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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. Beale, Octavius Charles (1850–1930) piano manufacturer
  2. Bean, Charles Edwin (1879–1968) historian and journalist
  3. Bean, Isabelle (1862–1939) nurse, theosophist and feminist
  4. Bear-Crawford, Annette Ellen (1853–1899) feminist
  5. Beardsmore, Robert Henry (1873–1959) soldier and public servant
  6. Beatham, Robert Matthew (1894–1918) soldier
  7. Beattie, John Watt (1859–1930) photographer and antiquarian
  8. Beattie, Joseph Aloysius (1848–1920) medical practitioner
  9. Beatty, Raymond Wesley (1903–1973) bass-baritone and teacher of singing
  10. Beauchamp, seventh Earl (1872–1938) governor and politician
  11. Beaurepaire, Sir Francis Joseph (Frank) (1891–1956) sportsman, businessman and civic leader
  12. Beazley, William David (1854–1912) politician
  13. Becke, George Lewis (Louis) (1855–1913) author
  14. Beckett, Clarice Marjoribanks (1887–1935) painter
  15. Beckett, William James (1870–1965) politician
  16. Bedford, Sir Frederick George Denham (1838–1913) governor
  17. Bedford, George Randolph (1868–1941) journalist, mining speculator and politician
  18. Bee, James (1864–1941) headmaster
  19. Beeby, Sir George Stephenson (1869–1942) politician, judge and playwright
  20. Beggs, Hugh Norman (1863–1943) pastoralist and sheep breeder
  21. Beggs, Robert Gottlieb (1861–1939) pastoralist and sheep breeder
  22. Beggs, Theodore (1859–1940) pastoralist and sheep breeder
  23. Behan, Sir John Clifford Valentine (1881–1957) educationist
  24. Beirne, Thomas Charles (1860–1949) retailer
  25. Bejah, Dervish (1862–1957) camel driver
  26. Bell, Alexander Foulis (1876–1940) businessman
  27. Bell, Barbara (1870–1957) Catholic educationist
  28. Bell, Bertram Charles (1893–1941) airman, grazier and farmer
  29. Bell, Frederick William (1875–1954) soldier and colonial administrator
  30. Bell, George Frederick Henry (1878–1966) artist and teacher
  31. Bell, Sir George John (1872–1944) soldier, grazier, and Speaker of the House of Representatives
  32. Bell, James Thomas Marsh (1839–1903) pastoralist
  33. Bell, Jane (1873–1959) hospital matron
  34. Bell, Joshua Thomas (1863–1911) barrister and politician
  35. Bell, Peter Albany (1871–1957) caterer and philanthropist
  36. Bellew, Harold Kyrle Money (1850–1911) actor
  37. Belt, Francis Walter (1862–1938) naval commander and lawyer
  38. Benham, Ellen Ida (1871–1917) educationist
  39. Benham, Frederic Charles Courtenay (1900–1962) economist
  40. Benjamin, Arthur Leslie (1893–1960) pianist, composer, conductor and teacher
  41. Benjamin, David Samuel (1869–1943) merchant and charity worker
  42. Benjamin, Louis Reginald (1892–1970) chemist and technologist
  43. Benjamin, Sophia (Zoe) (1882–1962) pioneer of kindergarten work and of parent and sex education
  44. Bennett, Agnes Elizabeth (1872–1960) medical practitioner
  45. Bennett, Alfred Edward (1889–1963) broadcasting executive
  46. Bennett, Alfred Joshua (1865–1946) soldier, educationist and administrator
  47. Bennett, George Henry (1850–1908) brewer and radical politician
  48. Bennett, James Mallett (1894–1922) airman and mechanic
  49. Bennett, Mary Montgomerie (1881–1961) teacher and advocate of Aboriginal rights
  50. Benny, Susan Grace (1872–1944) local government councillor and housewife
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