Arnold Buntine

{{short description|Australian rules footballer}}

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| name = Arnold Buntine

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| fullname = Martyn Arnold Buntine

| birth_date = {{birth date|1898|12|27|df=y}}

| birth_place = Caulfield, Victoria

| death_date = {{death date and age|1975|02|26|1898|12|27|df=y}}

| death_place = Kilsyth, Victoria

| originalteam = Caulfield / University

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| statsend = 1918

| years1 = 1918

| club1 = {{AFL StK}}

| games_goals1 = 4 (0)

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Martyn Arnold Buntine (27 December 1898 – 26 February 1975) was an Australian headmaster and Australian rules footballer who played for the St Kilda Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).{{cite book |title=The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 |last1=Holmesby|first1=Russell|last2=Main|first2=Jim |year=2014 |edition=10th |isbn=978-1-921496-32-5 |publisher=BAS Publishing |location=Seaford, Victoria |page=112}}

After retiring from football he attended Trinity College while at Melbourne University, before obtaining a PhD in Education from the University of Edinburgh. Returning to Melbourne he started teaching at Scotch College, Melbourne before becoming the headmaster of Camberwell Grammar School. In 1931 he moved to Western Australia to be the headmaster of Hale School.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article85471283 |title=Personalities in the World of Sport |newspaper=The Daily News |volume=LIV |issue=18,519 |location=Western Australia |date=25 July 1934 |accessdate=26 May 2016 |page=2|via=National Library of Australia}} During World War II he served in the 2/28th Battalion as a captain, serving in Tobruk and Syria. Promoted to major and then lieutenant-colonel he was put in charge of the 2/11th Battalion. In 1944 he returned to Hale School, before being appointed headmaster of Geelong College in 1945.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article78759256 |title=Dr. Buntine For Geelong|newspaper=The Daily News |volume=LXIII |issue=21,806 |location=Western Australia |date=24 February 1945 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}

Buntine was the son of educationalist Walter Murray Buntine (1866{{ndash}}1953){{cite book |author= |title=Biography - Walter Murray Buntine - Australian Dictionary of Biography |date= |work= |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |chapter=Buntine, Walter Murray (1866–1953) |chapter-url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/buntine-walter-murray-5423 |accessdate=25 April 2016}} of Caulfield Grammar School, for whom the Buntine Oration is named. He was married to Gladys (Jim) Buntine, who was the Australian Chief Commissioner of Girl Guides from 1962 until 1968.{{cite book |author= |title=Biography - Gladys Selby (Jim) Buntine - Australian Dictionary of Biography |date= |work= |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |chapter=Buntine, Gladys Selby (Jim) (1901–1992) |chapter-url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/buntine-gladys-selby-jim-18558 |accessdate=25 April 2016}} Their son was educationalist Robert Buntine of The King's School and Newington College.[http://gnet.geelongcollege.vic.edu.au:8080/wiki/BUNTINE-Robert-Walter-1929-2014.ashx BUNTINE, Robert Walter (1929–2014)] – Heritage Guide to The Geelong College Retrieved 30 May 2016.