Letter from the Staff of the Municipal Technical Institute, Belfast, to the family of Captain Francis C. Forth 3 March 1919 Letters 1916-1923 John Earls

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Tribute to Francis C. Forth from the members of staff of the Municipal Technical Institute.

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland Belfast College of Technology, BCT/8/2/43 https://letters1916.ie/item/5308 English John Earls 1919-03-03 the family of Captain Francis C. Forth 1934 World War I (1914-1918) World War I (1914-1918)

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 3rd March, 1919 MUNICIPAL TECHICAL INSTITUTE, BELFAST The late Captain Fras. C. FORTH. Tribute from the Members of the Staff of theMunicipal Technical Institute. A meeting of the Members of the Staff of the MunicipalTechnical Institute was held on Monday evening the 3rd inat., totestify to their sorrow at the death of the late Principal,Captain Forth, and to express their sympathy with the Members ofthe bereaved family. The chair was taken by Professor Earls, B.A. Vice-Principal of the Institute. There was a very full attendance of Members of the Staff.Letters of apology from Members who were unavoidably unable to bepresent were read by Mr. H. H. Dunlop, Registrar. Professor Earls in announcing the object of the meetingstated that there had been held in the past many meetings of theStaff, and on at least one other occasion a meeting of a somewhatsimilar character - on the occasion of the death of the lateSir Jas. Henderson, the first Chairman of the Library and TechnicalInatruction Committee. But no meeeting had ever before been heldto mark an event which had so intimately and profoundly affectedthe Staff and indeed the whole life of the Institute as had thedeath of its first Principal Captain Fras. C. Forth, whose mind isexpressed in every room of this immense building and in everyfeature of its complex and afficient organisation. The following Resolution was submitted to the Meeting -RESOLVED That we the Members of the Permanent Staff andthe Occasional Teachers of the Municipal Technical Institute,Belfast, in meeting assembled, place on record our deep regret andsorrow at the death of Captain F. C. Forth, the late Principal ofthis Institute. Since the inception of the Technical Instruction Schemein Belfast more than eighteen years ago he has unaparingly devoted -1- his outsanding powers of organisation, his wide knowledgeof educational affairs and his brilliant mental gifts to theplanning, erecting, equipping and organising the greatInstitute which will always be his chief and most fittingmonument. We also wish to express our admiration for, andappreciation of, the impartiality, justice and considerationwhich he always evinced in his dealings with the Staff. We respectfully extend our most sincere sympathyto his widow and family in the great bereavement they havesustained. In proposing the Resolution Mr. Dawson, Headmasterof the School of Art, referred to his association with CaptainForth from the very beginning of the work of the Institute.He spoke of the numerous and manifold difficulties which hadto be overcome in the early stages of the develpoment of thescheme of technical instruction and of the great pleasure ithad been to Captain Forth to see the work develop and prosper.He also referred feelingly to the great loss that had beensustained by Captain Forth's family. Mr. Joe Boyce in seconding the Resolution saidthat he had been on eof the first teachers to be engaged on theOccasional Teaching Staff of the Municipal Technical Institute,and he testified to the great loss which education in Belfastand throughout Ireland had sustained by Captain Forth's death.He also referred Captain Forth to those who were privileged to beassociated with him in the great work of the Technical Institute. The following also paid tributes of respect to thememory of the late Principal - Mesare W. Davidson, J. H. Cox,G. Gayton, J. Johnston and R. T. Hewitt. The Resolution was passed in silence the membersstanding. After which the meeting concluded. John Earls Letter from John Earls 28 February, 28 February 1919Letter from John Earls to the Staff of the Municipal Technical Institute, Belfast 1 March, 1919Letter from the Staff of the Municipal Technical Institute, Belfast, to the family of Captain Francis C. Forth 3 March 1919Resolution passed by the Staff of the Municipal Technical Institute, Belfast 3 March, 1919Letter from John Earls to the staff of the Municipal Technical Institute, Belfast, 11 March 1919Letter from Vincent G. Forth to Prof. John Earls, 5 March 1919Letter from John Earls to Mrs. Forth 3 March, 1919Letter fron John Earls to Mrs. Forth 7 March, 1919Letter from John Earls to Mrs. Forth 18 March, 1919Letter from John Earls to J. H. Reynolds, 11 March 1919Letter from John Earls (Vice-Principal) to the Staff of the Municipal Technical Institute, Belfast 1 March, 1919Letters from J. H. Reynolds to John Earls, 20 March 1919Letter from J. H. Smith to John Earls 3 March, 1919Letter from Miss L. A. Geale to John Earls 2 March, 1919Letter from Matilda McRee to John Earls, 3 March 1919Letter from R.R. Clark to John Earls, 2 March 1919Letter from J. C. Ward to John Earls, 2 March 1919Letter from John Earls to Mr. R. J. Woods, 11 March 1919