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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. Murdoch, Peter (1795–1871) public servant and settler
  2. Murphy, Francis (1795–1858) Catholic bishop
  3. Murray, Sir George (1772–1846) soldier and politician
  4. Murray, Hugh (1789–1845) grazier and merchant
  5. Murray, John (1775–1807) seaman and explorer
  6. Murray, Robert Lathrop (1777–1850) landowner, soldier, convict and journalist
  7. Murray, Sir Terence Aubrey (1810–1873) landowner and politician
  8. Nairn, William (1767–1853) army officer
  9. Nash, Richard West (1808–1850) advocate-general
  10. Nash, Robert (1771–1819) miller
  11. Nathan, Isaac (1790–1864) musician
  12. Neales, John Bentham (1806–1873) auctioneer and politician
  13. Nepean, Sir Evan (1752–1822) civil servant
  14. Nepean, Nicholas (1757–1823) marine and army officer
  15. Newland, Ridgway William (1790–1864) Congregational minister and pioneer
  16. Nicholas, John Liddiard (1784–1868) author and traveller
  17. Nichols, Isaac (1770–1819) farmer, shipowner and public servant
  18. Nicholson, Sir Charles (1808–1903) statesman, landowner, businessman, connoisseur, scholar and physician
  19. Nixon, Francis Russell (1803–1879) Church of England bishop
  20. Nobbs, George Hunn (1799–1884) schoolteacher and pastor
  21. Norton, James (1795–1862) solicitor
  22. Oakden, Philip (1784–1851) merchant, banker and social worker
  23. Oakes, Francis (1770–1844) chief constable
  24. Oatley, James (1770–1839) watch maker and settler
  25. O'Brien, Cornelius (Neal) (1796–1869) pastoralist
  26. O'Brien, Henry (1793–1866) pastoralist
  27. O'Brien, William Smith (1803–1864) Irish nationalist
  28. O'Connell, Sir Maurice Charles (1768–1848) soldier
  29. O'Connor, Roderic (1784–1860) public servant and landowner
  30. Officer, Sir Robert (1800–1879) medical officer and politician
  31. O'Flaherty, Eliza (1818–1882) actress and novelist
  32. O'Flynn, Jeremiah Francis (1788–1831) Roman Catholic priest
  33. Ogilvie, James (1795–1828) wine merchant
  34. O'Halloran, Thomas Shuldham (1797–1870) pioneer and commissioner of police
  35. O'Halloran, William Littlejohn (1806–1885) public servant
  36. O'Neil, Peter (1757–1835) Roman Catholic priest
  37. Orr, William Morgan (?–1843) merchant and landowner
  38. Orton, Joseph Rennard (1795–1842) Wesleyan Methodist missionary
  39. Osborne, Henry (1803–1859) pastoralist
  40. O'Shaughnessy, Edward (1801–1840) journalist, poet and editor
  41. Ovens, John (1788–1825) soldier and engineer
  42. Oxley, John Joseph (1784–1828) surveyor-general and explorer
  43. Page, Samuel (1810–1878) publican, coach proprietor and pastoralist
  44. Palmer, George Thomas (1784–1854) landholder
  45. Palmer, John (1760–1833) commissary
  46. Palmer, Philip (1799–1853) Anglican clergyman
  47. Palmer, Thomas Fyshe (1747–1802) Unitarian minister and political reformer
  48. Pamphlett, Thomas (1789–1838) castaway
  49. Parkinson, Sydney (1745–1771) natural history draughtsman
  50. Parramore, William Thomas (1797–1854) public servant
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