[1] The future Bishop of Bathurst (1911–28) and Newcastle (1928-30), George Long was offered the position of warden on the establishment of the college, but declined.
[5] In 1908, two students at St John's decided to form a religious community, the Association of the Divine Call, with three-year vows of celibacy.
Tucker had previously studied for ordination at St Wilfrid's Theological College, Cressy.
The establishment of the association received a lukewarm response from Archbishop Lowther Clarke and, after ordination to the diaconate in 1910,[8] the members of the community went their own ways.
Tucker went on to found the Brotherhood of St Laurence in 1930 and the Food for Peace Campaign in 1953 (which eventually became Oxfam Australia).