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