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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. Lewin, John William (1770–1819) naturalist and artist
  2. Levey, Solomon (1794–1833) emancipist and merchant
  3. Levey, Barnett (1798–1837) merchant and theatre director
  4. Leslie, Patrick (1815–1881) pioneer and grazier
  5. Lennox, David (1788–1873) bridge-builder
  6. Lempriere, Thomas James (1796–1852) public official, author and artist
  7. Leigh, Samuel (1785–1852) Methodist missionary
  8. Leichhardt, Ludwig (1813–1848) naturalist and explorer
  9. Lee, William (1794–1870) settler
  10. Learmonth, Thomas (1818–1903) early settler
  11. Learmonth, Somerville (1819–1878) early settler
  12. Learmonth, John (1812–1871) early settler
  13. Learmonth, Andrew James (1825–1892) early settler
  14. Leake, John (1780–1865) pastoralist
  15. Leake, George (1786–1849) merchant
  16. Lazarev, Mikhail Petrovich (1788–1851) admiral and explorer
  17. Lazar, John (1801–1879) actor and mayor
  18. Laycock, Thomas (1756–1809) quartermaster
  19. Laycock, Thomas (1786–1823) soldier and explorer
  20. Lawson, William (1774–1850) explorer and pastoralist
  21. Lawry, Walter (1793–1859) Methodist missionary
  22. Lawrence, William Effingham (1781–1841) landowner
  23. Lawless, Paul (1817–1865) pastoralist
  24. Lawless, Clement Francis (1815–1877) pastoralist
  25. La Trobe, Charles Joseph (1801–1875) superintendent and lieutenant-governor
  26. Latham, John (1740–1837) ornithologist
  27. Lascelles, Thomas Allen (1783–1859) public servant and settler
  28. Larra, James (1749–1839) Jewish emancipist and merchant
  29. Larnach, John (1805–1869) settler
  30. La Pérouse, Jean-François de Galaup (1741–1788) navigator
  31. Langlands, Henry (1794–1863) iron founder and politician
  32. Langdon, William (1790–1879) naval officer and landowner
  33. Lang, John Dunmore (1799–1878) Presbyterian clergyman, politician and educationist
  34. Lang, Gideon Scott (1819–1880) pastoralist
  35. Landor, Edward Wilson (1811–1878) solicitor, writer and pioneer
  36. Landale, Thomas (1795–1851) medical practitioner
  37. Lambe, David (1803–1843) architect and farmer
  38. Lamb, John (1790–1862) naval officer, politician and merchant
  39. Lakeland, John (1791–1828) public servant
  40. Laing, Henry (1803–1842) architect and surveyor
  41. Laing, Charles (1809–1857) architect and surveyor
  42. Laidley, James (1786–1835) deputy commissary general
  43. La Billardière, Jacques-Julien Houtou de (1755–1834) naturalist
  44. Knowles, Conrad Theodore (1810–1844) actor and manager
  45. Knopwood, Robert (Bobby) (1763–1838) cleric and diarist
  46. Knatchbull, John (1792–1844) naval captain and convict
  47. Kirkland, Katherine (1808–1892) memoirist
  48. Kingston, Sir George Strickland (1807–1880) engineer and politician
  49. King, Phillip Parker (1791–1856) naval officer, hydrographer and company manager
  50. King, Philip Gidley (1758–1808) governor
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