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| logo = Pulteney Grammar School emblem.png

| established = {{start date and age|1847}}<ref name=Diocese>{{cite web |url=http://www.adelaide.anglican.com.au/schools.htm |title=Co-education Schools |access-date=2008-02-17 |work=Community |publisher=Anglican Diocese of Adelaide |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080303040016/http://www.adelaide.anglican.com.au/schools.htm |archive-date=3 March 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

| type = [[Independent School|Independent]], [[co-educational]] [[day school]]

| denomination = [[Anglican Church of Australia|Anglican]]<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.privateschoolsdirectory.com.au/school.php?school=3998 |title=Pulteney Grammar School |date=2022 |website=Australian Directories |publisher=Future Media Group |access-date=16 November 2023 }}</ref>

| slogan = Where passions prosper<ref>{{Cite web|title=Home {{!}} Pulteney Grammar School|url= https://www.pulteney.sa.edu.au/# |access-date=16 November 2023|website=www.pulteney.sa.edu.au}}</ref>

| principal = Deborah Dalwood (acting)

| city = [[Adelaide]]

| country =

| enrolment = 894 (R–12), 56% boys, in 2022<ref name=ACARA>{{cite web|url=https://www.myschool.edu.au/school/49812 |title=Pulteney Grammar School, Adelaide, SA |date=16 November 2023 |website=My School |publisher=Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority |access-date=17 November 2023 }}</ref>

| num_employ = 149 (Full-time)<ref name=ACARA/>

| colours = Navy blue, white and gold<br>{{color box|#000080}} {{color box|#FFFFFF}} {{color box|#FFD700}}

| affiliation = {{bulleted list|[[Sports Association for Adelaide Schools]]|[[Independent Girls' Schools Sports Association (South Australia)|Independent Girls Schools Sports Association]]}}

| website = {{URL|https://www.pulteney.sa.edu.au}}

'''Pulteney Grammar School''' is an [[Independent school|independent]], [[Anglican Church of Australia|Anglican]], [[co-educational]] [[day school]]. Founded in 1847 by members of the [[Anglican Church of Australia|Anglican Church]], it is the second oldest independent school in [[South Australia]]. It is located on [[South Terrace, Adelaide|South Terrace]]in [[Adelaide]].

==Founding==

[[File:Painting of Pulteney Street School ca 1848.jpg |thumb|left|Pulteney Street School soon after its completion in 1848]]

[[File:RevdEKMiller.jpg|thumb|left|Revd Edmund Miller, the school's first headmaster, 1847–1850]]

[[File:5PHPSS001Herbert-Hynes2.jpg|thumb|Herbert Hynes in the uniform of Pulteney Street School, about 1885]]

[[File:Pulteney Street school frontage.jpg|thumb|Pulteney Street School, pictured in 1919 before the premises were compulsorily acquired by the Australian Government]]

In May 1847, some citizens of Adelaide met to discuss the establishment of a new school in the city. Twelve months later, on 29 May 1848, '''Pulteney Street School''' was opened at a newly constructed {{convert|30 by 60|ft|m|0}} building at the corner of [[Pulteney Street|Pulteney]] and [[Flinders Street, Adelaide|Flinders]] streets. Although established in the [[Anglicanism in Australia|Anglican]] tradition, which continues to this day, it provided from the beginning an education for students of all religious denominations.<ref name=intelligence>{{cite news |title=Local Intelligence |url= https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/158926155# |newspaper=[[The Adelaide Observer]] |volume=VI |issue=257 |location=Original, Adelaide; digital reproduction, Canberra |date=27 May 1848 |access-date=17 November 2023 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia – [[Trove]] digital newspaper archive}}</ref>

Operating 10 months after [[St Peter's College, Adelaide|St Peter's College]] was founded, the Pulteney Street School was aimed at a broader demographic, reflected in a monthly charge of 2&nbsp;shillings and 6&nbsp;pence for each pupil, considered to be "a rate which the poorest can surely afford to pay for the education of their children".<ref name=intelligence/> The school had 50 pupils by the end of its first week and 270 by Christmas; within two years the average attendance had reached 350. From an early stage, technical subjects were taught to prepare boys for a trade. The senior class had a wide syllabus: writing, arithmetic, grammar, geography, mapping, linear drawing, mental arithmetic, geometry, dictation, spelling, reading, history, and "the prophecies".<ref name=kurrajong>{{cite book |last=Goulding |first=Lingard |date=2020 |title=Under the kurrajong trees : Pulteney Grammar School from 1847 until 2020 |publisher=Pulteney Grammar School |location=Adelaide |isbn=978-0-646-82801-5}}</ref>{{rp|67–69}} It advertised, four years later, that "The children are taught a superior commercial education, and have the use of the globes and maps. The girls are taught needlework, &c., and are separated from the boys' school. The pupils' fee is three shillings per month, paid in advance, with all materials found."<ref name="Pulteney Street Central Schools">{{cite news |title=Pulteney Street Central Schools |url= https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/3918374 |newspaper=[[South Australian Register|The South Australian Register]] |location=Original, Adelaide; digital reprint, Canberra|via=National Library of Australia – [[Trove]] digital newspaper archive |date=25 June 1852 |volume=XVI |issue=1804 |page=2 |access-date=16 November 2023 }}</ref>

The inaugural headmaster, the Reverend [[Edmund King Miller]], served in very difficult circumstances: when about 100 children had been admitted he applied to the trustees for an assistant, a request that was refused on the ground that there was a debt on the building they wished to liquidate. Emma Mitchell joined later in the year, mainly to take charge of the separate education of girls; but eventually an assistant for Miller, a William Pepper, was engaged. Miller remained on relatively poor terms with his trustees, largely owing to their failure to recognise the magnitude of the workload that fell on him, including his church work. He resigned in 1850.<ref name=kurrajong/>{{rp|67–68}}

In 1852 the school became '''Pulteney Street Central Schools''',<ref name=kurrajong/>{{rp|95}}<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article160109820 |title=Pulteney Street Central Schools |newspaper=[[Adelaide Observer]] |volume=X |issue=468 |location=South Australia |date=12 June 1852 |access-date=24 June 2024 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> when its trustees accepted the curriculum, inspections and examinations of the Board of Education, and its teachers' salaries were supplemented by the State.

Miller was succeeded by several headmasters of shorter duration ([[W. A. Cawthorne]] 1852–1855; [[R. C. Mitton]] 1855–1857<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49211215 |title=Advertising |newspaper=[[South Australian Register]] |volume=XXI |issue=3426 |location=South Australia |date=28 September 1857 |access-date=26 January 2024 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> for example), and between appointments the school operated for several years without one.

Coincident with the appointment of Cawthorne, a Miss Bridgeman was made governess of the girls' school. In 1853 she was replaced<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38463159 |title=Pulteney Street Schools |newspaper=[[South Australian Register]] |volume=XVII |issue=2114 |location=South Australia |date=25 June 1853 |access-date=28 June 2024 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>byMiss (Grace) Light.

In 1855 a great drift away from government schools took place,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49294330 |title=The Progress of Education |newspaper=[[South Australian Register]] |volume=XIX |issue=2856 |location=South Australia |date=22 November 1855 |access-date=24 June 2024 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> perhaps associated with the exodus to the Victorian goldfields and consequent economic downturn in Adelaide.

After the December 1856 examinations, the school went into suspension following a mass removal from State schools of boys seeking paid employment. This coincided with the Legislative Council cutting funds for teachers' stipends.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49764616 |title=Central Board of Education |newspaper=[[South Australian Register]] |volume=XXI |issue=3260 |location=South Australia |date=18 March 1857 |access-date=24 June 2024 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> The girls' school closed around this time; in 1858 Light founded her own school in the [[Holy Trinity Church, Adelaide|Trinity Church]] schoolroom.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49775457 |title=Advertising |newspaper=[[South Australian Register]] |volume=XXII |issue=3552 |location=South Australia |date=24 February 1858 |access-date=24 June 2024 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> It has been asserted<ref name=kurrajong/>{{rp|95}} that the school was renamed "Pulteney Street Central School" in the period when only the boys' school was operating.

In 1860 [[St Paul's Church, Adelaide|St Paul's Church]] was built in the school grounds, closer to the street corner.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49896099 |title=Opening of St Paul's Church, Pulteney Street |newspaper=[[South Australian Register]] |volume=XXVI |issue=4130 |location=South Australia |date=10 January 1860 |access-date=8 July 2024 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

In late 1862, under the new headmaster [[William Samuel Moore]],{{efn|According to one report, the school was from 1861 to 1884 known as "Moore's School".<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55830283 |title=Pulteney's Long Record |newspaper=[[The Mail (Adelaide)]] |volume=25 |issue=1,251 |location=South Australia |date=16 May 1936 |accessdate=29 June 2024 |page=22 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>}} the school was reestablished as "Pulteney Street Central Schools",<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50167351 |title=Civic Dinner |newspaper=[[South Australian Register]] |volume=XXVI |issue=5045 |location=South Australia |date=23 December 1862 |access-date=24 June 2024 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> with classes for girls, and in the 1870s, 74 girls were enrolled out of a total of 270. But female enrolments again ceased in 1884,<ref name=kurrajong/>{{rp|82, 87, 95}} when its name reverted to "Pulteney Street School".<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article208276047 |title=Advertising |newspaper=[[The Express and Telegraph]] |volume=XXI |issue=6,109 |location=South Australia |date=14 May 1884 |access-date=4 July 2024 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> It did not again become co-educational until 1999.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/life-is-coed-schools-should-be-too-says-pulteney-grammar-principal-anne-dunstan/news-story/dbde00d7ffcd1efe874d4e011973b5ee |title=Life is co-ed, schools should be too, says Pulteney Grammar principal Anne Dunstan |first=Callie |last=Watson |newspaper=[[The Advertiser (Adelaide)|The Advertiser]] |location=Adelaide |date=2 November 2013 |access-date=17 November 2023 }}</ref>

The more durable headmasters – William Samuel Moore (1862–1883 — 20 years in office), William Percival Nicholls (41 years) and W. R. Ray (26 years) – led Pulteney to become a highly regarded educational institution among a field that included [[Scotch College, Adelaide|Scotch College]], [[Prince Alfred College]], and [[St Peter's College, Adelaide|St Peter's College]].<ref name=kurrajong/>{{rp|384}}

{{see also|St Paul's Church, Adelaide#Pulteney Street School}}

==20th century==

[[File:Opening of the new school rooms at the Pulteney Street School (now Pulteney Grammar).jpg|thumb|Opening of the new school on [[South Terrace, Adelaide|South Terrace]], renamed as Pulteney Grammar School, in 1921. The building, facing [[Adelaide Park Lands]], was for many years the middle school before it became the school's music and drama centre.]]

[[File:South Terrace.JPG|thumb|The school's footbridge allows pedestrians to safely cross heavily trafficked South Terrace]]

[[File:Pulteney Grammar School -- new Middle School bldg 14 July 2019.jpg|thumb|The Middle School building, completed in 2018, was awarded an architectural prize]]

In 1915, space had become insufficient to house all of the classes, threatening the school's survival. While pupils studied in two unsatisfactory venues elsewhere in the city, the trustees looked further afield and in 1916 purchased an acre of land belonging to St Peter's College on [[South Terrace, Adelaide|South Terrace]], facing the [[Adelaide Park Lands]].{{efn|The school, now intensively developed on its site, makes good use of the park lands: it leases 6 ovals, cricket nets, 3 lawn tennis courts, 2 grass volleyball courts and facilities, which are open for community use.<ref>{{cite web|title=Adelaide Park Lands Community Land Management Plans Kurrangga (Park 20)|url= http://adelaidecitycouncil.com/adccwr/publications/reports_plans/adopted_clmp_park_20.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101119215747/http://adelaidecitycouncil.com/adccwr/publications/reports_plans/adopted_clmp_park_20.pdf |date=2005 |url-status=dead|archive-date=19 November 2010 |publisher=Adelaide City Council |access-date=17 November 2023}}</ref>}}

In 1919, the school was forced out after its premises were compulsorily acquired by the [[Australian Government|Commonwealth Government]] "for [[Repatriation Department|repatriation]] purposes" following [[World War I]],<ref>{{cite news |url= https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/62399863 |title=Old days and new |newspaper=[[The Register (Adelaide)|The Register]] |volume=LXXXIV |issue=22,722 |location=Original, Adelaide; digital reprint, Canberra|via=National Library of Australia – [[Trove]] digital newspaper archive |date=5 September 1919 |access-date=17 November 2023 |page=5 }}</ref><ref name=kurrajong/>{{rp|384}} Despite privations of finance and post-war materials and labour shortages and strikes, the building that was to become the core of the new school was opened on 3 July 1921. Its capacity, 300, was at last sufficient for the enrolment of 249 boys, if only temporarily: four new classrooms were built in 1923.<ref name=kurrajong/>{{rp|112, 114}}

The move occurred half-way through the tenure of the school's longest-serving headmaster, William Percival Nicholls, 1901–1942, under whom enrolments increased steadily. A highly principled man with a great sense of humour, he enlarged the curriculum and introduced a branch of commercial education through typewriting and shorthand; the school gained a solid reputation for its commercial classes.

A rivalry soon developed between pupils at the adjoining Gilles Street Primary School and those at Pulteney. During lunch hours there were pitched battles in the creeks that ran through the cow pasture opposite Pulteney, with both sides throwing rocks and cow-pats. The headmaster often stood at the windows overlooking the area and, with his [[binoculars]], picked out the various students who were fighting; they were subsequently invited to a dreaded meeting in his office.<ref name=kurrajong/>{{rp|108, 118}}

The school's finances were on less firm ground than enrolments and academic standards. [[World War II]], with its many privations including a severe shortage of teachers, took its toll and by 1944 the school was facing a crisis of such magnitude that its future was again in the balance. After two interim headmasters had been engaged during the end of the war and its aftermath, the Revd William Robert Ray was appointed in 1947 to bring the school back on to its feet in three years pending a further review, including by raising enrolments to 250 by the end of 1949. Ray, to whom the boys gave the nickname "Rufus", and later "The Boss", was described by his deputy as "something of a maverick: he made his own rules, was bound by nothing or nobody, and was a supreme headmaster whose care for his pupils and staff was infinite." He saw Pulteney as more than a school: to him, it was a community. He was a powerful orator who used his skill to publicise his school. And there were some external advantages in 1947: South Australia's burgeoning post-war economy brought many families to the state from interstate and overseas, and increasing financial aid for education became available from both the [[Australian Government|Commonwealth]] and [[Government of South Australia|state government]]s. During Ray's first seven years in charge, enrolment rose from 162 to 608 amid an almost continuous building program. Increased numbers of boys and staff, and the addition of Year 11 and Year 12 classes in 1953, led to a resurgence of confidence in the school.<ref name=kurrajong/>{{rp|134}}<ref name=history>{{cite web |url=http://www.pulteney.sa.edu.au/AboutPulteney/GeneralInformation/History.aspx |title=Pulteney Grammar School, South Australia |access-date=2013-03-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130409063610/http://www.pulteney.sa.edu.au/AboutPulteney/GeneralInformation/History.aspx |archive-date=9 April 2013}}</ref>

==21st century==

During 1998, discussions commenced with [[St Peter's Woodlands Grammar School|Woodlands Church of England Girls Grammar School]] with a view to merging with Pulteney following several years of the former school's declining enrolments. Negotiations collapsed and no merger occurred.{{efn|Woodlands closed its doors at the end of 1998. In 1999, the lower years of Woodlands amalgamated with those of existing co-educational primary school St Peter's Glenelg Anglican Grammar School, to become St Peter's Woodlands Grammar School catering for early learning to Year 6.}} In the event, Pulteney finalised its longstanding planning for co-education when it welcomed girls of all ages from the beginning of 1999. In 2002, the school opened an innovative early learning centre, ''Kurrajong'', for pupils up to and including year 2.<ref name=history/>

The school described itself in 2013 as "firmly established, soundly administered and growing".<ref name=ACARA/>

==School structure and demographics==

The school has four age-based sub-schools on the South Terrace campus, each overseen by a "head of school" who responds to the principal. They are the early learning centre, ''Kurrajong'', for pupils up to and including year 2; prep school for years 3–6; [[middle school]] for years 7–9, and "one ninety" (senior school) for years 10–12.<ref name=history/>{{efn|Originally years 11–12; year 10 was in the middle school.}}

According to the [[Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority]], in 2022 there were 894 pupils (505 boys, 389 girls) at the school and 139.5 full-time equivalent staff (95 teaching, 44.5 non-teaching). The Distribution of Socio-Educational Advantage, for which the Australian distribution is 25% in each quartile, was: bottom quarter, 1%; lower middle quarter, 6%; upper middle quarter, 25%; top quarter 68%.<ref name=ACARA/> The attendance rate in 2022, previously 95%, was 89% – the significant variation being caused by the high Covid-19 Omicron variant and influenza infections.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.myschool.edu.au/school/49812/attendance |title=Pulteney Grammar School, Adelaide, SA |date=16 November 2023 |website=My School |publisher=Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority |access-date=17 November 2023 }}</ref> Of 82 students completing senior secondary school, 81 were awarded a certificate.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.myschool.edu.au/school/49812/seniorsecondary |title=Pulteney Grammar School, Adelaide, SA |date=16 November 2023 |website=My School |publisher=Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority |access-date=17 November 2023 }}</ref>

==2023 educational innovation award==

In 2023, Pulteney Grammar School was one of three South Australian schools recognised in ''The Educator'' publication's national Innovative Schools Awards for its teaching and learning approaches that develop learners' foundational literacies and transversal skills. The award<blockquote>... celebrate[s] the people and collaboration at the centre of Pulteney's daily operations. A unique award-winning teaching and learning framework, The Learner Compass, provides a common language which students, teachers and parents use to communicate and share their unique understanding of quality teaching and learning at Pulteney Grammar School.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://premium.theeducatoronline.com/au-te-5-star-innovative-schools-2023-pulteney-grammar-school/p/1 |title=Award winner – Pulteney Grammar School |date=2023 |website=The Educator Australia |access-date=18 November 2023 }}</ref><ref name= award>{{cite news |title=Prize for principal after he resigned |first=Lauren |last=Novak |newspaper=[[The Advertiser (Adelaide)|The Advertiser]] |location=Adelaide |date=16 November 2023 |page=12 }}</ref></blockquote>

==Notable alumni==

A large and active Old Scholars' Association maintains a strong connection between the school and its alumni. Membership is extended to students on graduation from year&nbsp;12.

Some notable alumni of Pulteney Grammar School have included the following:

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! colspan="3" |{{larger|'''Rhodes Scholars'''}}<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.adelaide.edu.au/graduatecentre/scholarships/postgrad/pdf/sarhodesscholars.pdf |title= The Rhodes Scholarship, South Australia |access-date=18 November 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120213163818/http://www.adelaide.edu.au/graduatecentre/scholarships/postgrad/pdf/sarhodesscholars.pdf |archive-date= 13 February 2012 |url-status= dead }}</ref>

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||Charles Ashwin ||1952 ||[[Rhodes Scholar]] for South Australia

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||Simon Best ||1973 ||Rhodes Scholar for South Australia

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||Peter Gibbard ||1991 || Rhodes Scholar for South Australia

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||Mark Mussared ||1976 || Rhodes Scholar for South Australia

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||John Pritchard ||1935 ||Rhodes Scholar for South Australia

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||Jack Turner ||1992 ||Rhodes Scholar at Large

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||[[John Darling Jr.|John Darling]] ||Company director and South Australian politician, Member for East Torrens 1896–1902, Member for Torrens 1902–1905

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||[[John Gardner (Australian politician)|John Gardner]]&nbsp;{{post-nominals|country=AUS|MP}} ||South Australian Minister for Education (2018–2022), Member for Morialta (2010–)

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||[[Ian Haig]] {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}} ||Diplomat and business leader<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/youngest-ambassador-had-a-deep-affinity-for-the-world-of-islam--and-cricket-20140328-35ond.html|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|publisher=Fairfax Media|date=29 March 2014|first=Bruce|last=Debelle|title=Youngest ambassador had a deep affinity for the world of Islam - and cricket|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150305221254/http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/youngest-ambassador-had-a-deep-affinity-for-the-world-of-islam--and-cricket-20140328-35ond.html|archive-date=5 March 2015}}</ref>

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||Sir&nbsp;[[Frederick Holder|Frederick&nbsp;Holder]]&nbsp;{{post-nominals|country=AUS|KCMG}} ||19th Premier of South Australia, prominent member of inaugural [[Commonwealth Parliament]], first [[Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives]]

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||[[Stephen Mullighan]]&nbsp;{{post-nominals|country=AUS|MP}} ||South Australian Minister for Transport and Infrastructure (2014–2018), Member for Lee (2014–)

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||[[Ted Mullighan]] ||QC, South Australian Supreme Court judge<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/ipad/obituaries-tributes-to-three-of-our-finest/news-story/cca6c556cdf966b263029757027d6aca|title=Obituaries: Tributes to three of our finest|date=20 January 2012|website=www.adelaidenow.com.au}}</ref>

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||John Sulan ||South Australian Supreme Court judge<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.abrahaminstitute.com.au/About_Us/Reference_Group.aspx|title=The Abraham Institute|website=www.abrahaminstitute.com.au}}</ref>

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! colspan="2" |{{larger|'''Medicine'''}}

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||Ernest Robert Beech ||Emeritus consultant physician, [[Royal Perth Hospital]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.rph.wa.gov.au/emeritus/beech.html |title=Royal Perth Hospital - Ernest Robert Beech |access-date=8 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130411145006/http://www.rph.wa.gov.au/emeritus/beech.html |archive-date=11 April 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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||[[Rory Hume|Wyatt&nbsp;Roderic&nbsp;"Rory"&nbsp;Hume]] ||Dental academic and university administrator; vice-chancellor of the [[University of New South Wales]], provost and executive vice president for academic and health affairs of the University of California, and provost of the [[United Arab Emirates University]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.recordkeeping.unsw.edu.au/university-archives/online-exhibitions/vice-chancellors-exhibition |title=Hume, Wyatt Roderic BSc Dent, BDS, PhD, DDSc (Adel.), FRACDS, FACD, FICD |date=2023 |website=University of New South Wales |access-date=18 November 2023 }}</ref>

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||Sir Leonard Ross Mallen ||President of the South Australian Branch of the Australian Medical Association; a fellow and federal AMA councillor; president of the World Medical Association <ref>{{cite book |url= https://www.ama.com.au/sites/default/files/documents/Centenary_History.pdf |title=The South Australian Branch of the Australian Medical Association: a centenary history, 1979 |date=1979 |isbn= 0959871594 |website=Australian Medical Association |publisher=South Australian Branch of the Australian Medical Association |access-date=18 November 2023 }}</ref>

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||[[Richard Sanders Rogers]] ||Medical pioneer; authority on Australian orchids

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||[[Arthur Seaforth Blackburn]]&nbsp;{{post-nominals|country=AUS|VC}},&nbsp;{{post-nominals|country=AUS|CMG}} ||Soldier, lawyer and coroner; winner of the [[Victoria Cross]] for most conspicuous bravery at [[Pozières#History|Pozières]]; member of the South Australian Parliament<ref>{{cite encyclopedia| last = Blackburn | first = R.A | encyclopedia = Australian Dictionary of Biography| title = Blackburn, Arthur Seaforth (1892–1960)| url = https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/blackburn-arthur-seaforth-5256| access-date = 18 November 2023|year = 1979| publisher = Melbourne University Press| volume = 7| location = Melbourne| pages = 307–308}}</ref>

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||Colonel Walter Dollman&nbsp;{{post-nominals|country=AUS|VD}} ||Commander of the 27th Battalion that saw service in Egypt, Gallipoli and the Somme; president of the Old Scholars Association

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||Flight Lieutenant William David Kenny&nbsp;{{post-nominals|country=AUS|DFC}} ||As a [[Royal Australian Air Force|RAAF]] member of the elite target-marking [[Pathfinder (RAF)|Pathfinder Force]] of [[Royal Air Force|RAF]] Bomber Command, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross after a very hazardous mission over Hamburg. His role, as [[RAF Bomber Command aircrew of World War II#New trades and additional aircrew|observer]], was to navigate the bomber to the target and to release the bomb load.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.saam.org.au/history_group_docs/SAAM%20Biography%20-%20KENNY%20William%20David%20(Dave)%20.pdf |title=South Australian Aviation Museum: significant aviator & aviation events profiles – FLTLT William David "Dave" Kenny |last=Leatherland |first=Ivan |date=2019 |website=South Australian Aviation Museum |access-date=18 November 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url= https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/43487451|title=04 Apr 1945 - D.F.C. for four South Australians - Trove|newspaper=Advertiser |date=4 April 1945 }}</ref>

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||Brigadier General [[Stanley Price Weir]]&nbsp;{{post-nominals|country=AUS|DSO|VD}} ||Public servant and [[Australian Army]] officer

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||[[Bruce Abernethy]] ||AFL player and sports news reader

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||[[Michael Aish (footballer)|Michael Aish]] ||[[Magarey Medal]] winner 1981

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||[[Harry Blinman]] ||Renowned South Australian cricketer and president of the [[South Australian Cricket Association]]

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||[[Josh Francou]] ||[[Magarey Medal]] winner 1996, player for [[North Adelaide Roosters]] ([[South Australian National Football League|SANFL]]) and [[Port Adelaide Football Club]] ([[Australian Football League|AFL]]) Australian rules football clubs

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||Maurice P. Hutton ||Cricketer and footballer<ref>{{cite news |title=Obituary: death of Mr. M.P. Hutton |url= https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/41652557 |author=<!--Not stated--> |newspaper=[[The Advertiser (Adelaide)|The Advertiser]] |issn=1039-4192 |location= Original, Adelaide; digital reprint, Canberra|via=National Library of Australia – [[Trove]] digital newspaper archive |date=21 February 1940 |volume=LXXXII |issue=25,391 |page=12 |access-date=12 December 2023}}</ref>

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||[[Andrew Leipus]] ||Sports physiotherapist

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||[[Jordan McMahon]] ||AFL player for the [[Richmond Tigers]]

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||[[Lloyd Pope]] ||Under 19 Australian cricketer

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||[[Michael Burden]] ||Fellow in Music, Dean and Chattels Fellow at [[New College, Oxford]]; Director of New Chamber Opera, and Professor of Opera Studies in the Faculty of Music, [[University of Oxford]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/michael-burden |title=Michael Burden &#124; New College |access-date=18 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140518171755/http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/michael-burden |archive-date=18 May 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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||[[Peter Dawson (bass-baritone)|Peter Dawson]] ||Internationally acclaimed bass-baritone and songwriter

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||[[Lewis Fitz-Gerald]] || Actor

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||Rhett Giles ||Actor (stage and film) and producer<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1065316/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t3|title = Rhett Giles| website=[[IMDb]] }}</ref>

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||Keith Phillips ||Photographer, official photographer of [[University of Adelaide]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/agsa/home/Exhibitions/Past_Exhibitions/2007/acenturyinfocus.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180819061505/https://www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/agsa/home/Exhibitions/Past_Exhibitions/2007/acenturyinfocus.html|archive-date=2018-08-19|title=A Century in Focus|website=artgallery.sa.gov.au}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.adelaide.edu.au/uni-collections/pdf/archive/2007/keith_phillips.pdf|title=Keith Phillips}}</ref>

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||Jed Richards ||Writer; author of ''One Long Day''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/JedRichards|title=Jed Richards|website=Smashwords}}</ref>

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||[[Jeffrey Smart]] ||Expatriate Australian artist who forged a distinctive style of realist painting with metaphysical overtones, widely regarded as Australia's greatest living painter until his death in 2013<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/entertainment/arts/search-for-pulteney-grammar-student-terry-subject-of-jeffrey-smart-painting/news-story/285b7b1ea78d641df136c770c9243f45|title=Search for Jeffrey Smart's 'Terry'|date=23 June 2013|website=www.adelaidenow.com.au}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/jeffrey-smart-a-modern-australian-master-20140529-395yc.html|title=Jeffrey Smart: a modern Australian master |first=John |last=McDonald |date=29 May 2014|website=The Sydney Morning Herald}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/artists/smart-jeffrey/ |title=Jeffrey Smart |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2023 |website=Art Gallery of New South Wale |access-date=19 November 2023 }}</ref>

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||[[Harold Thomas (activist)|Harold Thomas]] ||Designer of the [[Australian Aboriginal Flag]]; first Aboriginal student of Pulteney

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||[[Sean Williams (author)|Sean Williams]] ||[[Science fiction]] writer

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||Colin Blore Bednall ||Journalist and media manager, editor and director of Queensland Newspapers Pty Ltd<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bednall-colin-blore-9469|title=Australian Dictionary of Biography|first=Patrick|last=Morgan|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |chapter=Bednall, Colin Blore (1913–1976)}}</ref>

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||Oscar Lionel&nbsp;Isaachsen ||Banker<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://users.picknowl.com.au/~stanbatten/default.11adelpotter.html|title=The Bank of Adelaide Story|website=users.picknowl.com.au}}</ref>

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||Alan Scott Martin ||Assistant chief valuer of the Land Tax Department, member of the Australian Land Board<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1080/00050326.1958.10440382 | volume=17 | issue=2 | title=Obituary | journal=Australian Surveyor | page=133| year=1958 }}</ref>

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||[[Joseph Albert Riley]] ||Prominent Adelaide businessman, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, philanthropist, awarded the [[King Albert Medal]] for services in [[World War I]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Death of Mr. J.A. Riley |url= https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/35659062 |author=<!--Not stated--> |newspaper=[[The Advertiser (Adelaide)|The Advertiser]] |issn=1039-4192 |location=Original, Adelaide; digital reprint, Canberra|via=National Library of Australia – [[Trove]] digital newspaper archive |date=8 January 1940 |volume=LXXXII |issue=25,353 |page=16 |access-date=12 December 2023}}</ref>

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[[File:Arthur Blackburn J03069A.JPG|thumb|left|200px|[[Arthur Blackburn|Brigadier Arthur Seaforth Blackburn]] served in [[World War I]], in which he won the [[Victoria Cross]]. During [[World War II]] he became a prisoner of war. He subsequently had a distinguished legal career and contributed significantly to South Australia's public life.]]

==Controversy==

In 2009, heritage groups and members of the public criticised Pulteney's plan to demolish a two-storey bluestone mansion within the school's boundary. The building was not heritage listed, but it was one of the last remaining mansions on South Terrace and had been recommended for conservation under Adelaide's Townscape List. The school went ahead with demolition,<ref name=tennews>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTSs8M4tBmw |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/WTSs8M4tBmw |archive-date=15 December 2021 |url-status=live|title=Ten News Adelaide: Pulteney Grammar to demolish Morgan Building|date=9 July 2009 |via=www.youtube.com}}{{cbignore}}</ref> citing a need to act quickly to take advantage of the [[National fiscal policy response to the Great Recession#Second stimulus|national economic stimulus program]] following the [[Late-2000s recession in Australasia|2007–2010 global financial crisis]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.deewr.gov.au/Schooling/BuildingTheEducationRevolution/Pages/default.aspx |title=Building the Education Revolution |work=Nation Building: Economic Stimulus Plan |publisher=Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations |accessdate=1 September 2023 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100417041604/http://www.deewr.gov.au/schooling/buildingtheeducationrevolution/Pages/default.aspx |archive-date=17 April 2010 }}</ref> and that retaining the building was neither practical nor affordable.<ref name=tennews/>

In August 2023, a petition was circulated by self-described "members of the Pulteney community" complaining about changes in the school's culture; the departure or reassignment of teachers, which had caused a deficit of experience and unreasonable expectations of remaining staff; a decline in university entrance scores and primary-level pupil assessments; and changes such as the merging of its middle school and the previously self-contained unit for year 11 and 12 students. The school's board promptly engaged an independent firm to conduct a review of its leadership, to be completed by mid-October.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/subscribe/news/1/?sourceCode=AAWEB_WRE170_a&dest=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.adelaidenow.com.au%2Fsouth-australia-education%2Fpulteney-grammar-school-board-launches-review-into-leadership%2Fnews-story%2Ffb8c3b31f7e537d91ef333b247a3fb9f&memtype=anonymous&mode=premium&v21=dynamic-low-test-score&V21spcbehaviour=append |title=School leaders 'must go' |first=Lauren |last=Novak |newspaper=[[The Advertiser (Adelaide)|The Advertiser]] |location=Adelaide |date=1 September 2023 |access-date=1 September 2023 |page=4 }} [[File:Lock-red-alt-2.svg|9px|link=|alt=Paid subscription required|Paid subscription required]] <code>subscription</code>: the source is only accessible via a paid subscription ("[[paywall]]").</ref> The school's principal, Cameron Bacholer, who was appointed in 2020, resigned on 10&nbsp;October.<ref name= award/>

==Notes==

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==References==

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== Further reading ==

* Ray, William R. (1973). ''Pulteney Grammar School 1847–1972: a record''. Pulteney Grammar School. Adelaide. {{ISBN|0959921400}}.

* Brunton, Kenneth; Greet, Frank H.; and Moore, John R. (1997). ''Pulteney Grammar School 1847–1997: a record [by W.R. Ray]; revised and brought up to date''. Pulteney Grammar School. Adelaide. {{ISBN|1862544158}}.

* Goulding, Lingard (2020). ''Under the kurrajong trees: Pulteney Grammar School from 1847 until 2020''. Pulteney Grammar School. Adelaide. {{ISBN| 9780646828015}}.