Adolphe Emile Marval

Adolphe Emile Marval (c. 1845 – 11 July 1935) was a French-born educator and art dealer in Adelaide, South Australia. His first wife Anna ( – 25 February 1905) was a German-born educator; his second wife Caroline (c. 1861 – 7 January 1941) was a philanthropist and abortionist.

Adolphe Marval was born in France and may have taught at Ecclesall College, Sheffield before he came to South Australia in 1864 to teach at St. Peter's College. He also conducted private classes and taught at other private schools, notably J. L. Young's Adelaide Educational Institution. He was hon. secretary of the French Relief Fund committee in 1871. In May 1884 he signed the Oath of Allegiance to become a naturalised British subject. He was appointed Justice of the Peace, resigned 1887.

He married Anna Thilo, daughter of Professor Wilhelm Thilo of Berlin, on 25 June 1872. She had been awarded a diploma (Geprũfte Lehrerin fũr Preußen) from the Ladies' University of Berlin, and came to South Australia as a governess for the children of Sir James Fergusson. Following a return to Europe in 1873, the Marvals returned to Adelaide, where he worked as tutor and she as head of a school for young ladies, operating from Ramsay House, once the home of Dr. Gosse on the Rundle Place (now Gawler Place) corner of North Terrace. She took boarders and day pupils, and taught singing, dancing and deportment, as well as French. Anna Montgomerie Martin was one of her teachers. In December 1874 they took over the staff and students of Miss Senner's school, Palm House, Hackney.

By 1878 he was a ratepayer of Brighton and in 1882 Mme. Marval's academy was operating at their home "De la Haye" on Brighton Road. In that year he became a member of Brighton Council. He was appointed chairman of the Brighton Board of Health and elected mayor of Brighton in 1884. He was a director of the Brighton Tramway Company (or Glenelg, Brighton and Marino Tramway Company). In 1880 Mme. Marval began teaching music, gratis, to blind students.

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