FLYNN, JULIA TERESA (1878-1947), educationist, was born on 24 January 1878 at
West Melbourne, youngest of six children of Daniel Flynn, grain and corn merchant,
and his wife Bridget, née Burke, both Irish-born Catholics. Julia was educated
first in Carlton, then at South Melbourne College and later at Presbyterian
Ladies' College, where she came under the influence of a brilliant mathematics
master, J. P. Wilson. She matriculated in 1893. Three years later she again took
the examination, this time with first-class honours in geometry and
trigonometry.
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A graduate of the University of Melbourne with a reputation as an outstanding mathematics teacher, Julia Flynn was appointed inspector of secondary schools in 1914. She became a senior inspector in the Victorian Department of Education in 1924, and in 1937 was appointed chief inspector of schools. Flynn was a devoted Catholic and a feminist reformer.
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