Arnold Buntine

Arnold Buntine
Personal information
Full name Martyn Arnold Buntine
Date of birth (1898-12-27)27 December 1898
Place of birth Caulfield, Victoria
Date of death 26 February 1975(1975-02-26) (aged 76)
Place of death Kilsyth, Victoria
Original team(s) Caulfield / University
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1918 St Kilda 4 (0)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1918.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

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).[1]

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.[2] 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.[3]

Buntine was the son of educationalist Walter Murray Buntine (1866–1953)[4] 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.[5] Their son was educationalist Robert Buntine of The King's School and Newington College.[6]

Notes

  1. ^ Holmesby, Russell; Main, Jim (2014). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (10th ed.). Seaford, Victoria: BAS Publishing. p. 112. ISBN 978-1-921496-32-5.
  2. ^ "Personalities in the World of Sport". The Daily News. Vol. LIV, no. 18, 519. Western Australia. 25 July 1934. p. 2. Retrieved 26 May 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "Dr. Buntine For Geelong". The Daily News. Vol. LXIII, no. 21, 806. Western Australia. 24 February 1945. p. 4 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ "Buntine, Walter Murray (1866–1953)". Biography - Walter Murray Buntine - Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
  5. ^ "Buntine, Gladys Selby (Jim) (1901–1992)". Biography - Gladys Selby (Jim) Buntine - Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
  6. ^ BUNTINE, Robert Walter (1929–2014) – Heritage Guide to The Geelong College Retrieved 30 May 2016.