Grenfell Price


Sir Archibald Grenfell Price Order of [St Michael and St George|CMG] FRGS was an Australian geographer, historian and educationist.

Life

Price was born at North [Adelaide, South Australia|North Adelaide] and was the only surviving son of Henry Archibald Price, banker and businessman, and his wife Elizabeth Jane, née Harris. He was educated at the Queen's School, North Adelaide and St Peter's College. After failing the entrance examination for the University of Adelaide, he managed to get into Magdalen College, Oxford, from which he graduated a B.A. in 1914, Dip. Ed. in 1915 and M.A. in 1919. He represented Magdalen in cricket, tennis, hockey, lacrosse and rowing.
Back in Adelaide, Price coached the athletic team of St. Peter's College from 1916 to 1924. On 20 January 1917, he married Kitty Pauline Hayward, daughter of an Adelaide solicitor. In 1921, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. In 1925, he was appointed founding master of St. Mark's College, University of Adelaide, a post he held until 1957. In 1933, he was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George for his services to education.
In May 1941, Price won Boothby by-election|a by-election] for the seat of Boothby in the Australian House of Representatives and held the seat until the 1943 election.
Knighted in 1963 for his services to education, he was one of the founders of the Australian National Library, Canberra and a Founding Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1969. In 1973, Price became an honorary member of the American Geographical Society. He died in North Adelaide.
His elder son Charles was a noted demographer at the Australian National University.

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