and was then appointed to St Mary's on the Sturt. Theodore Wilson was expected to leave Tasmania to take over St. John's in May 1845, but cancelled due to his wife's indisposition. He was appointed first principal of St Peter's College (at that time located behind Trinity Church) in January 1848. He resigned in 1851 after a disagreement with the governors and became incumbent of St. John's sometime before September 1851. He resigned in November 1852 and returned to England, where he had a living near Shrewsbury. Edmund Jenkins, 1851-53. John Bagshaw, 1852-55. Bagshaw resigned on grounds of ill-health but in April 1856 accepted the position of principal of the newly opened Nelson College, Nelson, New Zealand. Alexander Russell (1825 – 20 May 1886), 1855-59. Russell was appointed from St. Andrew's Church, Walkerville. After leaving St John's, he founded St Paul's, Pulteney Street, in 1860, and succeeded James Farrell as Dean of Adelaide. J. Stuart Jackson, 1860. Jackson resigned soon after his appointment to take over St Peter's Church, Glenelg. Mr, later the Reverend Henry Howitt (died 1 May 1922), 1860–61 Denzil Ibbetson (1823 – 10 August 1871), 1861-71. Ibbetson was appointed from Burra. In 1871 he retired due to his final illness. T. Jasper Smyth, 1871-73. Smyth was previously at Christ Church, Kapunda. He resigned from St John's in 1873, when he returned to Ireland on receiving news of the death of his father. He had been granted a year's leave but never returned to Australia. Frederic Slaney Poole, 1874-95. Poole resigned on 29 May 1895 to take St. Peter's Church, Ballarat. William Samuel Hopcraft (c. 1848 – 9 June 1908), 1895-1908. Hopcraft appointed Arthur Otto to reorganise the choir along traditional cathedral lines. Rupert Hewgill, 1908-18. Horace Finnis, 1918-27. Finnis resigned in 1927 when he was appointed precentor of St. Peter's Cathedral Egerton Augustine North Ash (29 August 1888 – 1 June 1954), 1927-35. North Ash resigned in 1935 to take St John's Church, Tamworth. Eric Wyllie (1888–1972), 1935-45. Wylie was subsequently the incumbent of St John's Church, Coromandel Valley E.J. Cooper, 1945-64. Don Wallace, 1964–78. He and his wife Gwen were adoptive parents of Harold Thomas, the designer of the Aboriginal flag. Douglas Brown SSM, 1978–82 Dunstan McKee SSM, 1982–? Christopher Myers SSM, 1990–? -- Peter Balabanski Organists G. T. Light (1820–1896) was organist at St John's in 1852 at least. Also an architect, he was for