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Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 2

This volume of the Australian Dictionary of Biography is the second of two for the period 1788-1850 and covers names I-Z. [Read More]

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  1. Fritzsche, Gotthard Daniel (1797–1863) Lutheran pastor
  2. Icely, Thomas (1797–1874) landowner and stockbreeder
  3. Imlay, Alexander (1800–1847) landowner, speculator
  4. Imlay, George (1794–1846) landowner and speculator
  5. Imlay, Peter (1797–1881) landowner and speculator
  6. Ingle, John (1781–1872) merchant and shipowner
  7. Innes, Archibald Clunes (1800–1857) soldier and pastoralist
  8. Irving, John (1760–1795) a convict ‘bred to surgery’
  9. Irwin, Frederick Chidley (1794–1860) soldier and administrator
  10. Jackey Jackey (?–1854) Aboriginal guide
  11. Jackson, John Alexander (1809–1885) public servant and colonial agent
  12. Jackson, Samuel (1807–1876) pastoralist and architect
  13. Jamieson, John (1766–1850) superintendent of stock
  14. Jamison, Sir John (1776–1844) physician, landowner and constitutional reformer
  15. Jamison, Thomas (1753–1811) surgeon
  16. Janssen, Willem (?–?) mariner
  17. Jeffcott, Sir John William (1796–1837) judge
  18. Jeffcott, Sir William (1800–1855) judge
  19. Jeffreys, Charles (1782–1826) naval officer and author
  20. Jenkins, Robert (1777–1822) merchant
  21. Johnson, Richard (1753–1827) Church of England clergyman
  22. Johnston, Esther (1767–1846) landowner
  23. Johnston, George (1764–1823) soldier and farmer
  24. Johnston, George (1790–1820) farmer
  25. Jones, David (1793–1873) merchant
  26. Jones, Richard (1786–1852) merchant and pastoralist
  27. Jones, Richard (1816–1892) journalist, politician and company director
  28. Jorgenson, Jorgen (1780–1841) adventurer
  29. Joyce, Alfred (1821–1901) grazier and farmer
  30. Jukes, Joseph Beete (1811–1869) geologist
  31. Kable, Henry (1763–1846) businessman
  32. Kane, Henry Plow (1825–1893) schoolmaster
  33. Kavel, August Ludwig Christian (1798–1860) Lutheran pastor
  34. Kay, Joseph Henry (1815–1875) naval officer and scientist
  35. Kay, William Porden (1809–1897) architect, surveyor, engineer and public servant
  36. Kearney, William (1795–1870) settler
  37. Kelly, James (1791–1859) sealer, pilot and harbourmaster
  38. Kelsall, Roger (1792–1861) soldier and engineer
  39. Kemble, Francis (1784–1844) company promoter
  40. Kemp, Anthony Fenn (1773–1868) soldier and merchant
  41. Kemp, Charles (1813–1864) journalist, politician and businessman
  42. Kendall, Thomas (1778–1832) missionary
  43. Kennedy, Edmund Besley (1818–1848) explorer
  44. Kenny, John (1816–1886) Catholic priest and historian
  45. Kent, Thomas (?–1832) merchant and speculator
  46. Kent, William (1760–1812) naval officer
  47. Kent, William George Carlile (1788–?) naval officer
  48. Kentish, Nathaniel Lipscomb (1797–1867) surveyor, author and editor
  49. Kermode, Robert Quayle (1812–1870) merchant and settler
  50. Kermode, William (1780–1852) merchant and settler
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