S. J. Hoban
Rev. Samuel John Hoban, best known as S. J. Hoban, was an Australian Methodist preacher, director of the Central Methodist Mission in Sydney, followed by that of Melbourne.
History
Hoban was born in Little Bendigo, Ballarat, one of five children of Pierce Hoban (c. 1835 – 19 January 1865Recognition
- The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on him by Victoria University, Toronto, Canada, in 1926.
- The S. J. Hoban Memorial Chapel, at the Lonsdale Street entrance of Wesley Church, Melbourne, was opened on 4 November 1933. One of the windows was donated by his wife and family; another by the family of George Tippett. It was the first addition to Wesley Church since its erection in 1857.
Family
Hoban married Annie Young in 1892. She died 22 July 1898.He married again in December 1900, to Mary Louise Elizabeth Holden ; they had two sons and two daughters
- Maxwell Hoban was a medical doctor with a practice in Beechworth, later in Port Melbourne.
- Evelyn Hoban
- Ruth Hoban was director of social studies at Melbourne University. She wrote ADB biography of Selina Sutherland.
- Howard Hoban, also a medical doctor, married Doreen Fitz-Gerald on 14 December 1940.