Old Reds

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
William Douglas Allen (1914–2008)	1937	New College
Henry Brose (1890–1965)	1913	Christ Church
Garry Leslie Brown	1964	Magdalen	^[1]
Theodor Siegfried Dorsch	1933	Christ Church	^[2]
David Wyke Evans (1934–2024)	1957	New College
Henry Fry (1886–1959)	1909	Balliol
Sir Brian Hone (1907–1978)	1930	New College
Stanford Howard	1919	Christ Church
Norman Jolly (1882–1954)	1904	Balliol
Cecil Madigan (1889–1947)	1911	Magdalen
Ryan Paul Manuel	2006	Merton
Roger Gilbert Opie (1927–1998)	1951	Christ Church	^[3]
Renfrey Potts (1925–2005)	1948	Queen's
Howard Rayner (1896–1975)	1916	Balliol
David Alexander Robertson	1983	Magdalen
Peter Lindsay Rogers (1940–2024)	1963	New College
Michael Ewers Smyth	1960	Exeter
Mahesh Umapathysivam	2014	St Peter's
Stephen Kidman Wilkinson	1982	New College
Max Kirkby	2023	Magdalen	^[4]

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Academia and education

Herbert Basedow (1881–1933), Anthropologist, geologist, explorer, politician
C. J. Coventry (1991–), social historian
Harold Whitridge Davies (1894–1946), professor of physiology
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
Leslie Cyril Jauncey (1899–1959), Harvard Business School economist, Marxist and life-long friend of King O'Malley
George Henry Pitt (1891–1972), librarian, archivist and historian,
James Leonard Rossiter (1887–1962), headmaster and freemason grand master
Russel Ward (1914–1995), Marxist historian
Reginald Arthur West (1883–1964), headmaster of Adelaide High School
Frederick William Wheatley (1871–1955), science and mathematics teacher

Business and agriculture

Sir Wallace Bruce (1878–1944), insurance broker and commission merchant, chaired the 1932 advisory committee on unemployment
Hermann Paul Leopold (Leo) Buring (1876–1961), winemaker and councillor
Arnold Edwin Davey (1862–1920), businessman and arbitrator
Arthur Leonard (Art) Collins (1896–1969), pastoralist and sheep breeder
Tim Cooper (1955–), CEO of Coopers Brewery^[5]
Glenn Cooper (1952–), Executive Chairman of Coopers Brewery^[6]
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 Herbert William (Bert) Gepp (1877–1954), mining metallurgist and manager, public servant, industrialist and publicist,
Kenneth Edward (Ken) Gerard (1912–1993), businessman, electrician and philanthropist
Robert Gerard, businessman, previously Chairman of Gerard Industries
Hubert Harold Harvey (1913–1968), prolific businessman and key figure in Santos Ltd

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 Oscar Lionel Isaachsen (1885–1951), banker and anti-communist campaigner
Norman William Jolly (1882–1954), forester
William Stanley Kelly (1882–1969), agricultural industry representative
Sir John Melrose (1860–1938), pastoralist
Harold Waddell McGregor (1898–1978), woolbroker
Sir James Robert McGregor (1889–1973), woolbroker
John Lloyd Preece (1895–1969), bookseller and publisher
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 Eric Fleming Smart (1911–1973), wheat-farmer and grazier
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

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

Old Red Robert Hannaford, realist sculptor

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'^[7]
Gustave Adrian Barnes (1877–1921), artist
David Basheer, association football (soccer) commentator and analyst^[8]
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^[9]

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^[10]

Judiciary, civic leadership and public service

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
Reginald Joseph (Reg) Coombe (1899–1985), magistrate
Sir Russell John Dumas (1887–1975), public servant and engineer
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
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

Cory Bernardi (1969–), Senator for South Australia from 2006 to 2020, member of the Legislative Council 2026 - present, leader of One Nation South Australia.
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
Clive Hannaford (1903–1967), Liberal and independent senator for South Australia from 1950 to 1967.
Charles Robert Kelly (1912–1997), politician, farmer and columnist, Nationals MP 1958–77, minister of works, minister of the navy
Sir Philip Albert Martin McBride (1892–1982), member of the House of Representatives (1931–43; 1946–58), 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

Sir John Lavington Bonython (1875–1960), editor of The Advertiser, Lord Mayor of Adelaide (1927–1930)
Francis Cotton (1857–1942), founding member of the NSW Labor Party, unionist, later Free Trade politician
John Lancelot Cowan, Member for the District of Southern Districts (1949–1959) in the South Australian Legislative Council
Fraser Ellis (1992–), Independent member of the House of Assembly
Edward Allan Farquhar (1871–1935), Councillor, Alderman and Chair of Finance on the Port Adelaide City Council^[11]
Charles Glover (1870–1936), first Lord Mayor of the City of Adelaide (1919)
Hermann Robert (1874–1964), member of the Legislative Council, two-time SA attorney-general, minister for industry
Sir Shirley Williams Jeffries (1886–1963), SA attorney-general, minister of education, and minister of industry and employment.
George Richards Laffer (1866–1933), minister and Speaker of the House of Assembly
Nick McBride, independent member of the Legislative Assembly
Sir Alexander Lyell McEwin (1897–1988), member of SA parliament 1934–1975, chief secretary, minister for mines, minister for health
Major-General Sir Newton Moore KCMG (1870–1936), eighth Premier of Western Australia, World War I general, member of the UK House of Commons
Sir Frank Tennyson Perry (1887–1965), member of the legislative council, industrialist, wartime public servant.
Robert Thomson Robinson (1867–1926), WA attorney-general, minister for mines, minister for industry
Crawford Vaughan (1874–1947), Premier of South Australia 1915–17
John Howard Vaughan (1879–1955), union leader and Attorney-General of South Australia
Sir Frederick William Young (1876–1948), member of the South Australian House of Assembly 1902–05 and 1909–15, commissioner of crown lands and immigration in 1912–14, South Australian agent-general in London 1915–18, member of the House of Commons 1918–22.

Medical, mathematics, natural and social sciences

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
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
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 Museum^[12]^[13]
Brian Kenneth Hobbs (1937–2004), doctor
Frank Sandland Hone (1871–1951), medical practitioner
Lewis Wibmer Jeffries (1884–1971), medical practitioner and soldier

Lionel Logue, CVO (1880–1953), speech therapist who successfully treated King George VI's stammer, portrayed in The King's speech
George Eric Macdonnell Jauncey (1888–1947), physicist
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.^[14]
Arthur Edmund Shepherd (1867–1942), medical practitioner and army medical officer
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

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
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^[15]
Lieutenant Leonard Taplin, DFC, World War fighter ace, pioneer aerial photographer and aerial cartographer
Captain Hugo Vivian Hope Throssell, VC (1884–1933), soldier, farmer^[16]
William Charles Nightingale Waite (1880–1973), soldier and auctioneer

Sports

Cricket

Greg Blewett (born 1971)
Greg Chappell, MBE (born 1948), Australian captain 1975–1977, 1979–1983
Ian Chappell (born 1943), Australian captain 1971–1975
Trevor Chappell (born 1952)
Joe Darling, CBE (1870–1946), Australian captain 1899–1902, 1902–1903, 1905
Rick Darling (born 1957)
Simon Douglas Fry (born 1966), umpire 2001–
Clem Hill (1877–1945), Australian captain 1910–1912
Tim May (born 1962)
Howard Rayner (1896–1975)
Paul Rofe (born 1981)
James Smith (born 1988)
Ashley Woodcock (born 1947)

Australian rules football

Edward Charles Atkins (1873–1966) Norwood (SA Premiers 1894), Sturt, West Perth (WA Premiers 1897), East Fremantle (WA)^[17]
Zac Bailey (1999–), Brisbane Football Club 2018– ; AFL premiership player 2024, 2025
Kade Chandler (2000–), Melbourne Demons 2019–
Riley Bonner (1997–), Port Adelaide Football Club 2016–2023 (93 games, 13 goals); St. Kilda Football Club 2024 (19 games, 1 goal); Total: 112 games, 14 goals^[18]
James Borlase (2002–), Adelaide Crows 2021–
Mitch Crowden (1999–), Fremantle Football Club 2018–2022 (42 games, 15 goals)
Peter Dalwood, Norwood, Fitzroy 1945 (7 games, 12 goals),^[19] South Australia
Peter Darley (1944–) South Adelaide (206 games); premiership winners 1964, captain 1967–1969, 1971; leading goalkicker 1974; 7 times best and fairest
Rick Davies (1952–) South Australia (20 games, captain 1980); SANFL: Sturt (317), South Adelaide (33); VFL: Hawthorn 1981 (20 games, 37 goals)
Sam Day (1992–), Gold Coast Suns 2011–2024 (155 games, 117 goals); Brisbane Lions 2025–;^[20] inaugural member of the Gold Coast Suns
Aaron Francis (1997–), Essendon Football Club (35 games, 6 goals); Sydney Swans 2023–2025 (30 games, 6 goals); Total: 84 games, 18 goals
George Hewett (1995–), Sydney Swans Football Club 2016–2021 (120 games, 32 goals); Carlton Blues 2022–
Wayne Jackson (1944–), CEO of the AFL (1996–2003)
Craig Kelly (1966–), Collingwood
Ed Lower (1987–), North Melbourne Kangaroos^[21] 2006–2010 (42 games, 16 goals)^[22]

Nick Lower (1987–), Port Adelaide 2006–2009 (20 games, 0 goals); Fremantle Dockers^[21] 2011–2012 (22 games, 9 goals); Western Bulldogs 2013 (13 games, 2 goals) – Total (55 games, 11 goals)^[23]
Rodney Maynard (1966–), Adelaide Crows
Kane McAuliffe (2005–) Richmond Football Club 2023–
Ian McKay (1923–2010), North Adelaide (164 games, 45 goals, captain 1948–1955); South Australia (14 games, captain 1950–1951); 1950 Magarey Medalist
John Mossop (1959–), Geelong 1979–1986 (134 games, 87 goals); North Melbourne 1987–1988 (37 games, 15 goals) – Total (171 games, 102 goals); Carji Greeves Medalist 1982
Kysaiah Pickett (2001–), Melbourne Football Club 2020–; AFL premiership player 2021
David Pittman (1969–), Adelaide Crows 1992–1999 (131 games, 34 goals);^[24] 2× AFL premiership player 1997, 1998
Loch Rawlinson(2005–), West Coast Eagles 2023–
Kym Russell (1968–), Collingwood Magpies 1991 (3 games, 1 goal)^[25]
Scott Russell (1970–), Collingwood Magpies 1990–1998 (182 games, 107 goals); Sydney Swans 1999 (16 games, 8 goals) – Total (198 games, 115 goals);^[26] AFL premiership player 1990
Luke Pedlar (2002–) Adelaide Crows 2021–
Harry Schoenberg (2001–), Adelaide Football Club 2020–2025 (62 games, 22 goals); West Coast Eagles 2026-
Tom Sparrow (2000–) Melbourne Football Club 2019–; AFL premiership player 2021
Luke Tapscott (1991–), Melbourne Demons 2011–2014 (48 games, 12 goals)^[27]

Jack Trengove (1991–), Melbourne Demons (86 games, 39 goals, 2010–2017), captain of Melbourne FC (2012–2013), youngest captain in VFL/AFL history
Bernie Vince (1985–), Adelaide Crows 2006–2013 (129 games, 80 goals) Melbourne Demons 2014–2018 (100 games, 33 goals) – Total (229 games, 113 goals); 2009 Malcolm Blight Medalist, 2015 Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Medalist
Jack Viney (1994–), Melbourne Demons 2013– co-captain (2017–2019); AFL premiership player 2021; 2x Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Medalist 2016 & 2024
Tim Weatherald (1977–) Sturt and Norwood Football Club (SANFL), Magarey Medallist 2002^[28]
Tex Wanganeen (2003–) Essendon Football Club 2022–2024 (5 games, 1 goal)^[29]

Association football

John Hall (1994–), Western Sydney Wanderers and Olyroos^[30]

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]}
Brian Richardson (1947–2024), former Olympic Rower, Montreal 1976 and Moscow 1980^{[citation needed]}

Noted members of staff

Headmasters

William Bayly (1867–1937)
Frederic Chapple (1845–1924)
John Anderson Hartley (1844–1896), (second headmaster, but first without supervision)
John Frederick Ward (1883–1954) (also the history teacher)

Teachers

James Ashton (1859–1935), art
Sir Frederick William Holder (1850–1909)
Heinrich Adolph Leschen (1836–1916), gymnastics
Martin McKinnon (1975–), history
Harold Edward Porter (1911–1984), English
Richard Sanders Rogers (1861–1942), science
Frederick William Wheatley (1871–1955), science and mathematics

Governors

Arthur William Piper (1865–1936), judge
Thomas Piper (1835–1928), clergyman

Foundation council

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 Christian 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
John Watsford (1820–1907), Wesleyan minister