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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. Cordeaux, William (1792–1839) land commissioner
  2. Cory, Edward Gostwyck (1797–1873) pastoralist
  3. Cotter, Thomas Young (1805–1882) medical practitioner
  4. Cotton, Francis (1801–1883) Quaker and settler
  5. Cotton, Hugh Calveley (1798–1881) engineer and surveyor
  6. Cotton, John (1802–1849) pastoralist and naturalist
  7. Cotton, Sir Sydney John (1792–1874) military officer
  8. Cover, James Fleet (1762–1834) Congregational minister
  9. Coverdale, John (1814–1896) medical practitioner
  10. Cowper, William (1778–1858) archdeacon
  11. Cox, Frederick Holdship (1821–1906) Anglican clergyman
  12. Cox, James (1790–1866) landowner
  13. Cox, John Edward (1791–1837) auctioneer and coach proprietor
  14. Cox, Samuel Emanuel (Sam) (1773–1891) wild white man
  15. Cox, William (1764–1837) military officer, roadmaker and builder
  16. Crook, William Pascoe (1775–1846) missionary, schoolmaster and Congregational pastor
  17. Crookes, John (1805–1870) merchant, churchman and politician
  18. Cross, John (1781–1858) Church of England clergyman
  19. Crossley, George (1749–1823) attorney and convict
  20. Crowder, Thomas Restell (1758–1824) convict and superintendent
  21. Crummer, James Henry (1792–1867) soldier and magistrate
  22. Cunningham, Allan (1791–1839) botanist and explorer
  23. Cunningham, Peter Miller (1789–1864) naval surgeon and author
  24. Cunningham, Richard (1793–1835) botanist
  25. Curr, Edward (1798–1850) company manager
  26. Curtis, Anthony (1796–1853) merchant and whaler
  27. Cussen, Patrick Edward (1792–1849) medical practitioner
  28. Cuthbertson, John (?–1823) commandant of convicts
  29. Dacre, Ranulph (1797–1884) master mariner and merchant
  30. Dalrymple, Alexander (1737–1808) hydrographer and propagandist
  31. Dalrymple, Ernest George (1820–1844) pioneer
  32. Dampier, William (1651–1715) seaman and author
  33. Dana, Henry Edward Pulteney (1820–1852) soldier and police officer
  34. Dana, James Dwight (1813–1895) mineralogist and geologist
  35. Dangar, Henry (1796–1861) surveyor and pastoralist
  36. Darke, John Charles (1806–1844) surveyor and explorer
  37. Darling, Sir Ralph (1772–1858) military officer and governor
  38. Darwin, Charles Robert (1809–1882) naturalist
  39. Dashwood, George Frederick (1806–1881) naval officer and public servant
  40. Davey, Thomas (1758–1823) lieutenant-governor and royal marine
  41. Davidson, Walter Stevenson (1785–1869) landowner, merchant and banker
  42. Davies, Arthur (1786–1853) naval officer and landowner
  43. Davies, Robert Rowland (1805–1880) Church of England clergyman
  44. Davis, Charles Henry (1815–1854) Catholic bishop
  45. Davis, Edward (1816–1841) Jewish convict and bushranger
  46. Davis, James (1808–1889) absconder and shopkeeper
  47. Davy, Edward (1806–1885) medical practitioner
  48. Dawbin, Annie Maria (1816–1905) pioneer and diarist
  49. Dawes, William (1762–1836) officer of marines, scientist and administrator
  50. Dawson, Robert (1782–1866) company agent and pastoralist
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