" were constructed and commenced operation. According to the Bulletin, 22 May 1880, they "fairly ruled the retail trade of the metropolis and the colony in general". They adopted the trade-mark of the spreading oak over the motto, 'While I live I'll grow'. In 1881–82 the company opened offices in Britain, the Continent, America and China. In 1883 Tertius proposed a scheme to the Legislative Council of Western Australia called the Beverly-Albany Railway Scheme, for which he formed a syndicate in England to construct a railway line and encourage migration. Tertius died at sea from brain fever on 16 September 1886 on his return voyage to Australia,