Dominic Fursey Bodkin

Dominic Fursey Bodkin (23 July 1843 – 20 February 1929) was a Christian Brother and a Catholic educator in Australia and New Zealand.

[1] Archbishop of Melbourne James Alipius Goold believed there was a need for religious teachers for schools in his diocese.

[1] Bodkin, John Barnabas Lynch, Patrick Joseph Nolan and Patrick Ambrose Treacy left Ireland for Melbourne to establish the Christian Brothers in Australia, arriving in Port Philip Bay on the Donald Mckay on 18 November 1868.

[6] Bodkin was the first principal of St Joseph's College, Nudgee in Brisbane, Queensland, which opened in 1891.

[5] Aged 85 years, Bodkin died on 20 February 1929 at Clontarf Orphanage, Western Australia.