Michael Aikman

Alexander Michael Hirst Aikman, known as Michael, was an Australian rower and educationalist, born on 9 September 1933 and died on 16 February 2005. He rowed in the bow seat of the Australian eight that won the bronze medal at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, after rowing for Ormond College and the University of Melbourne and in the Victorian King's Cup crew that won in 1956. He later taught science and chemistry, was headmaster of The Scots School in Bathurst from 1966 to 1973, and was headmaster and later principal of Haileybury College in Melbourne from 1974 until 1998. He was inducted into the Rowing Victoria Hall of Fame in 2010.