Australian Dictionary of Biography

27 September 1856
Fetteresso, Kincardineshire, Scotland

30 October 1921
Baulkham Hills, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Scottish

• school principal (1881-1885) Queensland, Australia
• schoolteacher (1885-1892) Queensland, Australia
• Orientalist (1888-1892) Queensland, Australia
• novelist (1889-1892) Queensland, Australia
• short story writer (1889-1892) Queensland, Australia
• historian (general) (1893-1917) Overseas
• Orientalist (1893-1917) Overseas
• academic (1917-1921) Australian Capital Territory, Australia
• academic (1917-1921) New South Wales, Australia
• historian (general) (1917-1921) New South Wales, Australia
• historian (general) (1917-1921) Australian Capital Territory, Australia