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Date of Death: 01 February

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  1. Macdermott, Henry (1798–1848) merchant and politician
  2. Harington, Thomas Cudbert (1798–1863) public servant and company official
  3. Mitchell, James (1792–1869) physician and industrialist
  4. Harris, Alexander (1805–1874) author
  5. Wright, William Henry (1816–1877) gold commissioner and public servant
  6. Reid, John (1825–1882) grazier
  7. James, Henry Kerrison (1814–1883) Anglican official
  8. Tinline, George (1815–1895) banker and pastoralist
  9. Officer, Charles Myles (1827–1904) pastoralist
  10. Davies, George Schoen (1841–1910) banker, company manager and accountant
  11. Stedman, James (1840–1913) confectionery manufacturer
  12. Boucaut, Sir James Penn (1831–1916) politician and judge
  13. Walton, Thomas Utrick (1852–1917) industrial chemist
  14. Ross, John (1833–1920) co-operative and radical
  15. Davies, Charles Ellis (1847–1921) newspaper proprietor and politician
  16. Barrett, Edith Helen (1872–1939) medical practitioner
  17. Burdett, Basil (1897–1942) journalist, art dealer and critic
  18. Fairfax, Ruth Beatrice (1878–1948) a founder of the Country Women's Association
  19. Carpenter, Sir Walter Randolph (1877–1954) merchant
  20. Rumsey, Herbert John (1866–1956) seedsman, horticulturist and genealogist
  21. Alcock, Alfred Upton (1865–1962) electrical engineer and inventor
  22. Bird, Margaret Henrietta (1888–1963) bookseller
  23. Glauert, Ludwig (1879–1963) museum curator
  24. Oldaker, Maxwell Charles (Max) (1907–1972) singer and actor
  25. Paten, Eunice Muriel Harriett Hunt (1883–1973) nurse
  26. Dease, Conly John Paget (Jack) (1906–1979) broadcaster and actor
  27. Bayliss, Cedric Alfred (Syd) (1899–1983) hawker, whip-maker and saddler
  28. Martin, Sir Leslie Harold (1900–1983) physicist
  29. Legg, John (1892–1984) veterinary scientist
  30. Hill, Edward Fowler (Ted) (1915–1988) barrister and communist activist
  31. Underwood, Erica Reid (1907–1992) psychologist, broadcaster, education administrator and community worker
  32. Anderson, John Herbert (Bert) (1899–1994) rural industry leader and stud cattle breeder and judge
  33. Wiltshire, Sir Frederick Munro (Fred) (1911–1994) manufacturer
  34. Dekyvere, Marcel France (1914–1997) wool broker
  35. Mahoney, James Charles (1907–1997) professor of French
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