George Long ( bishop ) George Merrick Long CBE ( 5 November 1874 – 9 July 1930 ) was an Anglican bishop who had previously served as a brigadier general in the Australian Army in World War I . He was also involved in the establishment of Trinity Grammar School in Melbourne where he also became headmaster . He was the father of the historian Gavin Long . Early life and career . George Merrick Long was born in Carisbrook , Victoria . He was educated at Maryborough Grammar School . He later matriculated and was awarded the Rupertswood theological studentship to Trinity College at the University of Melbourne , from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1899 and a Master of Arts in 1901 . Long became a deacon on 28 May 1899 and a priest on 10 June 1900 . In 1899 he was posted to the district of Foster in Gippsland . He later returned to Melbourne to become senior curate at Holy Trinity Church , Kew . There he became involved with the foundation of Trinity Grammar School , becoming its headmaster in 1904 . Long served on several diocesan committees and was made a canon of St Pauls Cathedral in 1910 . In May 1911 he was elected bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Bathurst , and was consecrated on 30 November 1911 at St Andrew ' s Cathedral in Sydney . For his services , Long was awarded a Lambeth degree of Doctor of Divinity by the Archbishop of Canterbury . World War I . Long joined the First Australian Imperial Force on 16 November 1917 as an Anglican chaplain . He sailed for London in January 1918 and was posted to the Australian Reinforcement Camp in France in April 1918 . There he was approached by Major General Brudenell White to head the AIF ' s education project . Long accepted the post of Director of Education , AIF on 10 May 1918 and was promoted to lieutenant colonel on 1 June 1918 . Long established himself in London , and drew up a scheme for professional , general and technical training to be conducted by teaching within the AIF and by sending men out to universities , schools and businesses . Officers with instructional experience were selected and assembled for three weeks training at the University of Cambridge . In three weeks at Cambridge , Kelly produced the books Beef , Mutton and Wool , the first of a series of fifteen texts written by Long ' s agricultural section . Post war . When the war ended on 11 November 1918 , Long was forced to put the education scheme into full effect earlier than expected . He was promoted to colonel and then temporary brigadier general on 1 January 1919 . In March , with the scheme fully underway , Long ' s health began to suffer , and in April he handed over control to Major General McNicoll . For his services , Long was awarded honorary Doctor of Letters ( LLD ) degrees by both the University of Cambridge and the University of Manchester , and was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ) . In July 1919 , Long returned to his diocese , where he continued his involvement with education . He restarted All Saints College in Bathurst on a new site , and opened the Marsden School for Girls at Kelso . Long was grand chaplain of the United Grand Lodge from 1923 to 1926 . He drafted a new constitution for the Church of England in Australia , making it independent of the church in Britain , and advocated the White Australia Policy . Long was elected Bishop of Newcastle in December 1927 and was enthroned on 1 May 1928 . Long went to England in March 1930 to attend the Lambeth Conference in London . There he suffered a cerebral haemorrhage and died on 9 July 1930 . His requiem was celebrated by Archbishop Cosmo Lang before 300 bishops and his ashes returned to New South Wales and placed in All Saint ' s Cathedral in Bathurst . He was commemorated in Christ Church Cathedral , Newcastle , where a window of its Tyrrel chapel contains his portrait .