Frank Kirby (footballer)
# Frank Kirby (footballer)

Frank Gordon Kirby (22 September 1885 – 20 March 1963) was a teacher, librarian and an Australian rules footballer in Victoria, Australia.

## Football career

Kirby played with University in the Victorian Football League (VFL). After making a solitary appearance against Fitzroy in University's first VFL season, he commenced his career as a librarian and teacher.

## Academic career

Kirby worked as a librarian at the Public Library of Victoria. He wrote a report on secondary school libraries in Victoria in 1945, commissioned by the Australian Institute of Librarians (Victorian Branch) and the Australian Council for Educational Research.

He joined the staff of Scotch College in 1920 and was a librarian and teacher there for 35 years until his retirement in 1955. He was passionate about the French language, a member of Alliance Francaise and author of a French language textbook.

He died suddenly in Camberwell in 1963.

## Sources

* ↑ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Melbourne, Victoria: Bas Publishing. p. 484. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
* 1 2 Kirby, Frank Gordon; Australian Institute of Librarians Victorian branch (1945). Libraries in secondary schools; a report on the libraries of secondary schools in Victoria, with suggestions for a post-war plan for school libraries prepared for the Australian institute of librarians (Victorian branch). Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. OCLC 1870940.
* ↑ Nettlebeck, Colin (1984). "Interview with J. G. Cornell" (PDF). Institute for the Study of French-Australian Relations. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 March 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
* ↑ Kirby, Frank G (1944). The student's French grammar with exercises : a complete course for intermediate and senior forms. Melbourne : Macmillan & Company Ltd.
* ↑ "Funeral of Former College Master". The Age. Melbourne. 22 March 1963. p. 8.
