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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. Bejah, Dervish (1862–1957) camel driver
  2. Beirne, Thomas Charles (1860–1949) retailer
  3. Behan, Sir John Clifford Valentine (1881–1957) educationist
  4. Beggs, Theodore (1859–1940) pastoralist and sheep breeder
  5. Beggs, Robert Gottlieb (1861–1939) pastoralist and sheep breeder
  6. Beggs, Hugh Norman (1863–1943) pastoralist and sheep breeder
  7. Beeby, Sir George Stephenson (1869–1942) politician, judge and playwright
  8. Bee, James (1864–1941) headmaster
  9. Bedford, George Randolph (1868–1941) journalist, mining speculator and politician
  10. Bedford, Sir Frederick George Denham (1838–1913) governor
  11. Beckett, William James (1870–1965) politician
  12. Beckett, Clarice Marjoribanks (1887–1935) painter
  13. Becke, George Lewis (Louis) (1855–1913) author
  14. Beazley, William David (1854–1912) politician
  15. Beaurepaire, Sir Francis Joseph (Frank) (1891–1956) sportsman, businessman and civic leader
  16. Beauchamp, seventh Earl (1872–1938) governor and politician
  17. Beatty, Raymond Wesley (1903–1973) bass-baritone and teacher of singing
  18. Beattie, Joseph Aloysius (1848–1920) medical practitioner
  19. Beattie, John Watt (1859–1930) photographer and antiquarian
  20. Beatham, Robert Matthew (1894–1918) soldier
  21. Beardsmore, Robert Henry (1873–1959) soldier and public servant
  22. Bear-Crawford, Annette Ellen (1853–1899) feminist
  23. Bean, Isabelle (1862–1939) nurse, theosophist and feminist
  24. Bean, Charles Edwin (1879–1968) historian and journalist
  25. Beale, Octavius Charles (1850–1930) piano manufacturer
  26. Beal, George Lansley (1869–1952) public servant
  27. Beadle, Jane (Jean) (1868–1942) Labor leader, feminist and social worker
  28. Baynton, Barbara Jane (1857–1929) writer
  29. Baynes, Harry (1858–1920) butcher and meat exporter
  30. Baynes, George (1862–1907) butcher and meat exporter
  31. Baynes, Ernest (1864–1930) butcher and meat exporter
  32. Bayley, Arthur Wellesley (1865–1896) discoverer of the Coolgardie goldfield
  33. Bayles, Norman (1865–1946) politician and solicitor
  34. Baylebridge, William (1883–1942) writer
  35. Bayldon, Francis Joseph (1872–1948) master mariner and nautical instructor
  36. Bayldon, Arthur Albert Dawson (1865–1958) poet
  37. Bavister, Thomas (1850–1923) trade unionist and politician
  38. Bavin, Sir Thomas Rainsford (Tom) (1874–1941) lawyer and politician
  39. Battye, James Sykes (1871–1954) librarian
  40. Batty, Francis de Witt (1879–1961) Anglican bishop
  41. Bath, Thomas Henry (1875–1956) miner, politician, farmer and co-operator
  42. Bates, Daisy May (1863–1951) anthropologist
  43. Batchelor, Egerton Lee (1865–1911) politician
  44. Bassett, Samuel Symons (1840–1912) vigneron and pastoralist
  45. Baskerville, Margaret Francis Ellen (1861–1930) sculptor
  46. Basedow, Martin Peter Friedrich (1829–1902) teacher, newspaper proprietor and politician
  47. Basedow, Herbert (1881–1933) anthropologist, geologist, explorer and medical practitioner
  48. Barwell, Sir Henry Newman (1877–1959) lawyer and premier
  49. Barton, Sir Edmund (Toby) (1849–1920) federationist, prime minister and judge
  50. Barton, Alan Sinclair Darvall (1886–1950) medical practitioner
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