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Australian Dictionary of Biography, Supplement

This volume of the Australian Dictionary of Biography is a supplement to the first sixteen volumes and covers the period 1580-1980. [Read More]

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  1. Grimstone, Mary Leman (1796–1869) author and feminist
  2. Griffiths, Walter (1867–1900) mining investor and politician
  3. Griffith, Mary Harriett (1849–1930) philanthropist
  4. Greenham, Eleanor Constance (Ella) (1874–1957) medical practitioner
  5. Green, Anne Syrett (1858–1936) welfare worker and evangelist
  6. Green, Alexander (1802–?) flogger and public executioner
  7. Gray, Robert (1839–1931) military officer and pastoralist
  8. Grave, Octavia (1890–1974)
  9. Grave, James (1848–1906) investor
  10. Grace, Henry Albert (1885–1966) electrician and bird enthusiast
  11. Gowing, John Ellis Symonds (1835–1908) retailer
  12. Goward, Raymond Spencer (1891–1979) chartered accountant and Australian Comforts Fund commissioner
  13. Gordon, Ann (1795–1868) female factory superintendent
  14. Gooseberry, Cora (1777–1852) Aboriginal woman
  15. Goodlet, Elizabeth Mary (1854–1926) church worker and philanthropist
  16. Goodlet, Ann Alison (1824–1903) church worker and philanthropist
  17. Gisborne, Frederic Augustus Wingfield (1860–1934) conservative ideologue
  18. Girdlestone, Tharp Mountain (1823–1899) surgeon, politician and sanitary reformer
  19. Girardin, Marie-Louise Victoire (1754–1794) ship’s steward and cross-dresser
  20. Giorza, Paolo (1832–1914) musician
  21. Ginn, Henry (1818–1892) architect, company secretary and pastoralist
  22. Gibson, Julia (1872–1953) fortune-teller
  23. Gibson, Sir Frank Ernest (1878–1965) pharmacist and politician
  24. Gether, Susanne Vilhelmine (1857–1911) woodcarver
  25. Furneaux, Tobias (1735–1781) navigator
  26. Fryer, Jane (1832–1917) political and religious radical
  27. Frost, Lillian Mary (1870–1953) organist
  28. Fraser, Eliza Anne (1798–1858) shipwreck victim and source of myth and legend
  29. Francis, Susan (1877–1946) midwife and political activist
  30. Fraire, Chiaffredo Venerano (1852–1931) merchant and immigration agent
  31. Foy, Harry Sidney (1901–1942) barman and female impersonator
  32. Fortune, Mary Helena (1833–1911) author
  33. Forsyth, Ida Muriel (1884–1953) nurse and community worker
  34. Forster, William Frear (1857–1932) newspaper editor
  35. Forrest, Mabel (1872–1935) writer
  36. Forlong, Eliza (1784–1859) pastoralist
  37. Forde, Florrie (1875–1940) music hall artist
  38. Flower, Sara Elizabeth (1823–1865) opera singer and teacher of singing
  39. Fernando, Anthony Martin (1864–1949) Aboriginal activist and toymaker
  40. Fennescey, Mary Jane (1878–1946) church benefactor
  41. Fennescey, John (1866–1948) church benefactor
  42. Fell, Helen Wilson (1849–1935) diarist and philanthropist
  43. Farrell, James (1803–1869) clergyman
  44. Farr, Julia Warren (1824–1914) charity worker
  45. Farr, Clinton Coleridge (1866–1943) physicist
  46. Fantin, Francesco Giovanni (Frank) (1901–1942) labourer and anti-fascist
  47. Falleni, Eugenia (1875–1938) convicted murderer
  48. Fairthorne, Landon (1832–1890)
  49. Fairthorne, Frederick Kirk (1846–1919) pharmacist and entrepreneur
  50. Eyre, Joyce Eileen (1909–1950) teacher and academic
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