CARMICHAEL, HENRY (d.1862), schoolmaster and educational theorist, matriculated in 1814 at St Andrew's University, Scotland (M.A., 1820). He worked in London as a private tutor, and in 1830 John Dunmore Lang engaged him as a teacher for the Australian College in Sydney. Lang, Carmichael and three other licentiates of the Church of Scotland opened the college soon after their arrival in the Stirling Castle in October 1831. Carmichael, when his contract expired, set up his own school in Sydney, the Normal Institution (1834-38). Lang had intended Carmichael to be editor of the Colonist, but now broke off relations with him; Carmichael himself appears to have turned down the editorship of the Sydney Monitor and in turn failed to obtain the secretaryship of the Australian Patriotic Association, whose cause he strongly supported. He published Hints Relating to Emigrants and Emigration (London, 1834), which ran to three editions. At ...

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Australian Dictionary of Biography