Peter Waite

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Peter Waite (1834 - 1922) was a South Australian pastoralist and public benefactor.

Benefactions to the University of Adelaide allowed the university to establish the Waite Agricultural Research Institute which later became the Waite Campus of the university. The Waite Institute was established on the site in 1924 following a bequest of Urrbrae House and 300 acres from Mr Peter Waite. The objective of the bequest was "to advance the cause of education and more especially to promote the teaching and study of Agriculture and Forestry and allied subjects". The Waite has developed into an integrated research and teaching precinct that has been presented as a model for the collocation of agricultural research institutions.

Waite also gave an adjoining estate of 114 acres to the government of South Australia for the purpose of founding an agricultural high school: Urrbrae Agricultural High School.

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