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Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 3

This volume of the Australian Dictionary of Biography is the first of four for the period 1851-1890 and covers names A-C. [Read More]

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  1. Aarons, Joseph (1821–1904) pastoralist
  2. Abbott, Francis (1799–1883) watchmaker, amateur astronomer and meteorologist
  3. Abbott, Joseph (1843–1903) wool-broker and politician
  4. Abbott, Joseph Henry (1830–1904) businessman, civic leader and politician
  5. Abbott, Sir Joseph Palmer (1842–1901) solicitor and politician
  6. Abbott, Robert Palmer (1830–1901) solicitor and politician
  7. à Beckett, Sir Thomas (1836–1919) judge
  8. à Beckett, Thomas Turner (1808–1892) lawyer and politician
  9. à Beckett, Sir William (1806–1869) chief justice
  10. à Beckett, William Arthur (1833–1901) barrister
  11. Abigail, Francis (1840–1921) leather merchant, manufacturer and politician
  12. Adams, Francis William (1862–1893) poet, novelist, commentator and radical
  13. Adams, George (1839–1904) publican and lottery promoter
  14. Adams, Philip Francis (1828–1901) surveyor, viticulturist and astronomer
  15. Adams, Robert Patten (1831–1911) judge
  16. Adams, Walter (1830–1892) businessman, sugar planter and politician
  17. Adamson, Travers (1827–1897) lawyer, politician and public servant
  18. Agnew, Sir James Willson (1815–1901) medical practitioner and politician
  19. Ah Mouy, Louis (1826–1918) merchant and Chinese community leader
  20. Alderson, William Maddison (1814–1884) manufacturer and politician
  21. Alexander, Maurice (1820–1874) parliamentarian, merchant and philanthropist
  22. Allan, George Leavis (1826–1897) music dealer
  23. Allan, James Thomas (1831–1912) pastoralist and explorer
  24. Allan, William (1840–1901) pastoralist and politician
  25. Allen, Alfred (1839–1917) free-trade politician
  26. Allen, Sir George Wigram (1824–1885) solicitor, politician and philanthropist
  27. Allen, William Bell (1812–1869) manufacturer and politician
  28. Allen, William Johnston (1839–1917) manufacturer and protectionist politician
  29. Alleyne, Haynes Gibbes (1815–1882) medical practitioner
  30. Allingham, Christopher (1829–1876) explorer and pastoralist
  31. Allport, Morton (1830–1878) naturalist and solicitor
  32. Amess, Samuel (1826–1898) building contractor
  33. Anderson, John Gerard (1836–1911) educationist
  34. Anderson, John Wilson (1840–1917) estate agent and dairy farmer
  35. Anderson, Robert Stirling Hore (1821–1883) solicitor and parliamentarian
  36. Anderson, William (1828–1909) farmer and politician
  37. Anderson, William Acland (1829–1882) army officer
  38. Andrew, Henry Martyn (1845–1888) headmaster and professor
  39. Andrews, Edward William (1812–1877) newspaper proprietor and editor
  40. Andrews, Richard Bullock (1823–1884) lawyer
  41. Angas, John Howard (1823–1904) pastoralist, politician and philanthropist
  42. Angel, Henry (1791–1881) grazier
  43. Anivitti, Giulio (1850–1881) painter and art teacher
  44. Aplin, William (1840–1901) businessman, pastoralist and parliamentarian
  45. Appel, George (1823–1910) businessman, consul and public servant
  46. Archer, William (1820–1874) architect, naturalist, landowner and politician
  47. Archer, William Henry (1825–1909) statistician and public servant
  48. Archibald, Jules François (1856–1919) journalist
  49. Armit, William Edington (de Marguerittes) (1848–1901) policeman, journalist, explorer and public servant
  50. Armitage, Frederick (1827–1906) Anglican priest, headmaster and philologist
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