Preceded by John Price Name Grenfell Price Nationality Australian Party United Australia Party | Succeeded by Thomas Sheehy Profession Academic | |
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Born 28 January 1892
North Adelaide, South Australia ( 1892-01-28 ) Alma mater University of Adelaide
Oxford University Died July 20, 1977, North Adelaide, Australia Spouse Kitty Pauline Hayward (m. 1917) Books White Settlers and Native Peoples: An Historical Study of Racial Contacts Between English-speaking Whites and Aboriginal Peoples in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand Education University of Adelaide, Magdalen College, Oxford, University of Oxford | ||
Political party United Australia Party | ||
Sir Archibald Grenfell Price CMG FRGS (28 January 1892 – 20 July 1977) was an Australian geographer, historian and educationist.
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Life
Price was born at 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 the St Peter's College, Adelaide. 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. 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. In 1933 he was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) for his services to education.
In May 1941 Price won a by-election for the seat of Boothby in the Australian House of Representatives and held the seat until the 1943 election. In 1973 became an honorary member of the American Geographical Society. He died in North Adelaide. His elder son Charles (b. 1920) became a noted demographer at the Australian National University.