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Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 7

This volume of the Australian Dictionary of Biography is the first of six for the period 1891-1939 and covers names A-Ch. [Read More]

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  1. Abbott, Gertrude (1846–1934) founder of a hospital for women
  2. Abbott, John Henry (1874–1953) author
  3. Abbott, Percy Phipps (1869–1940) solicitor, soldier and politician
  4. Abbott, William Edward (Wingen) (1844–1924) pastoralist and politician
  5. à Beckett, Ada Mary (1872–1948) educationist
  6. Abel, Charles William (1862–1930) missionary
  7. Abigail, Ernest Robert (Ernie) (1870–1931) solicitor
  8. Abrahams, Joseph (1855–1938) senior rabbi
  9. Adam, David Stow (1859–1925) theologian
  10. Adam, George Rothwell Wilson (1853–1924) physician
  11. Adams, Arthur Henry (1872–1936) journalist and author
  12. Adamson, John (1857–1922) clergyman and politician
  13. Adamson, Lawrence Arthur (1860–1932) headmaster
  14. Adcock, William Eddrup (1846–1931) journalist and businessman
  15. Addis, William (1844–1917) clergyman
  16. Adey, William James (1874–1956) educationist
  17. Agar, Wilfred Eade (1882–1951) zoologist
  18. Agnew, Roy Ewing (Robert) (1891–1944) composer and pianist
  19. Ahern, Elizabeth (Lizzie) (1877–1969) socialist propagandist
  20. Ahern, Thomas (1884–1970) merchant and draper
  21. Ah Ket, William (1876–1936) barrister
  22. Ahuia Ova (1877–1951) Papuan court interpreter
  23. Ainsworth, Alfred Bower (1827–1920) civil engineer and public servant
  24. Ainsworth, George Frederick (1878–1950) public servant and businessman
  25. Airey, Henry Parke (1842–1911) soldier
  26. Airey, Peter (1865–1950) school teacher, politician and writer
  27. Aitken, George Lewis (1864–1940) pastoralist and wool broker
  28. Akhurst, Daphne Jessie (1903–1933) tennis-player
  29. Alanson, Alfred Godwin (1863–1943) educationist, journalist and author
  30. Albert, Michel François (Frank) (1874–1962) music publisher and yachtsman
  31. Albiston, Arthur Edward (1866–1961) clergyman
  32. Albiston, Walter (1889–1965) Congregational minister
  33. Alcock, Alfred Upton (1865–1962) electrical engineer and inventor
  34. Alcock, Randal James (1853–1927) merchant
  35. Alderman, Walter William (1874–1935) soldier
  36. Alexander, Frederick Matthias (1869–1955) founder of the Alexander technique
  37. Alexander, Samuel (1859–1938) philosopher
  38. Allan, John (1866–1936) premier
  39. Allan, Percy (1861–1930) civil engineer
  40. Allan, Robert Marshall (1886–1946) physician and professor of obstetrics
  41. Allan, Stella May (1871–1962) journalist
  42. Allard, Sir George Mason (1866–1953) chartered accountant
  43. Allardyce, Sir William Lamond (1861–1930) governor
  44. Allen, Sir Carleton Kemp (1887–1966) scholar
  45. Allen, George Thomas (1852–1940) public servant
  46. Allen, Sir Harry Brookes (1854–1926) pathologist and medical administrator
  47. Allen, Horace William (1875–1949) classicist
  48. Allen, Joseph Francis (1869–1933) architect, civil engineer and politician
  49. Allen, Leslie Holdsworth (1879–1964) scholar
  50. Allen, Mary Cecil (1893–1962) artist, writer and lecturer on art
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