St Clair Donaldson

St Clair George Alfred Donaldson (11 February 1863 – 7 December 1935) was an English Anglican bishop. He was the first Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane, Australia. Early life Donaldson was the third son of Sir Stuart Alexander Donaldson and his wife Amelia née Cowper and was born in London, England. The family lived at Bère Court near Pangbourne. Donaldson was educated at Eton, where he rowed in the eight, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He narrowly missed representing Cambridge in the 1883 boat race, when having been selected stroke of the crew he fell ill and was forbidden to row by the doctors. At Eton, he was co-editor, with M. R. Jamesof the Chronicle, for which they were paid fifteen shillings every two weeks. Their tutor H. E. Luxmoore took them to Florence during the spring holidays of 1882. His younger brother, Seton, died in a boating accident that same year. After graduating from Eton, he, his brother Stuart, M. R. James and Sydney James (priest) travelled to Switzerland. In the spring of 1883, he travelled to Greece with M. R. James, Sydney James (priest), Walter Durnford, and Cecil Baring, 3rd Baron Revelstoke. He graduated B.A. in 1885 with a first class degree in classics and obtained a first class in theology in 1887.