C. A. Topp

Charles Alfred Topp BA, LLB, ISO, FLS (22 March 1847 – 13 July 1932)[1] was an education administrator and public servant in colonial Victoria, Australia.

[4] Samuel Topp and his family emigrated to Melbourne by the ship Royal Charter, and young Charles Topp was educated at the Church of England Grammar School and the University of Melbourne, graduating BA in 1867 and LLB in 1869 and was elected to the Bar.

In 1888–89 Topp and John Main,[8] senior inspector of Victorian schools, undertook a comparison of Victorian teaching methods with those of New South Wales and South Australia,[9] which report was published in 1889.

On 25 July 1877 Topp married Euphemia Shields, youngest daughter of Dr John Shields of Launceston, Tasmania,[21] so becoming a brother-in-law of Robert Ellery and Paul MacGillivray.

He died at his home in East Malvern and his remains buried in the Boroondara Cemetery.