Howard Hitchcock

Aside from being Mayor of Geelong, Victoria from 1917 to 1922, philanthropist Howard Hitchcock (1866 to 1932) organized the funding and construction of Australia's Great Ocean Road. [ [http://www.geelongfoundation.org/benefactors Geelong Community Foundation ] at www.geelongfoundation.org] A trust to raise money for the work on the section between Eastern View and Apollo Bay had Councillor Hitchcock as its president. [ [http://www.barwonheads.net/TOWN/gor.HTM Great ocean road ] at www.barwonheads.net] His plan was that the Great Ocean Road would be built by returned soldiers as a memorial to all those who were killed in World War I. [http://www.visitgeelong.org/heritage/historiccharacters.asp#hitchcock]

ee also

*Bright and Hitchcocks

References

# [http://www.geelongfoundation.org/benefactors/ Geelong Foundation web site - "Benefactors: The Philanthropist Howard Hitchcock"] , retrieved July 4, 2006.
# [http://www.barwonheads.net/TOWN/gor.HTM Barwon Heads web site - "The Great Ocean Road"] , retrieved July 4, 2006.
# [http://www.visitgeelong.org/heritage/historiccharacters.asp#hitchcock Visit Geelong web site - "Historic Characters"] , retrieved July 4, 2006.
# [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090317b.htm Australian Dictionary of Bibliography Online - "Hitchcock, Howard (1866 - 1932)"] , retrieved July 4, 2006.