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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. Byrne, Joseph Patrick (1843–1901) Roman Catholic bishop
  2. Buzacott, Charles Hardie (1835–1918) publisher, journalist and politician
  3. Buvelot, Abram-Louis (1814–1888) landscape painter
  4. Button, Henry (1829–1914) journalist and author
  5. Butters, William (1810–1887) Wesleyan clergyman
  6. Butters, James Stewart (1832–1912) businessman and politician
  7. Butler, Henry (1821–1885) surgeon and politician
  8. Butler, Edward (1823–1879) barrister and politician
  9. Bussell, Alfred Pickmore (1816–1882) settler and pastoralist
  10. Busby, William (1813–1887) pastoralist and politician
  11. Bury, Thomas (1838–1900) journalist
  12. Burton, Henry (1823–1900) circus proprietor
  13. Burt, Sir Archibald Paull (1810–1879) chief justice
  14. Burrows, John (1829–1904) miller
  15. Burrowes, Robert (1825–1893) parliamentarian
  16. Burrowes, John (1795–1879) ecclesiastic and scholar
  17. Burns, John Fitzgerald (1833–1911) politician, flour-miller and merchant
  18. Burnett, James Charles (1815–1854) surveyor and explorer
  19. Burke, Robert O'Hara (1821–1861) explorer
  20. Buring, Theodor Gustav Hermann (1846–1919) store-keeper and vigneron
  21. Buring, Hermann Paul Leopold (Leo) (1876–1961) vigneron
  22. Buring, Adolph Wilhelm Rudolph (Rudi) (1872–1950) vigneron
  23. Burgess, William Henry (1847–1917) grocer and parliamentarian
  24. Burdekin, Sydney (1839–1899) pastoralist, landlord and politician
  25. Burdekin, Marshall (1837–1886) barrister and politician
  26. Bunny, Brice Frederick (1820–1885) lawyer and politician
  27. Bundey, Sir William Henry (1838–1909) lawyer
  28. Buncle, John (1822–1889) manufacturer and inventor
  29. Bull, John Edward (1806–1901) military officer and public servant
  30. Bulcock, Robert (1832–1900) party organizer, temperance advocate and businessman
  31. Buhôt, John (1831–1881) sugar-boiler
  32. Bugnion, François Louis (1822–1880) universalist missionary
  33. Budd, Richard Hale (1816–1909) educationist
  34. Buckley, Mars (1825–1905) businessman
  35. Buckley, Henry (1813–1888) pastoralist, businessman and public servant
  36. Buckland, William Harvey (1858–1929) teacher
  37. Buckland, Thomas (1814–1896) merchant, pastoralist and banker
  38. Buckland, John Vansittart (1850–1932) headmaster and Anglican minister
  39. Buckland, John Richard (1819–1874) headmaster
  40. Buchanan, William Frederick (1824–1911) pastoralist and gold prospector
  41. Buchanan, Nathaniel (Nat) (1826–1901) pastoralist and explorer
  42. Buchanan, James (1827–1914) farmer and politician
  43. Buchanan, David (1823–1890) politician, barrister and critic
  44. Buchanan, Benjamin (1821–1912) company director
  45. Brunton, Thomas (1831–1908) mill-owner
  46. Brunning, George (1830–1893) nurseryman
  47. Brunker, James Nixon (1832–1910) businessman and politician
  48. Bruce, John Vans Agnew (1822–1863) road and railway construction contractor
  49. Bruce, John Munro (1840–1901) businessman
  50. Bruce, John (1808–1870) military officer
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