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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. Kerr, William (1812–1859) journalist
  2. Kinchela, John (1774–1845) attorney-general and judge
  3. King, Anna Josepha (1765–1844)
  4. King, James (1800–1857) merchant, manufacturer and vigneron
  5. King, John Charles (1817–1870) town clerk and politician
  6. King, Philip Gidley (1758–1808) governor
  7. King, Phillip Parker (1791–1856) naval officer, hydrographer and company manager
  8. Kingston, Sir George Strickland (1807–1880) engineer and politician
  9. Kirkland, Katherine (1808–1892) memoirist
  10. Knatchbull, John (1792–1844) naval captain and convict
  11. Knopwood, Robert (Bobby) (1763–1838) cleric and diarist
  12. Knowles, Conrad Theodore (1810–1844) actor and manager
  13. La Billardière, Jacques-Julien Houtou de (1755–1834) naturalist
  14. Laidley, James (1786–1835) deputy commissary general
  15. Laing, Charles (1809–1857) architect and surveyor
  16. Laing, Henry (1803–1842) architect and surveyor
  17. Lakeland, John (1791–1828) public servant
  18. Lamb, John (1790–1862) naval officer, politician and merchant
  19. Lambe, David (1803–1843) architect and farmer
  20. Landale, Thomas (1795–1851) medical practitioner
  21. Landor, Edward Wilson (1811–1878) solicitor, writer and pioneer
  22. Lang, Gideon Scott (1819–1880) pastoralist
  23. Lang, John Dunmore (1799–1878) Presbyterian clergyman, politician and educationist
  24. Langdon, William (1790–1879) naval officer and landowner
  25. Langlands, Henry (1794–1863) iron founder and politician
  26. La Pérouse, Jean-François de Galaup (1741–1788) navigator
  27. Larnach, John (1805–1869) settler
  28. Larra, James (1749–1839) Jewish emancipist and merchant
  29. Lascelles, Thomas Allen (1783–1859) public servant and settler
  30. Latham, John (1740–1837) ornithologist
  31. La Trobe, Charles Joseph (1801–1875) superintendent and lieutenant-governor
  32. Lawless, Clement Francis (1815–1877) pastoralist
  33. Lawless, Paul (1817–1865) pastoralist
  34. Lawrence, William Effingham (1781–1841) landowner
  35. Lawry, Walter (1793–1859) Methodist missionary
  36. Lawson, William (1774–1850) explorer and pastoralist
  37. Laycock, Thomas (1756–1809) quartermaster
  38. Laycock, Thomas (1786–1823) soldier and explorer
  39. Lazar, John (1801–1879) actor and mayor
  40. Lazarev, Mikhail Petrovich (1788–1851) admiral and explorer
  41. Leake, George (1786–1849) merchant
  42. Leake, John (1780–1865) pastoralist
  43. Learmonth, Andrew James (1825–1892) early settler
  44. Learmonth, John (1812–1871) early settler
  45. Learmonth, Somerville (1819–1878) early settler
  46. Learmonth, Thomas (1818–1903) early settler
  47. Lee, William (1794–1870) settler
  48. Leichhardt, Ludwig (1813–1848) naturalist and explorer
  49. Leigh, Samuel (1785–1852) Methodist missionary
  50. Lempriere, Thomas James (1796–1852) public official, author and artist
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