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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. Day, Edward Denny (1801–1876) police magistrate
  2. Deane, John Philip (1796–1849) musician
  3. de Gillern, William (1787–1857) soldier and settler
  4. Degraves, Peter (1778–1852) engineer, shipbuilder and factory owner
  5. de la Condamine, Thomas (1797–1873) soldier
  6. de Little, Robert (1808–1876) architect, builder and merchant
  7. de Mestre, Jean Charles Prosper (1789–1844) merchant
  8. Dickson, John (1774–1843) engineer, manufacturer, and grazier
  9. Dillon, Peter (1788–1847) adventurer
  10. Divine, Nicholas (1739–1830) superintendent of convicts
  11. Dixon, James (1758–1840) Roman Catholic priest
  12. Dixon, Robert (1800–1858) surveyor and explorer
  13. Dobie, John (1794–1866) naval surgeon and grazier
  14. Docker, Joseph (1793–1865) Church of England clergyman and settler
  15. Dodd, Henry Edward (1752–1791) farmhand
  16. Donohoe, John (Jack) (1806–1830) bushranger
  17. Dore, Richard (1749–1800) deputy judge advocate
  18. Douglass, Henry Grattan (1790–1865) doctor of medicine and public servant
  19. Dowling, Henry (1780–1869) Baptist minister
  20. Dowling, Henry (1810–1885) printer, publisher, bank manager and philanthropist
  21. Dowling, Sir James (1787–1844) judge
  22. Doyle, Cyrus Matthew (1793–1855) pastoralist
  23. Draper, Daniel James (1810–1866) Wesleyan Methodist minister
  24. Drennan, Frederick (1779–1837) public servant
  25. Driscoll, Cornelius (1782–1847) public servant and banker
  26. Druitt, George (1775–1842) military officer, public servant and settler
  27. Drummond, James (1787–1863) botanist and plant collector
  28. Drummond, John (?–?) public servant
  29. Drummond, Ralph (1792–1872) Presbyterian clergyman
  30. Dry, Richard (1771–1843) public servant and pastoralist
  31. Dry, Sir Richard (1815–1869) landowner and politician
  32. Drysdale, Anne (1792–1853) woman squatter
  33. Dulhunty, Robert Venour (1802–1853) landowner, commissioner of crown lands and magistrate
  34. Dumaresq, Edward (1802–1906) surveyor, public servant and landowner
  35. Dumaresq, Henry (1792–1838) public servant, landowner and grazier
  36. Dumaresq, William John (1793–1868) civil engineer
  37. Duncan, Handasyde (1811–1878) medical practitioner
  38. Duncan, William Augustine (1811–1885) journalist and public servant
  39. Dundas, Henry (1742–1811) British politician
  40. Dunlop, Eliza Hamilton (1796–1880) lyric writer and student of the Aboriginals
  41. Dunlop, James (1793–1848) astronomer
  42. Dunn, John (1790–1861) merchant and banker
  43. Duterrau, Benjamin (1767–1851) artist
  44. Dutton, Francis Stacker (1818–1877) politician
  45. Dutton, Frederick Hansborough (1812–1890) pastoralist
  46. Dutton, William (1811–1878) sea-captain and farmer
  47. Dutton, William Hampden (1805–1849) pastoralist
  48. Eagar, Edward (1787–1866) lawyer and merchant
  49. Eales, John (1799–1871) grazier and pioneer pastoralist
  50. Eardley-Wilmot, Sir John Eardley (1783–1847) lieutenant-governor
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