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Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 12

This volume of the Australian Dictionary of Biography is the sixth of six for the period 1891-1939 and covers names Smy-Z. [Read More]

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  1. Wetherspoon, John (1844–1928) farmer and politician
  2. Weston, Thomas Charles (1866–1935) horticulturist
  3. Westmacott, Charles Babington (1864–1934) actor-manager
  4. West, Winifred Mary (1881–1971) educationist
  5. West, John Edward (1852–1931) plumber, trade unionist and politician
  6. West, John (1856–1926) journalist, horticulturist and irrigation pioneer
  7. Wesché, Phoebe Ellen (1871–1950) charity worker
  8. Wesché, Awdry Gordon (1865–1938) shipping manager
  9. Wenz, Paul (1869–1939) grazier and writer
  10. Wentworth-Shields, Wentworth Francis (1867–1944) Anglican bishop
  11. Wendt, Joachim Matthias (1830–1917) silversmith
  12. Welsh, David Arthur (1865–1948) pathologist
  13. Welsby, Thomas (1858–1941) company director, politician and sportsman
  14. Wells, Lawrence Allen (1860–1938) explorer
  15. Wellish, Edward Montague (1882–1948) mathematician
  16. Welch, Eric Wilfred (1900–1983) sporting commentator
  17. Weir, Stanley Price (1866–1944) army officer and public servant
  18. Weingarth, John Leopold (1862–1925) surveyor
  19. Weindorfer, Gustav (1874–1932) naturalist and conservationist
  20. Weigall, Sir William Ernest George Archibald (1874–1952) governor
  21. Weigall, Theyre à Beckett (1860–1926) barrister and judge
  22. Weigall, Cecil Edward (1870–1955) barrister
  23. Weedon, Sir Henry (1859–1921) businessman and lord mayor
  24. Webster, William Maule (1885–1958) estate manager
  25. Webster, William (1860–1936) quarryman and politician
  26. Webster, Ellen (1877–1965) grazier and politician
  27. Webster, Edwin Herbert (1864–1947) businessman and yachtsman
  28. Webster, Charles Ernest (1861–1936) merchant and businessman
  29. Weber, Ivy Lavinia (1892–1976) physical culturist and politician
  30. Weber, Horace George Martin (1887–1968) organist
  31. Weber, Clarence Alfred (1882–1930) athlete and physical culturist
  32. Webber, William Thomas Thornhill (1837–1903) Anglican bishop
  33. Webb, William Alfred (1878–1936) railway administrator
  34. Webb, Jessie Stobo (1880–1944) historian
  35. Webb, Frederick William (1837–1919) public servant
  36. Webb, Chris (1866–1948) boatman
  37. Weaver, Reginald Walter (1876–1945) real estate agent and politician
  38. Weathers, Lawrence Carthage (1890–1918) undertaker and soldier
  39. Weatherly, William (1839–1914) sheep-farmer
  40. Weatherly, May Isabella (1868–1950) headmistress
  41. Weatherly, Lionel James (1881–1962) pastoralist
  42. Weatherburn, Charles Ernest (1884–1974) mathematician
  43. Wearne, Walter Ernest (1867–1931) grazier and politician
  44. Wayn, Amelia Lucy (1862–1951) historical researcher
  45. Way Lee, Yet Soo War (1853–1909) merchant
  46. Way, Sir Samuel James (1836–1916) chief justice and lieutenant-governor
  47. Watterston, David (1845–1931) journalist
  48. Watt, William Shand (1876–1958) mining engineer and meteorologist
  49. Watt, William Alexander (1871–1946) premier, company director and Speaker of the House of Representatives
  50. Watt, Walter Oswald (Toby) (1878–1921) airman, grazier and merchant
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