Colin Robert Badger (4 December 1906 – 8 August 1993), was an Australian adult education administrator.
Herbert's father was Scots-born Baptist minister David Gibson Jude Badger, important in the development of the Baptist Church in South Australia's Mid North;[2] Lena was daughter of William Nicholls of Booboorowie.
[3] Badger's parents, who ran a haberdashery business, left Petersburg around 1916 and settled in the Adelaide suburb of Kent Town, around 1918 moving to 6 Fife Avenue Torrens Park.
Badger attended North Adelaide Primary School 1911–17, Mitcham Primary 1918–19, and Unley High School 1920–23, when he was expelled for petty theft, and he found work as a laboratory assistant at the University of Adelaide.
He was employed as a lecturer by the Workers' Educational Association in Adelaide and Perth.