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Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1

This volume of the Australian Dictionary of Biography is the first of two for the period 1788-1850 and covers names A-H. [Read More]

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  1. Harris, John (1754–1819) missionary and schoolmaster
  2. Harris, John (1754–1838) surgeon, public servant and landholder
  3. Harrison, James (1816–1893) journalist and inventor
  4. Hassall, Rowland (1768–1820) preacher and landholder
  5. Hassall, Thomas (1794–1868) Anglican clergyman
  6. Hawdon, Joseph (1813–1871) pioneer and overlander
  7. Hawkins, Thomas Fitzherbert (1781–1837) naval officer and pioneer settler
  8. Hay, Alexander (1820–1898) merchant, pastoralist and politician
  9. Hay, Robert William (1786–1861) public servant
  10. Hayes, Sir Henry Browne (1762–1832) convict adventurer
  11. Hayes, Sir John (1768–1831) naval officer and explorer
  12. Hayes, Michael (1767–1825) dealer and leading Roman Catholic layman
  13. Hellyer, Henry (1790–1832) explorer and surveyor
  14. Helpman, Benjamin Franklin (1814–1874) sailor and harbourmaster
  15. Hely, Frederick Augustus (1794–1836) public servant and settler
  16. Henry, William (1770–1859) preacher
  17. Henslowe, Francis Hartwell (1811–1878) civil servant and composer
  18. Henty, Charles Shum (1807–1864) pioneer
  19. Henty, Edward (1810–1878) pioneer
  20. Henty, Francis (1815–1889) pioneer
  21. Henty, James (1800–1882) pioneer
  22. Henty, Jane (1805–1893) pioneer
  23. Henty, John (1813–1869) pioneer
  24. Henty, Stephen George (1811–1872) explorer, merchant and trader
  25. Henty, Thomas (1775–1839) pioneer
  26. Henty, William (1808–1881) solicitor
  27. Heydon, Jabez King (1815–1885) printer and publisher
  28. Hibbins, Thomas (1762–1816) deputy judge advocate
  29. Hill, Richard (1782–1836) Church of England clergyman
  30. Hill, Samuel Prout (1821–1861) poet, lecturer, artist and public servant
  31. Hindmarsh, Sir John (1785–1860) governor of South Australia
  32. Hipkiss, Richard (1772–1853) agriculturist and reformer
  33. Hobart, Robert (1760–1816) soldier and politician
  34. Hobbs, James (1792–1880) explorer
  35. Hobler, George (1800–1882) grazier
  36. Hobson, Edmund Charles (1814–1848) physician and naturalist
  37. Hobson, Edward William (1816–1890) grazier
  38. Hobson, William (1793–1842) naval officer and governor
  39. Hoddle, Robert (1794–1881) surveyor
  40. Hogan, Michael (?–1833) merchant and shipowner
  41. Hogan, Patrick Gould (1777–1860) public servant and farmer
  42. Holden, John Rose (1810–1860) soldier and settler
  43. Holt, Joseph (1756–1826) Irish rebel and farmer
  44. Hone, Joseph (1784–1861) lawyer and civil servant
  45. Hook, Charles (1762–1826) merchant
  46. Hopkins, Henry (1787–1870) merchant and philanthropist
  47. Hopley, William (?–1815) surgeon
  48. Horton, Sir Robert Wilmot (1784–1841) politician, public servant and pamphleteer
  49. Hosking, John (1806–1882) merchant and mayor
  50. Houtman, Frederik de (1571–1627) senior officer of the Dutch East India Company
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