Alf Clint
William Alfred Clint (8 January 1906 – 21 April 1980) was an Australian priest in the Church of England in Australia (as the
Early life
Clint was born in 1906 in Wellington, New Zealand, to John William Clint, a commercial traveller, and his wife Lilian Lancaster (née Cawdery).[1] The family moved to Sydney when Clint was a child,[a] and he was educated at Balmain Public School and Rozelle Junior Technical School, although he left early due to his father's unemployment.[2]
Career
Clint worked for the Balmain Co-operative Society Ltd's store.
Clint was then rector of St Mary's, Weston, New South Wales (1935-1941) and St Stephen's, Portland, New South Wales (1941-1948).[9] Both Weston and Portland were mining towns, and Clint had the miners at church on Sunday mornings and at Lenin meetings on Sunday evenings.[10] In 1938 he was granted leave from his parish,[11] and he worked his passage from Australia to England as a pantry boy in order to attend the Labour Party fete at Thaxted in Essex, hosted by the "Red Vicar" of Thaxted, the Revd Conrad Noel.[12]
In 1948 he was invited by the Rt Revd Philip Strong, Bishop of New Guinea, to become co-operative adviser at Gona, Papua.[13] He walked from village to village organising Christian co-operatives.[14] In 1951, suffering from severe dermatitis (which "caused his skin to peel off like a mango"),[15] he was advised against returning to the tropics and became rector of St Barnabas', South Bathurst.[16]
In 1953 he was appointed director of co-operatives at the
By 1959 the Lockhart River co-operative was bankrupt due to the collapse of the
Personal life
Clint was unmarried.[25] He died in 1980; his requiem mass at Christ Church St Laurence was attended by 500 people.[26] He was cremated at Northern Suburbs crematorium.[27]
Legacy
Clint was the subject of an appreciative biography by his friend, the novelist Kylie Tennant, Speak You So Gently (1959).[28] Unusually for a Christian cleric, he was the subject of a sympathetic obituary in the Communist Party of Australia's newspaper, Tribune.[29] A memorial sanctuary bell was installed at St Barnabas', South Bathurst,[30] although the church was subsequently destroyed by fire in 2014.[31] The boardroom at Tranby is named after Clint.[32]
Notes
- ^ 1910 according to the Australian Dictionary of Biography; 1914 according to the Cable Clerical Index.
References
- ^ "Australian Dictionary of Biography: William Alfred Clint". Retrieved 8 November 2021.
- ^ "Australian Dictionary of Biography: William Alfred Clint". Retrieved 8 November 2021.
- ^ "Australian Dictionary of Biography: William Alfred Clint". Retrieved 8 November 2021.
- ^ "Australian Dictionary of Biography: William Alfred Clint". Retrieved 8 November 2021.
- ^ "Project Canterbury: Cable Clerical Index". Archived from the original on 22 May 2022. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
- ^ "Australian Dictionary of Biography: William Alfred Clint". Retrieved 8 November 2021.
- ^ ""SACRIFICE"". The Sun. No. 6806. New South Wales, Australia. 22 October 1931. p. 27 (FINAL EXTRA). Retrieved 10 November 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Australian Dictionary of Biography: William Alfred Clint". Retrieved 8 November 2021.
- ^ "Australian Dictionary of Biography: William Alfred Clint". Retrieved 8 November 2021.
- ^ Cook, Kevin, and Goodall, Heather, Making Change Happen: Black and White Activists talk to Kevin Cook about Aboriginal, Union and Liberation Politics, (2013: ANU E Press), p 62.
- ^ "Project Canterbury: Cable Clerical Index". Archived from the original on 22 May 2022. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
- Daily Examiner. Vol. 29, no. 9375. New South Wales, Australia. 20 August 1938. p. 10. Retrieved 10 November 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Australian Dictionary of Biography: William Alfred Clint". Retrieved 8 November 2021.
- ^ "Australian Dictionary of Biography: William Alfred Clint". Retrieved 8 November 2021.
- ^ "INTERESTING VISTIOR". The Biz. New South Wales, Australia. 14 October 1959. p. 17. Retrieved 9 November 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Australian Dictionary of Biography: William Alfred Clint". Retrieved 8 November 2021.
- ^ "Australian Dictionary of Biography: William Alfred Clint". Retrieved 8 November 2021.
- ^ "Australian Dictionary of Biography: William Alfred Clint". Retrieved 8 November 2021.
- ^ "Australian Dictionary of Biography: John Hope". Retrieved 8 November 2021.
- ^ "Tranby: Who We Are". Retrieved 8 November 2021.
- ^ "Australian Dictionary of Biography: William Alfred Clint". Retrieved 8 November 2021.
- ^ "Australian Dictionary of Biography: William Alfred Clint". Retrieved 8 November 2021.
- ^ "Australian Dictionary of Biography: William Alfred Clint". Retrieved 8 November 2021.
- ^ "Family Notices". Tribune. No. 2143. New South Wales, Australia. 28 May 1980. p. 14. Retrieved 9 November 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Australian Dictionary of Biography: William Alfred Clint". Retrieved 8 November 2021.
- ^ "Australian Dictionary of Biography: William Alfred Clint". Retrieved 8 November 2021.
- ^ "Project Canterbury: Cable Clerical Index". Archived from the original on 22 May 2022. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
- ^ "Australian Dictionary of Biography: William Alfred Clint". Retrieved 8 November 2021.
- ^ "Family Notices". Tribune. No. 2143. New South Wales, Australia. 28 May 1980. p. 14. Retrieved 9 November 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Project Canterbury: Cable Clerical Index". Archived from the original on 22 May 2022. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
- ^ "Western Advocate: "South Bathurst Anglican Parishioners are positive about the future", 3 April 2017". Retrieved 8 November 2021.
- ^ "Tranby: The Rev Alf Clint Boardroom". Retrieved 8 November 2021.