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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. Campbell, Francis Rawdon (1798–1877) medical practitioner
  2. Campbell, Oswald Rose (1820–1887) artist
  3. Campbell, William (1810–1896) pastoralist, financier and politician
  4. Cani, John (1836–1898) Roman Catholic bishop
  5. Cannan, Kearsey (1815–1894) medical practitioner
  6. Canterbury, third Viscount (1814–1877) governor
  7. Carandini, Marie (1826–1894) prima donna
  8. Carboni, Raffaello (1817–1875) linguist, traveller, author and composer
  9. Cardwell, Edward (1813–1886) statesman
  10. Carey, George Jackson (1822–1872) soldier and administrator
  11. Carnarvon, fourth Earl of (1831–1890) statesman
  12. Caron, Leon Francis Victor (1850–1905) musical director
  13. Carr-Boyd, William Henry James (1852–1925) explorer, prospector and raconteur
  14. Carrington, Charles Robert (1843–1928) governor
  15. Carrington, Francis Thomas Dean (Tom) (1843–1918) journalist, political cartoonist and illustrator
  16. Carron, William (1821–1876) botanist and explorer
  17. Carson, David (1843–1931) businessman and mining speculator
  18. Carter, Charles John (1797–1875) pastoralist
  19. Carter, Godfrey Downes (1830–1902) politician and merchant
  20. Carter, Samuel Charles (1834–1910) grazier and irrigationist
  21. Cary, Henry (1804–1870) judge, editor and Anglican clergyman
  22. Casey, James Joseph (1831–1913) politician and judge
  23. Casey, Richard Gardiner (1846–1919) pastoralist, company director and politician
  24. Cassell, James Horatio Nelson (1814–1853) public servant
  25. Castella, Charles Hubert de (1825–1907) landowner and vigneron
  26. Castella, Paul Frederic de (1827–1903) landowner and vigneron
  27. Cathcart, James Faucitt (1828–1902) actor
  28. Cathcart, Mary Fanny (1833–1880) actress
  29. Catt, Alfred (1833–1919) store-keeper and parliamentarian
  30. Cawker, Thomas (1836–1926) coach driver and proprietor
  31. Cecil, Robert Arthur (1830–1903) statesman
  32. Chabrillan, Céleste de (1824–1909) courtesan and author
  33. Challinor, Henry (1814–1882) medical practitioner
  34. Challis, John Henry (1806–1880) merchant and philanthropist
  35. Chalmers, James (1841–1901) missionary
  36. Chalmers, William (1833–1901) Anglican bishop
  37. Chambers, James (1811–1862) horse dealer and pastoralist
  38. Chambers, John (1815–1889) horse dealer and pastoralist
  39. Chambers, Thomas (1829–1896) medical practitioner and university lecturer
  40. Champ, William Thomas Napier (1808–1892) soldier, public servant and premier
  41. Chapman, Edgar (1831–1886) brewer, pastoralist and theatre proprietor
  42. Chapman, Henry Samuel (1803–1881) judge, colonial secretary, attorney-general and Philosophic Radical
  43. Chapman, Samuel (1831–1899) Baptist minister
  44. Chapman, Thomas Daniel (1815–1884) merchant and politician
  45. Charles, Samuel (1818–1909) mariner, dairy farmer and politician
  46. Cheeke, Alfred (1810–1876) judge
  47. Cheong Cheok Hong (1853–1928) missionary and social reformer
  48. Chester, Henry Marjoribanks (1832–1914) public servant
  49. Chevalier, Nicholas (1828–1902) artist
  50. Child, Coles (1817–1898) clergyman
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