D. J. Byard

Byard arrived in South Australia sometime before 1885, when he started teaching at Whinham College,[4] and took evening classes in Senior Latin at the University of Adelaide.

In July 1886 he reopened Hahndorf College (it had closed due to the illness of its headmaster and proprietor T. W. Boehm), with himself and Steer as joint principals.

Byard and Steer had borrowed £1,200 to purchase the college building, and prospects appeared rosy when a typhoid epidemic struck the school and many potential students stayed away.

Byard started an affiliated Hahndorf College Boy Scout troop sometime in or before 1909, in which year the first Christmas camp (jamboree) was held at Milang.

Byard (8 February 1859 – March 1949 at St Leonards, Sussex) married Matilda Eunice Rogers (8 April 1859 – 19 May 1932) c. November 1881 in Woolwich, Kent.