Sir Archibald Grenfell Price & Kitty Pauline PricePrint Page

The Grenfell Price Lodge was named in appreciation of the service Sir Archibald Grenfell Price, first master of St Mark`s College, and his wife, Kitty Pauline Price.

Sir Archibald Grenfell Price CMG FRGS (1892 – 1977) was an Australian geographer, historian and educationist.  He was educated at the Queens 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 (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, Price became an honorary member of the American Geographical Society. He died in North Adelaide in 1977. 

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