About Peter Hollingworth
Peter John Hollingworth (10 April 1935 – 19 May 2026) was an Australian bishop who served as Governor-General of Australia from 2001 until his resignation in 2003. He had previously held the position of Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane from 1989 to 2001. == Early life and education == Hollingworth was born on 10 April 1935 in Adelaide, South Australia, to John Hollingworth and Rosaline Geue. His father, an engineer, had grown up in British India and moved to Australia after the First World War, while his mother was from "one of South Australia's pioneering families". In 1941 the family moved to Melbourne, where Hollingworth's father had been recruited to join the Department of Aircraft Production. They settled in the suburb of East Malvern, where Hollingworth attended Lloyd Street State School and Murrumbeena State School. He later studied at Scotch College in the Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn. He left school at the age of 16 and began a cadetship in the share registry department of the mining company BHP, while also studying accounting at night school. Hollingworth was conscripted for national service in 1953 and, after basic training at the Royal Australian Air Force base at Point Cook, he began working in the chaplain's office. Having discerned a call to ordained ministry, he enrolled at the University of Melbourne in 1954, residing at Trinity College as a member of its school of theology.
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