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Roland St John
Roland Tyrwhitt〔Pronounced 'tirrit'. Roland's father's second-cousin Cmdr (later Admiral Sir) Reginald Tyrwhitt RN led a British fleet to victory in the Battle of Heligoland Bight (1914) (the first naval battle of WWI) shortly before Roland was born.〕 StJohn〔Pronounced 'sinj'n', a Norman-French name. See ''Debrett's Peerage'': 'St John of Bletso'〕 MBE (1914–1991) was Registrar of the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane from 1946 to 1974. The diocese comprised some 300 churches and covered an area of half a million square kilometres, reaching north to Bundaberg and south and west to the State borders.〔Anglican Diocese of Brisbane website http://www.anglicanbrisbane.org.au/www/index.php〕 As its 'business manager' he restored its finances, improved its administration and guided it through a challenging period of expansion. As a leading Anglican layman his influence reached beyond the diocese to the wider Church.
==Early life==
Born at Boggabri NSW on 16 December 1914, 'Roley' was one of eight children of the Revd Canon Frederick de Port St John, a Church of England parish priest in rural NSW, and his wife Hannah Phoebe Mabel (Pyrke). Roland's uncle Revd Harold B St John was also a Church of England parish priest. Roland's younger brother was Edward St John QC MP. Their grandfather Henry St John was a pioneer of Rawdon Islands NSW and a nephew of Revd Ambrose St John, who converted to Roman Catholicism with his friend and colleague Cardinal John Henry Newman. Henry St John was a great-great grandson of the 10th Baron St John of Bletso.〔''Debrett's Peerage'' St John of Bletso〕
Educated at Armidale High School, Roland gained the degrees of BEc (Syd) and BA (Qld) by part-time studies and was an Associate of the Australian Society of Accountants. In accounting exams in 1952 he topped Australasia in Final Auditing with a mark of 94%. After working at Bank of NSW branches in several country towns he was transferred to the Bank's head office in Sydney. At the outbreak of war in 1939 he enlisted in the University Regiment. When the war extended to the Pacific in 1941 he volunteered for the 2nd AIF and served in Irian Jaya and New Britain, reaching the rank of Captain before returning to civilian life in 1946.〔Roland St John ''Memories at Sunset'', 1991 p.iii〕
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