Old Reds

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This is a list of "Old Reds", former students of the Uniting Church school Prince Alfred College in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.

Rhodes scholars

The Rhodes Scholarship is a postgraduate scholarship for study at Oxford University. As of 2023, PAC has educated 20 Rhodes Scholars throughout its 154 year history. Recipients who attended PAC include:

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Rhodes Scholar || Year
awarded || College at Oxford || Ref
{{sortname|William Douglas|Allen}} (1914–2008)1937New College
{{sortname|Henry|Brose}} (1890–1965)1913Christ Church
{{sortname|Garry Leslie|Brown|nolink=1}}1964Magdalen[https://dof.princeton.edu/about/clerk-faculty/emeritus/garry-leslie-brown Emeritus Professor Garry Brown], princeton.edu
[https://dof.princeton.edu/sites/dof/files/Gary%20Leslie%20Brown%202011%20Book.pdf Honors Faculty Members], May 2011, princeton.edu
{{sortname|Theodor Siegfried|Dorsch|nolink=1}}1933Christ ChurchHugh Trevor-Roper [https://books.google.com/books?id=t2j0CAAAQBAJ&dq=Theodor+Siegfried+Dorsch&pg=PA32 Theodor Siegfried Dorsch], "The Wartime Journals"
{{sortname|David Wyke|Evans|nolink=1}} (1934-2024)1957New College
{{sortname|Henry|Fry|Henry Fry (anthropologist)}} (1886–1959)1909Balliol
Sir {{sortname|Brian |Hone}} (1907–1978)1930New College
{{sortname|Stanford|Howard|nolink=1}}1919Christ Church
{{sortname|Norman|Jolly}} (1882–1954)1904Balliol
{{sortname|Cecil|Madigan}} (1889–1947)1911Magdalen
{{sortname|Ryan Paul|Manuel|nolink=1}}2006Merton
{{sortname|Roger Gilbert|Opie}} (1927–1998)1951Christ Church[https://www.adelaide.edu.au/script/adelaidean/archive/backissues/Adelaidean-1998-03-02.pdf Former Rhodes Scholar dies in Oxford], Adelaidean, Vol 7 No 2 (2 March 1998) pg.7
{{sortname|Renfrey|Potts}} (1925–2005)1948Queen's
{{sortname|Howard|Rayner}} (1896–1975)1916Balliol
{{sortname|David Alexander|Robertson|nolink=1}}1983Magdalen
{{sortname|Peter Lindsay|Rogers|nolink=1}}1963New College
{{sortname|Michael Ewers|Smyth|nolink=1}}1960Exeter
{{sortname|Mahesh|Umapathysivam|nolink=1}}2014St Peter's
{{sortname|Stephen Kidman|Wilkinson|nolink=1}}1982New College
Max Kirkby

|2023

|Magdalen

|{{Cite web |title=Rhodes Scholar, Max Kirkby |url=https://pac.edu.au/news-events/rhodes-scholar-max-kirkby/ |access-date=2023-03-13 |website=Prince Alfred College |language=en}}

Academia and education

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  • Herbert Basedow (1881–1933), Anthropologist, geologist, explorer, politician
  • C. J. Coventry (1991–), social historian
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/davies-harold-whitridge-9913 Harold Whitridge Davies] (1894-1946), professor of physiology
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ellis-frank-10114 Frank Ellis] (1886-1964), educationist
  • Sir Brian Hone OBE FACE (1907–1978), Headmaster – Cranbrook School NSW and Melbourne Grammar School Vic
  • David Horner (1948–), military and official historian
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/jauncey-leslie-cyril-6829 Leslie Cyril Jauncey] (1899-1959), Harvard Business School economist, Marxist and life-long friend of King O'Malley
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/pitt-george-henry-11432 George Henry Pitt] (1891-1972), librarian, archivist and historian,
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/rossiter-roger-james-12114 James Leonard Rossiter] (1887-1962), headmaster and freemason grand master
  • Russel Ward (1914–1995), Marxist historian
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/west-reginald-arthur-12001 Reginald Arthur West] (1883-1964), headmaster of Adelaide High School
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/wheatley-frederick-william-9059 Frederick William Wheatley] (1871–1955), science and mathematics teacher

Business and agriculture

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  • Sir [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bruce-sir-wallace-5402 Wallace Bruce] (1878-1944), insurance broker and commission merchant, chaired the 1932 advisory committee on unemployment
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/buring-theodor-gustav-hermann-3115 Hermann Paul Leopold (Leo) Buring] (1876-1961), winemaker and councillor
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/davey-arnold-edwin-5890 Arnold Edwin Davey] (1862-1920), businessman and arbitrator
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/collins-arthur-leonard-art-12851 Arthur Leonard (Art) Collins] (1896-1969), pastoralist and sheep breeder
  • Tim Cooper (1955–), CEO of Coopers Brewery[http://www.coopers.com.au/aboutUs.php?pid=2 Tim Cooper] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070828003141/http://www.coopers.com.au/aboutUs.php?pid=2 |date=28 August 2007 }}, www.coopers.com.au
  • Glenn Cooper (1952–), Executive Chairman of Coopers Brewery[http://www.coopers.com.au/aboutUs.php?pid=3 Glenn Cooper] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070828022654/http://www.coopers.com.au/aboutUs.php?pid=3 |date=28 August 2007 }}, www.coopers.com.au
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/darling-harold-gordon-5884 Harold Gordon Darling] (1885-1950), CEO of John Darling and Son, chairman of the board of B.H.P, founding member of the Institute of Public Affairs.
  • Sir Hugh Robert Denison (1865-1940), tobacco manufacturer, newspaper proprietor and member of the House of Assembly SA and NSW.
  • Sir [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/gepp-sir-herbert-william-bert-6298 Herbert William (Bert) Gepp] (1877-1954), mining metallurgist and manager, public servant, industrialist and publicist,
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/gerard-kenneth-edward-ken-19597 Kenneth Edward (Ken) Gerard (1912–1993)], businessman, electrician and philanthropist
  • Robert Gerard, businessman, previously Chairman of Gerard Industries
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/harvey-hubert-harold-10451 Hubert Harold Harvey] (1913-1968), prolific businessman and key figure in Santos Ltd

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  • Howard Frederick Hobbs (1902-1982), inventor of automatic transmission
  • Sidney Edwin Hocking (1859-1935), newspaper proprietor
  • Sir Edward Holden (1885–1947), Founder of Holden, vehicle manufacturer
  • Sir [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/isaachsen-sir-oscar-lionel-10593 Oscar Lionel Isaachsen] (1885-1951), banker and anti-communist campaigner
  • Norman William Jolly (1882-1954), forester
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/kelly-william-stanley-7089 William Stanley Kelly] (1882–1969), agricultural industry representative
  • Sir [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/melrose-sir-john-7555 John Melrose] (1860-1938), pastoralist
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mcgregor-harold-waddell-11409 Harold Waddell McGregor] (1898-1978), woolbroker
  • Sir [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mcgregor-sir-james-robert-10961 James Robert McGregor] (1889-1973), woolbroker
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/preece-john-lloyd-8509 John Lloyd Preece] (1895-1969), bookseller and publisher
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/seppelt-oscar-benno-11658 Oscar Benno Seppelt] (1873-1963), winemaker and viticulturist, CEO of Seppeltsfield, president of the South Australian Chamber of Manufactures (1930-32) and of the Associated Chambers of Manufactures of Australia (1933)
  • Greg Siegele, Co-founder of Ratbag Games Pty Ltd
  • Sir [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/smart-sir-eric-fleming-11715 Eric Fleming Smart] (1911-1973), wheat-farmer and grazier
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/taylor-harry-samuel-8757 Harry Samuel Taylor] (1873-1932), newspaper-owner, Christian Socialists and White Australia advocate
  • William Edward Wainwright (1873-1959), mining and metallurgical engineer, government adviser

Clergy

  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cocks-nicholas-john-5706 Nicholas John Cocks] (1867-1925), Congregational minister and early advocate for the Uniting Church
  • Ernest Henry Woollacott (1888–1977), Methodist minister, president (1949-50) of the State committee of the World Council of Churches and a founder of Westminster School, Adelaide

Entertainment and the arts

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  • Sir John Ashton, OBE, ROI (1881–1963), Painter and Director of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales
  • Charles Baeyertz (1866–1943), publisher of The Triad, critic and broadcaster
  • Chris Bailey (1950–2013), bass guitarist with ARIA award-winning Australian Bands 'The Angels' and 'GANGgajang'{{cite book |last=McFarlane |first=Ian |title=The encyclopedia of Australian Rock And Pop |year=1999 |publisher=Allen & Unwin |location=Australia |isbn=1-86448-768-2 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofau00mcfa/page/18 18,242] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofau00mcfa/page/18 }}
  • Gustave Adrian Barnes (1877-1921), artist
  • David Basheer, association football (soccer) commentator and analyst{{cite web | title=David Basheer | website=Prince Alfred College | date=10 December 2020 | url=https://pac.edu.au/community/princes-men-gallery/david-basheer/ | access-date=21 July 2023}}
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/buring-theodor-gustav-hermann-3115 Adolph Wilhelm Rudolph (Rudi)] (1872-1950), horticultural sketcher and industrialist
  • John Henry Chinner (1865–1933), caricaturist and PAC board member
  • Norman Chinner (1909-1961), organist and conductor
  • Sir Thomas Melrose Coombe (1873-1959), businessman, film exhibitor and philanthropist
  • Bob Francis (1939–2016), radio presenter, FIVEaa
  • Robert Hannaford, AM (1944–), portrait painter and sculptor
  • Sir Ivor Hele (1912–1993), war artist and prolific portraitist
  • Sir Robert Helpmann, CBE (1909–1986), Ballet dancer, actor, director and choreographer
  • Laurence Hotham Howie (1876-1963), artist and teacher, president of the (Royal) South Australian Society of Arts in 1927-32 and 1935-37
  • Reginald Charles (Rex) Ingamells (1913-1955), poet and editor
  • Graham Jenkin, poet, composer and historian
  • Hayley Lever (1876–1958), painter
  • Adam Liaw (1978–), lawyer and winner of 2010 MasterChef Australia
  • Rex Heading (1929–2010), the creator of Humphrey B. Bear whose show won two Logies; former managing director of Channel Nine[http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/creator-of-our-bestloved-bear-20101027-173wn.html Creator of our best-loved bear], Rex Heading obituary, Sydney Morning Herald, 28 October 2010
    [http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/obituaries-rex-heading-joe-day-and-lyn-mcevoy/news-story/8b3f1fc7ba00619b59d49b637bf53693 Obituary], www.adelaidenow.com.au, 15 January 2011

Exploration

  • Duncan Chessell (1970–), Mountaineer
  • Cecil Madigan (1889–1947), explorer, Geologist, Rhodes Scholar, University Lecturer
  • Andrew Martin (1951–), Marathon swimmer, first recorded solo crossing of the treacherous Backstairs Passage between Cape Jervis and Kangaroo Island.{{cite journal|last1=Bye|first1=John T.|last2=Carvalho Junior|first2=Oldemar|title=The first recorded successful cross Backstairs Passage swim: research note [Andrew Martin's swim is a unique entry in the annals of South Australian exploration.]|journal=South Australian Geographical Journal|year=1996|volume= 95|issue=1996|pages=70–74|url=https://search.informit.org/documentSummary;dn=980201500;res=IELAPA;subject=Earth%20sciences|ref=ISSN 1030-0481}}

Judiciary, civic leadership and public service

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  • Hugh Thomas Moffitt Angwin (1888-1949), engineer and public servant
  • Harold Boas (1883–1980), Perth architect, town planner and Jewish community leader
  • Edward Erskine Cleland (1869-1943), barrister and justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/coombe-reginald-joseph-reg-12349 Reginald Joseph (Reg) Coombe] (1899-1985), magistrate
  • Sir Russell John Dumas (1887-1975), public servant and engineer
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/harris-allan-cuthbert-bluey-18448 Allan Cuthbert Harris] (1904–1996), forester, public servant, and government-enterprise manager
  • Elliott Johnston (1918-2011), Justice of the South Australian Supreme Court and the only openly communist judge in Australian history, Commissioner of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (1989–91)
  • Alexander Melrose (1865-1944), solicitor, writer and patron of the arts
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/piper-harold-bayard-11430 Harold Bayard Piper] (1894-1953), chief judge of the Arbitration Court 1941-47
  • Sir Herbert Angas Parsons (1872-1945), Justice of the Supreme Court of SA, member of the House of Assembly
  • Sir Geoffrey Reed (1892–1970), judge in the Supreme Court of South Australia, first Director-General of ASIO

Politics

=Federal=

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  • Cory Bernardi (1969–), Senator for South Australia from 2006 to 2020
  • Gordon Bilney (1939-2012), Labor member of the House of Representatives, Minister for Defence Science and Personnel from 1990 to 1993, Minister for Development Cooperation and Pacific Island Affairs from 1993 to 1996, OECD official, High Commissioner to the West Indies
  • Grant Chapman (1949–), Member for Division of Kingston (1975–1983) and Senator for South Australia (1988–2008)
  • John Chapman (1879-1931), Country Party senator for South Australia
  • David Combe (1943–2019), National Secretary of the Australian Labor Party from 1973 to 1981.
  • David Fawcett (1963-), Liberal Senator for South Australia, former assistant minister for defence
  • Joel Moses Gabb (1882–1951), Labor then independent member of the House of Representatives, agrarian socialist turned facist
  • Clive Hannaford (1903-1967), Liberal and independent senator for South Australia from 1950 to 1967.
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/kelly-charles-robert-bert-32503 Charles Robert Kelly] (1912–1997), politician, farmer and columnist, Nationals MP 1958-77, minister of works, minister of the navy
  • Sir [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mcbride-sir--philip-albert-15051 Philip Albert Martin McBride] (1892–1982), member of the House of Representatives (1931-43;46-58), minister of defence 1950-58
  • Horace Keyworth Nock (1879–1958), Country Party member of House of Representatives
  • Rex Pearson (1905-1961), Liberal senator for South Australia
  • Nick Xenophon (1959-), Senator for South Australia from 2008 to 2017.
  • Sir Harold Young (1923-2006), senator for South Australia, President of the Senate from 1981 to 1983.

=State=

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Medical, mathematics, natural and social sciences

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  • Herbert Basedow (1881–1933), anthropologist, geologist, explorer, politician
  • Isaac Herbert Boas (1878-1955), botanist
  • Roger Brissenden (1962–) Deputy Director, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
  • Henry Brose (1890–1965), physicist, translator, pathologist, biochemist, academic, Rhodes Scholar
  • Thomas Draper Campbell (1893-1967), professor of dentistry and anthropologist
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cheek-donald-brook-12310 Donald Brook Cheek] (1924-1990), medical scientist and paediatrician
  • Charles Chewings (1859-1937), geologist and anthropologist
  • Sir Raphael Cilento, medical practitioner and public health administrator
  • Sir John Burton Cleland, CBE (1878–1971), Naturalist, microbiologist, mycologist, ornithologist, Professor of Pathology
  • Sir Darcy Rivers Warren Cowan (1885-1958), medical practitioner
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/dibden-william-andrew-bill-18266 William Andrew Dibden] (1914–1993), psychiatrist
  • Hugo Flecker (1884-1957), medical practitioner, radiotherapist, toxicologist and natural historian
  • Henry Fry, DSO (1886–1959), Physician, anthropologist, Rhodes Scholar
  • Bill Griggs, AM, ASM, doctor
  • Herbert Mathew Hale (1895-1963), Director of the South Australian Museumhttps://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001896b.htmhttps://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+6069
  • Brian Kenneth Hobbs (1937–2004), doctor
  • Frank Sandland Hone (1871-1951), medical practitioner
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/jeffries-lewis-wibmer-6833 Lewis Wibmer Jeffries] (1884-1971), medical practitioner and soldier

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  • Lionel Logue, CVO (1880–1953), speech therapist who successfully treated King George VI's stammer, portrayed in The King's speech
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/jauncey-george-eric-13006 George Eric Macdonnell Jauncey] (1888-1947), physicist
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/martin-peter-gordon-18995 Peter Gordon Martin] (1923–1994), botanist and geneticist
  • Howard Rayner (1896–1975), doctor
  • Brian Sando OAM (1936-2012), sports doctor for the Adelaide Football Club, Redlegs and Australian Olympics team.https://www.afc.com.au/news/759664/farewell-honours-dr-sando
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/shepherd-arthur-edmund-8412 Arthur Edmund Shepherd] (1867-1942), medical practitioner and army medical officer
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/smith-julian-augustus-923 Julian Augustus Smith] (1873-1947), surgeon and photographer
  • Con Stough, Professor of Psychology – Swinburne University
  • John Burnard West (1928– ), respiratory physiologist
  • John Raymond Wilton (1884-1944), Elder Professor of Mathematics at the University of Adelaide.
  • Traugott Bernhard Zwar (1876-1947), surgeon

Military

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  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cox-ronald-hubert-27534 Ronald Hubert Cox] (1914–1992), air force officer and city inspector
  • Major General Steve Gower AO (1940–), Director of the Australian War Memorial 1996–2011
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lees-ronald-beresford-17621 Ronald Beresford Lees] (1910-1991), air force officer
  • Major-General Sir Newton Moore KCMG (1870–1936), eighth Premier of Western Australia, World War I general, member of the UK House of Commons 1918-23, 1924-34.
  • John Alexander Raws, journalist and WW1 diarist, killed in action 23 August 1916 at Pozieres – no known grave"Hail and Farewell – Letters from Two Brothers Killed in France in 1916", Ed. Margaret Young and Bill Gammage, Kangaroo Press 1995 {{ISBN|0-86417-707-0}}. Also "Records of an Australian Lieutenant 1915–16", privately published.
  • Lieutenant Leonard Taplin, DFC, World War fighter ace, pioneer aerial photographer and aerial cartographer
  • Captain Hugo Vivian Hope Throssell, VC (1884–1933), soldier, farmer{{cite encyclopedia| last = Welborn| first = Suzanne | encyclopedia = Australian Dictionary of Biography| title = Throssell, Hugo Vivian Hope (1884–1933)| url = http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120247b.htm | access-date = 23 January 2008| edition = Online | year = 1990| publisher = Melbourne University Press| volume = 12| location = Melbourne | pages = 223–224}}
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/waite-william-charles-nightingale-8948 William Charles Nightingale Waite] (1880-1973), soldier and auctioneer

Sports

=Cricket=

=Australian rules football=

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=Association football=

=Rowing=

  • Dr. Matthew Bolt (1986–), former Australian Under 23 Rower, stroke of the 2011 Bronze medal winning South Australian Kings Cup crew, member of 2012 Bronze medal winning Kings Cup crew, former Captain of Adelaide University Boat Club
  • Alexander Hill (1993–), Current Australian Rowing Team member, Olympic Silver Medallist (Rio 2016) M4–, World Cup Medallist, Australian Under 23 Rower, 2011/2012 Bronze medal winning Kings Cup crew member, former Under 19 World Champion{{citation needed|date=July 2012}}
  • Brian Richardson (1948–), former Olympic Rower, Montreal 1976 and Moscow 1980{{citation needed|date=February 2017}}

Noted members of staff

=Headmasters=

  • William Bayly
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/chapple-frederic-5559 Frederic Chapple] (1845–1924)
  • John Anderson Hartley (1844–1896), (second headmaster, but first without supervision)
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ward-john-frederick-8984 John Frederick Ward] (1883–1954) (also the history teacher)

=Teachers=

  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ashton-james-5068 James Ashton] (1859–1935), art
  • Sir Frederick William Holder (1850–1909)
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/leschen-heinrich-adolph-13043 Heinrich Adolph Leschen] (1836–1916), gymnastics
  • Martin McKinnon (1975-), history
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/porter-harold-edward-hal-15483 Harold Edward Porter] (1911-1984), English
  • Richard Sanders Rogers (1861-1942), science
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/wheatley-frederick-william-9059 Frederick William Wheatley] (1871–1955), science and mathematics

=Governors=

  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/piper-arthur-william-8507 Arthur William Piper] (1865–1936), judge
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/piper-thomas-8053 Thomas Piper] (1835–1928), clergyman

=Foundation council=

  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/gerard-william-geoffrey-geoff-19598 William Geoffrey Gerard (1907–1994)], businessman and philanthropist

=Founders and early figures=

  • Sir John Colton (1823–1902), Premier of South Australia
  • George Witherage Cotton (1821–1892), politician, land dealer and Christain Socialist
  • Sir Thomas Elder (1818-1897), businessman, pastoralist and public benefactor
  • Daniel Garlick (1818-1902), architect
  • William McMinn (1844-1884), surveyor and architect
  • T. G. Waterhouse (1811-1885), businessman, investor and philanthropist
  • [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/watsford-john-4809 John Watsford] (1820-1907), Wesleyan minister

References

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