Norman Banks
Overview
Australian rules football
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in Melbourne for over 50 years from the 1930s. Banks is also famous as the founder of Carols by Candlelight
Carols by Candlelight
Carols by Candlelight is an Australian Christmas tradition that originated in southeastern Australia in the 19th century and was popularised in Melbourne in the 1930s. The tradition has since spread around the world. It involves people gathering, usually outdoors in a park, to sing carols by...
, but was known in later years for his strongly conservative viewpoint and intolerance of minorities and social diversity in a rapidly changing Australia.
Banks was born at Sandringham, Melbourne on 12 October 1905.
Banks studied for nine years for the Anglican priesthood, first at St Aidan's Theological College, Ballarat, and then at Ridley College
Ridley College (University of Melbourne)
Ridley Melbourne—Mission & Ministry College is a Christian theological college in the parklands of central Melbourne, Australia. Established in 1910, it has an evangelical foundation and outlook and is affiliated with the Australian College of Theology and the Anglican Church of Australia...
, Melbourne.
At age 24, he decided he could not proceed as a priest, and went to work as a car salesman and married Lorna May Gilmore.
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