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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. Earle, Augustus (1793–1838) artist and traveller
  2. Easty, John (?–?) marine
  3. Ebden, Charles Hotson (1811–1867) pastoralist, businessman and politician
  4. Edge, Fane (?–1803) provost-marshal
  5. Eipper, Christopher (1813–1894) missionary and Presbyterian minister
  6. Elder, James (1772–1836) missionary and settler
  7. Elliot, Thomas Frederick (1808–1880) public servant
  8. Elliott, William Edward (1752–1822) smallholder
  9. Elliston, William Gore (1798–1872) schoolmaster and editor
  10. Emmett, Henry James (1783–1848) public servant
  11. Enderby, Samuel (1756–1829) shipowner, merchant and whaler
  12. Erédia, Manuel Godinho de (1563–1623) Malay-Portuguese author
  13. Erskine, James (1765–1825) soldier and lieutenant-governor
  14. Evans, George William (1780–1852) surveyor
  15. Everingham, Matthew James (1768–1817) settler
  16. Ewing, Thomas James (1813–1882) Church of England clergyman
  17. Eyre, Edward John (1815–1901) explorer and governor
  18. Eyre, John (1768–1854) missionary and schoolmaster
  19. Eyre, John (1771–?) convict and artist
  20. Faithful, William (1774–1847) soldier and settler
  21. Faunce, Alured Tasker (1808–1856) soldier and police magistrate
  22. Fawkner, John Pascoe (1792–1869) pioneer
  23. Fenton, Michael (1789–1874) politician and landed proprietor
  24. Fereday, Dudley (1789–1849) sheriff and moneylender
  25. Ferguson, John (1802–1883) physician and surgeon
  26. Field, Barron (1786–1846) judge
  27. Finn, Edmund (1819–1898) journalist and author
  28. Finnis, John (1802–1872) master mariner, pastoralist and overlander
  29. Finniss, Boyle Travers (1807–1893) soldier, surveyor and public servant
  30. Fisher, Sir James Hurtle (1790–1875) lawyer and commissioner
  31. Fitz, Robert (1768–1834) public servant and settler
  32. FitzGerald, Charles (1791–1887) governor
  33. Fitzgerald, Richard (1772–1840) convict, public servant and settler
  34. FitzRoy, Sir Charles Augustus (1796–1858) governor-general
  35. Flinders, Matthew (1774–1814) navigator, hydrographer and scientist
  36. Florance, Thomas (1783–1867) surveyor
  37. Forbes, Sir Francis (1784–1841) chief justice
  38. Forbes, James (1813–1851) Presbyterian clergyman
  39. Forlonge, William (1811–1890) pastoralist and politician
  40. Forrest, Robert (1802–1854) clergyman and schoolmaster
  41. Forster, Johann Georg Adam (1754–1794) German writer, traveller and revolutionary
  42. Forster, Johann Reinhold (1729–1798) author and naturalist
  43. Forster, Matthew (1796–1846) soldier and public servant
  44. Fosbrook, Leonard (?–?) public servant
  45. Fossey, Joseph (1788–1851) land surveyor
  46. Foster, John (1792–1875) pastoralist, merchant and member of parliament
  47. Foveaux, Joseph (1767–1846) soldier and administrator
  48. Fowles, Joseph (?–1878) artist
  49. Frankland, George (1800–1838) surveyor
  50. Franklin, Lady Jane (1791–1875) protagonist, governor's lady and patron of science
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