Malvern is an inner-southern suburb of

Adelaide Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The dem ...

in the

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. It borders the suburbs of Unley and Parkside to the north, Highgate to the east, Kingswood to the south and Unley Park to the west. Many Malvern streets are planted with

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trees, a non-native

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species, giving a shady aspect to the area in conjunction with the predominant architectural style of single-storey colonial villas. Many of its streets are named after places in the

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, including

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, and

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Notable people

* Photographer Alfred Stump lived on Austral Terrace with his family, including his son,

Claude Stump Claude Witherington Stump FRSE (28 October 1891 – 23 December 1971) was an Australian embryologist who served in two wars. Life He was born at Austral Terrace in Malvern near Adelaide on 28 October 1891, the second child of Alfred Augustus St ...

. *

Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey (24 September 189821 February 1968) was an Australian pharmacology, pharmacologist and pathology, pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Ernst Chain, Sir Ernst Chain and ...

who received the

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in 1945 for his co-discovery of penicillin, was born in Malvern in 1898.

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Suburbs of Adelaide {{adelaide-geo-stub

Notable people

See also

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