Background
Rolfe was one of seven siblings, the youngest son of James Rolfe and his wife Ellen Pilcher. His father"s piano business was not prospering and, in 1879, he arranged for Rolfe to be "clothed" at Christ"s Hospital.
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Alfred Rolfe
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Christ"s Hospital.
Career
Rolfe left the school in 1887 and began his studies for the Anglican ministry. In 1889 he emigrated to Australia, where in 1893 he was ordained a deacon for the Diocese of Newcastle. The following year, however, he was suspended from his ministry by the bishop for reasons which remain unclear.
In 1904, Rolfe began a nine-year stint as headmaster of Wolaroi Grammar, now Kinross Wolaroi School, in Orange.
In 1908 he was at last ordained to the Anglican priesthood. After a time at Street Peter"s College in Adelaide, he became acting headmaster of Barker College in Sydney before founding his own school, Malvern School, in Hunters Hill, again in Sydney.
He was headmaster of Malvern from 1915 until his death in 1941.
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Englishman