Grenfell Price

Grenfell Price

Sir Archibald Grenfell Price FRGS (28 January 1892 North Adelaide - 20 July 1977 North Adelaide) was an Australian geographer, historian and educationist.

Life

He was educated at the Queen's School, North Adelaide, and the Collegiate School of St. Peter. 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, he coached the athletic team of St. Peter's College from 1916 to 1924. He was elected in 1921 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. From 1941 to 1943 he was the member for Boothby in the Australian House of Representatives. He was knighted in 1963 for his services to education, and in 1973 became an honorary member of the American Geographical Society.

Family

He was the only surviving son of Henry Archibald Price, banker and businessman, and his wife Elizabeth Jane, née Harris. On 20 January 1917 he married Kitty Pauline Hayward, daughter of an Adelaide solicitor. His elder son Charles (b. 1920) became a noted demographer.

Publications

*"A Causal Geography of the World" (1918)
*"South Australians and their Environment" (1921)
*"The Foundation and Settlement of South Australia 1829-1845" (1924)
*"Founders & Pioneers of South Australia" (1929)
*"The World: a General Geography" (with L. Dudley Stamp, London, 1929)
*"The History and Problems of the Northern Territory" (1930)
*"The Centenary History of South Australia" (member of editorial board, wrote 3 chapters, 1936)
*"White Settlers in the Tropics" (New York, 1939)
*"The First Hundred Years" (1940)
*"What of our Aborigines?" (1944)
*"Australia Comes of Age" (Melbourne, 1945)
*"White Settlers and Native Peoples" (Melbourne, 1949)
*"Northern Australia: Task for a Nation" (Sydney, 1954)
*"The Explorations of Captain James Cook in the Pacific" (New York, 1957)
*"The Winning of Australian Antarctica" (Sydney, 1962)
*"The Western Invasions of the Pacific and its Continents" (Oxford, 1963)
*"The Importance of Disease in History" (1964)
*"The Challenge of New Guinea" (Sydney, 1965)
*"A History of St Mark's College" (1968)
*"The Skies Remember" (Sydney, 1969)
*"Island Continent (Sydney, 1972)

External links

* [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160036b.htm Biography and Photo]


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