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Book
- Title
- Dictionary of Australian biography
- Imprint
- Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1949
- Description
Published in two volumes: Volume 1, A-K; Volume 2, L-Z.
"Biographies of Australians, or men who were closely connected with Australia, who died before the end of 1942." -- Preface.
This work has been digitised as a CD-ROM, is transcribed as part of the Gutenberg Australia Project, is accessible online via subscription services, and can be downloaded from the National Centre of Biography, Australian National University: Volume 1 A-K; Volume 2, L-Z.
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- Atkinson, Caroline Louisa Waring (1834 - 1872)
- Baker, Richard Thomas (1854 - 1941)
- Bancroft, Joseph (1836 - 1894)
- Banfield, Edmund James (1852 - 1923)
- Banks, Joseph (1743 - 1820)
- Barney, George (1792 - 1862)
- Barrallier, Francis Louis (1773 - 1853)
- Barry, Redmond (1813 - 1880)
- Basedow, Herbert (1881 - 1933)
- Bass, George (1771 - 1803)
- Bauer, Ferdinand Lukas (1760 - 1826)
- Bennett, George (1804 - 1893)
- Bidwill, John Carne (1815 - 1853)
- Blaxland, Gregory (1778 - 1853)
- Bragg, William Henry (1862 - 1942)
- Brennan, Louis (1852 - 1932)
- Brisbane, Thomas Makdougall (1773 - 1860)
- Brown, Henry Yorke Lyell (1844 - 1928)
- Brown, Robert (1773 - 1858)
- Browne, John Harris (1817 - 1904)
- Burke, Robert O'Hara (1821 - 1861)
- Busby, James (1801 - 1871)
- Busby, John (1765 - 1857)
- Cadell, Francis (1822 - 1879)
- Caley, George (1770 - 1829)
- Cambage, Richard Hind (1859 - 1928)
- Carter, Herbert James (1858 - 1940)
- Chaffey, George (1848 - 1932)
- Chaffey, William Benjamin (1856 - 1926)
- Chewings, Charles (1859 - 1937)
- Clarke, Andrew (1824 - 1902)
- Clarke, William Branwhite (1798 - 1878)
- Coghlan, Timothy Augustine (1855 - 1926)
- Cook, James (1728 - 1779)
- Cunningham, Allan (1791 - 1839)
- Curr, Edward Micklethwaite (1820 - 1889)
- Daintree, Richard (1832 - 1878)
- Dampier, William (1651 - 1715)
- David, Tannatt William Edgeworth (1858 - 1934)
- Davy, Edward (1806 - 1885)
- Dawes, William (1762 - 1836)
- de Burgh, Ernest Macartney (1863 - 1929)
- Deane, Henry (1847 - 1924)
- Delprat, Guillaume Daniel (1856 - 1937)
- Denison, William Thomas (1804 - 1871)
- Dietrich, Koncordie Amalie (1821 - 1891)
- Drummond, James (c. 1786 - 1863)
- Dunlop, James (1793 - 1848)
- Dunn, Edward John (1844 - 1937)
- Ellery, Robert Lewis John (1827 - 1908)
- Embley, Edward Henry (1861 - 1924)
- Etheridge, Robert (Junior) (1847 - 1920)
- Evans, George William (1780 - 1852)
- Ewart, Alfred James (1872 - 1937)
- Eyre, Edward John (1815 - 1901)
- Farrer, William James (1845 - 1906)
- Favenc, Ernest (1845 - 1908)
- Felton, Alfred (1831 - 1904)
- Fison, Lorimer (1832 - 1907)
- FitzGerald, Robert David (1830 - 1892)
- Fletcher, Joseph James (1850 - 1926)
- Flinders, Matthew (1774 - 1814)
- Forrest, Alexander (1849 - 1901)
- Forrest, John (1847 - 1918)
- Franklin, John (1786 - 1847)
- French, Charles (1842 - 1933)
- Froggatt, Walter Wilson (1858 - 1937)
- Gilbert, John (1812 - 1845)
- Gillen, Francis James (1855 - 1912)
- Gipps, George (1791 - 1847)
- Gould, John (1804 - 1881)
- Grayson, Henry Joseph (1856 - 1918)
- Greenway, Francis (1777 - 1837)
- Gregory, Augustus Charles (1819 - 1905)
- Gregory, Francis Thomas (Frank) (1821 - 1888)
- Gregory, John Walter (1864 - 1932)
- Grimes, Charles (1772 - 1858)
- Guilfoyle, William Robert (1840 - 1912)
- Gunn, Ronald Campbell (1808 - 1881)
- Guthrie, Frederick Bickell (1861 - 1927)
- Halford, George Britton (1824 - 1910)
- Hall, Thomas Sergeant (1858 - 1915)
- Hargrave, Lawrence (1850 - 1915)
- Harris, Samuel Henry (1881 - 1936)
- Harrison, James (1816? - 1893)
- Haswell, William Aitcheson (1854 - 1925)
- Hawker, Harry George (1889 - 1921)
- Hayter, Henry Heylyn (1821 - 1895)
- Hedley, Charles (1862 - 1926)
- Hoddle, Robert (1794 - 1881)
- Hovell, William Hilton (1786 - 1875)
- Howchin, Walter (1845 - 1937)
- Howitt, Alfred William (1830 - 1908)
- Hume, Hamilton (1797 - 1873)
- Hunter, John Irvine (1898 - 1924)
- Jack, Robert Logan (1845 - 1921)
- Jansz, Willem (? - 1628)
- Johnston, Robert Mackenzie (1843 - 1918)
- Jones, Henry (1862 - 1926)
- Kennedy, Edmund Besley Court (1818 - 1848)
- Kernot, William Charles (1845 - 1909)
- King, Phillip Parker (1791 - 1856)
- Knibbs, George Handley (1858 - 1929)
- Krefft, Johann Ludwig Gerard (Gerard) (1830 - 1881)
- La Pérouse, Jean-François de Galaup (1741 - 1788)
- La Trobe, Charles Joseph (1801 - 1875)
- Lamb, Horace (1849 - 1934)
- Lawson, Abercrombie Anstruther (1870 - 1927)
- Lawson, William (1774 - 1850)
- Lea, Arthur Mills (1868 - 1932)
- Leach, John Albert (1870 - 1929)
- Legge, William Vincent (1841 - 1918)
- Leichhardt, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig (1813 - 1848?)
- Lennox, David (1788 - 1873)
- Lewin, John William (1770 - 1819)
- Light, William (1786 - 1839)
- Lindsay, David (1856 - 1922)
- Liversidge, Archibald (1846 - 1927)
- Lowrie, William (1857 - 1933)
- Lucas, Arthur Henry Shakespeare (1853 - 1936)
- Macarthur, John (1767 - 1834)
- Mackellar, Charles Kinnaird (1844 - 1926)
- MacKenzie, William Colin (1877 - 1938)
- Macleay, William John (1820 - 1891)
- Macleay, William Sharp (1792 - 1865)
- Maiden, Joseph Henry (1859 - 1925)
- Mais, Henry Coathupe (1827 - 1916)
- Maitland, Herbert Lethington (1868 - 1923)
- Masson, David Orme (1858 - 1937)
- Mathew, John (1849 - 1929)
- McCoy, Frederick (1817 - 1899)
- McCulloch, Allan Riverstone (1885 - 1925)
- McIlwraith, Thomas (1835 - 1900)
- McKay, Hugh Victor (1865 - 1926)
- McKinlay, John (1819 - 1872)
- McLaren, Samuel Bruce (1876 - 1916)
- McLeay, Alexander (1767 - 1848)
- McMillan, Angus (1810 - 1865)
- Meehan, James (1774 - 1826)
- Michell, John Henry (1863 - 1940)
- Mitchell, Thomas Livingstone (1792 - 1855)
- Monash, John (1865 - 1931)
- Moncrieff, Alexander Bain (1845 - 1928)
- Mort, Thomas Sutcliffe (1816 - 1878)
- Mueller, Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von (1825 - 1896)
- Murray, Reginald Augustus Frederick (1846 - 1925)
- Neumayer, Georg Balthasar von (1826 - 1909)
- O'Connor, Charles Yelverton (1843 - 1902)
- Oxley, John Joseph William Molesworth (1784 - 1828)
- Paterson, William (1755 - 1810)
- Pigot, Edward Francis (1858 - 1929)
- Pollock, James Arthur (1865 - 1922)
- Ramsay, Edward Pierson (1842 - 1916)
- Randell, William Richard (1824 - 1911)
- Rennie, Edward Henry (1852 - 1927)
- Ridley, John (1806 - 1887)
- Robertson, Thorburn Brailsford (1884 - 1930)
- Rodway, Leonard (1853 - 1936)
- Roe, John Septimus (1797 - 1878)
- Rosenhain, Walter (1875 - 1934)
- Roth, Henry Ling (1855 - 1925)
- Roth, Walter Edmund (1861 - 1933)
- Rowan, Marian Ellis (1848 - 1922)
- Rümker, Christian Carl Ludwig (1788 - 1862)
- Russell, Henry Chamberlain (1836 - 1907)
- Russell, Peter Nicol (1816 - 1905)
- Russell, Robert (1808 - 1900)
- Russell, Robert Hamilton (1860 - 1933)
- Rutherford, James (1827 - 1911)
- Selwyn, Alfred Richard Cecil (1824 - 1902)
- Smith, Grafton Elliot (1871 - 1937)
- Smith, Henry George (1852 - 1924)
- Smith, John McGarvie (1844 - 1918)
- Smith, Ross Macpherson (1892 - 1922)
- Smith, William Ramsay (1859 - 1937)
- Smyth, Robert Brough (1830 - 1889)
- Solander, Daniel (1733 - 1782)
- Spencer, Walter Baldwin (1860 - 1929)
- Stawell, Richard Rawdon (1864 - 1935)
- Stawell, William Foster (1815 - 1889)
- Steele, Bertram Dillon (1870 - 1931)
- Sticht, Robert Carl (1856 - 1922)
- Stirling, Edward Charles (Ted) (1848 - 1919)
- Stokes, John Lort (1812 - 1885)
- Strzelecki, Paul Edmund de (1797 - 1873)
- Stuart, John McDouall (1815 - 1866)
- Stuart, Thomas Peter Anderson (1856 - 1920)
- Sturt, Charles (1795 - 1869)
- Sutherland, Alexander (1852 - 1902)
- Sutherland, William (1859 - 1911)
- Swinburne, George (1861 - 1928)
- Syme, George Adlington (1859 - 1929)
- Tasman, Abel Janszoon (1603? - 1659)
- Tate, Ralph (1840 - 1901)
- Taylor, George Augustine (1872 - 1928)
- Tebbutt, John (1834 - 1916)
- Tenison-Woods, Julian Edmund (1832 - 1889)
- Thompson, John Ashburton (1846 - 1915)
- Threlfall, Richard (1861 - 1932)
- Threlkeld, Lancelot Edward (1788 - 1859)
- Tillyard, Robin John (1881 - 1937)
- Todd, Charles (1826 - 1910)
- Twelvetrees, William Harper (1848 - 1919)
- Verco, Joseph Cooke (1851 - 1933)
- Verdon, George Frederic (1834 - 1896)
- Waite, Edgar Ravenswood (1866 - 1928)
- Waite, Peter (1834 - 1922)
- Warburton, Peter Egerton (1813 - 1889)
- Wardell, William Wilkinson (1823 - 1899)
- Warren, William Henry (1852 - 1926)
- Watson, Archibald (1849 - 1940)
- Wedge, John Helder (1793 - 1872)
- White, John (c. 1756 - 1832)
- Wilkinson, Charles Smith (1843 - 1891)
- Wills, William John (1834 - c. 1861)
- Woolls, William (1814 - 1893)
- Zeal, William Austin (1830 - 1912)