John Clifford Valentine Behan
- John Clifford Valentine Behan
Sir John Clifford Valentine Behan (May 8, 1881 – September 30, 1957) was the second warden of the Trinity College of the University of Melbourne, and the first Victorian Rhodes Scholar.
He was educated at Caulfield Grammar School (where in 1895 he was Dux) and University High School in Melbourne, Australia and then at the University of Melbourne where he studied law, and was awarded the Supreme Court Prize for being the top law student in his graduating class. Behan was selected as the first Rhodes Scholar for Victoria in 1904, becoming the first recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship designated for an Australian student. He studied for both his Bachelor of Arts in jurisprudence and Bachelor of Civil Law degrees at Hertford College at the University of Oxford, was admitted to the Middle Temple of the Inns of Court, and was a Fellow of University College at the University of Oxford, lecturing in law and becoming dean of the college in 1914.
Behan as the warden of Trinity College from May 1918 until his retirement in 1946; he had studied at the college on a scholarship during his undergraduate education. He was awarded a Doctor of Laws degree from the University in 1924. He is the second longest serving warden of Trinity College, and was made a Knight Bachelor upon his retirement. [Australian Honours (2006). [http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?aus_award_id=1083690&search_type=simple&showInd=true BEHAN, John Clifford Valentine] . Retrieved June 12, 2006.]
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* [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070244b.htm?hilite=caulfield+grammar Australian Dictionary of Biography entry]
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