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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. Driscoll, Cornelius (1782–1847) public servant and banker
  2. Drennan, Frederick (1779–1837) public servant
  3. Draper, Daniel James (1810–1866) Wesleyan Methodist minister
  4. Doyle, Cyrus Matthew (1793–1855) pastoralist
  5. Dowling, Sir James (1787–1844) judge
  6. Dowling, Henry (1780–1869) Baptist minister
  7. Dowling, Henry (1810–1885) printer, publisher, bank manager and philanthropist
  8. Douglass, Henry Grattan (1790–1865) doctor of medicine and public servant
  9. Dore, Richard (1749–1800) deputy judge advocate
  10. Donohoe, John (Jack) (1806–1830) bushranger
  11. Dodd, Henry Edward (1752–1791) farmhand
  12. Docker, Joseph (1793–1865) Church of England clergyman and settler
  13. Dobie, John (1794–1866) naval surgeon and grazier
  14. Dixon, Robert (1800–1858) surveyor and explorer
  15. Dixon, James (1758–1840) Roman Catholic priest
  16. Divine, Nicholas (1739–1830) superintendent of convicts
  17. Dillon, Peter (1788–1847) adventurer
  18. Dickson, John (1774–1843) engineer, manufacturer, and grazier
  19. de Mestre, Jean Charles Prosper (1789–1844) merchant
  20. de Little, Robert (1808–1876) architect, builder and merchant
  21. de la Condamine, Thomas (1797–1873) soldier
  22. Degraves, Peter (1778–1852) engineer, shipbuilder and factory owner
  23. de Gillern, William (1787–1857) soldier and settler
  24. Deane, John Philip (1796–1849) musician
  25. Day, Edward Denny (1801–1876) police magistrate
  26. Dawson, Robert (1782–1866) company agent and pastoralist
  27. Dawes, William (1762–1836) officer of marines, scientist and administrator
  28. Dawbin, Annie Maria (1816–1905) pioneer and diarist
  29. Davy, Edward (1806–1885) medical practitioner
  30. Davis, James (1808–1889) absconder and shopkeeper
  31. Davis, Edward (1816–1841) Jewish convict and bushranger
  32. Davis, Charles Henry (1815–1854) Catholic bishop
  33. Davies, Robert Rowland (1805–1880) Church of England clergyman
  34. Davies, Arthur (1786–1853) naval officer and landowner
  35. Davidson, Walter Stevenson (1785–1869) landowner, merchant and banker
  36. Davey, Thomas (1758–1823) lieutenant-governor and royal marine
  37. Dashwood, George Frederick (1806–1881) naval officer and public servant
  38. Darwin, Charles Robert (1809–1882) naturalist
  39. Darling, Sir Ralph (1772–1858) military officer and governor
  40. Darke, John Charles (1806–1844) surveyor and explorer
  41. Dangar, Henry (1796–1861) surveyor and pastoralist
  42. Dana, James Dwight (1813–1895) mineralogist and geologist
  43. Dana, Henry Edward Pulteney (1820–1852) soldier and police officer
  44. Dampier, William (1651–1715) seaman and author
  45. Dalrymple, Ernest George (1820–1844) pioneer
  46. Dalrymple, Alexander (1737–1808) hydrographer and propagandist
  47. Dacre, Ranulph (1797–1884) master mariner and merchant
  48. Cuthbertson, John (?–1823) commandant of convicts
  49. Cussen, Patrick Edward (1792–1849) medical practitioner
  50. Curtis, Anthony (1796–1853) merchant and whaler
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