Alexander Leeper, who first arrived in Melbourne in 1869 and died there in 1935, was one of a group of Irishmen - Protestants, graduates of Trinity College, Dublin - who were very influential in Australia between those years.

One of Australia's great controversialists, Leeper was most widely known for the issues he fought and for the establishment of Trinity College at the University of Melbourne.

Leeper was a combative man, but was also warm and charming, an intense and complex personality, torn by an obsessive conscience and impeded by a massive hypochondria."

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Professor John Poynter was a student of Trinity College in 1948-50, Dean of the College (1953-1964) and Joint Acting Warden (1964-5). Appointed Ernest Scott Professor of History in the University of Melbourne in 1966, and a Deputy Vice-Chancellor in 1975, he is now, in retirement, a Professorial Associate in the Australia Centre.

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