Reginald Heber Roe

Reginald Roe was educated at Christ's Hospital school, London, was head Grecian in 1869, and won a scholarship which took him to Balliol College, Oxford, intending to enter the Church.

[1] He was a good administrator and recruited quality staff; he was thoroughly interested in the problems of education, and, an athlete himself, realized the importance of games and the help they could give in the development of the boy's character.

Roe had visited England in 1900 and reported to the Queensland department of public instruction on state inspection as applied to secondary schools.

Roe did useful work as educational adviser to the government and as vice-chancellor in the difficult early days of the university, but his greatest influence was as the head of a great[peacock prose] school.

In 2022, the University of Queensland established the R.H. Roe Award "to recognise individuals who have made a unique and lasting contribution through their dedicated service to UQ."