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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. Bracy, Henry (1841–1917) tenor and stage-director
  2. Bracegirdle, Sir Leighton Seymour (1881–1970) rear admiral and secretary to governors-general
  3. Boyle, Ignatius George (1882–1960) publican and politician
  4. Boyland, John (1874–1922) miner, unionist and politician
  5. Boyd, William Merric (1888–1959) potter
  6. Boyd, William Alexander (1842–1928) agricultural journalist, schoolmaster and soldier
  7. Boyd, Theodore Penleigh (1890–1923) artist
  8. Boyd, James Arthur (1867–1941) businessman and politician
  9. Boyd, Emma Minnie (1858–1936) artist
  10. Boyd, Edith Susan (1880–1961) artist and dramatist
  11. Boyd, Arthur Merric (1862–1940) artist
  12. Boyd, Adam Alexander (1866–1948) mining engineer
  13. Boyce, Sir Harold Leslie (1895–1955) politician, businessman and lord mayor of London
  14. Boyce, Francis Stewart (1872–1940) barrister and politician
  15. Boyce, Francis Bertie (1844–1931) Anglican clergyman
  16. Boxer, Walter Henry (1893–1927) soldier, labourer and clerk
  17. Boxall, Arthur d'Auvergne (1895–1944) artist
  18. Bowser, Sir John (1856–1936) politician and journalist
  19. Bowman, David (1860–1916) bootmaker, union official and politician
  20. Bowling, Peter (1864–1942) coalminer and union leader
  21. Bowles, William Leslie (1885–1954) sculptor
  22. Bowes, Euphemia Bridges (1816–1900) wife, mother and social reformer
  23. Bowen, Rowland Griffiths (1879–1965) naval commander
  24. Bowen, Esther Gwendolyn (Stella) (1893–1947) portrait painter and official war artist
  25. Bowden, Eric Kendall (1871–1931) solicitor and politician
  26. Bouton, Wilbur Knibloe (1855–1936) homoeopath
  27. Bourne, Una Mabel (1882–1974) pianist and composer
  28. Bourne, George Herbert (1881–1959) army officer and bank manager
  29. Bourne, Eleanor Elizabeth (1878–1957) medical practitioner
  30. Bourke, John Philip (1857–1914) schoolmaster, prospector and poet
  31. Bourchier, Sir Murray William James (1881–1937) grazier, soldier and politician
  32. Bottrill, Frank (1871–1953) blacksmith and inventor
  33. Bottrill, David Hughes (1866–1941) philanthropist and journalist
  34. Boswell, William Walter (1892–1959) soldier, labourer and railway ganger
  35. Bosch, George Henry (1861–1934) merchant and philanthropist
  36. Bosanquet, Sir Day Hort (1843–1923) admiral and governor
  37. Borthwick, Thomas (1860–1924) medical practitioner
  38. Borella, Albert Chalmers (1881–1968) soldier and farmer
  39. Boreham, Frank William (1871–1959) preacher and writer
  40. Borchgrevink, Carsten Egeberg (1864–1934) Antarctic explorer
  41. Boothby, Guy Newell (1867–1905) novelist
  42. Booth, Norman Parr (1879–1950) analytical chemist and businessman
  43. Booth, Mary (1869–1956) physician and welfare worker
  44. Booth, Herbert Henry (1862–1926) Salvationist
  45. Booth, Doris Regina (1895–1970) nursing volunteer and goldminer
  46. Boote, Henry Ernest (1865–1949) Labor propagandist, journalist and writer
  47. Bonython, Sir John Lavington (1875–1960) newspaper editor and company director
  48. Bonython, Sir John Langdon (1848–1939) editor, newspaper proprietor and philanthropist
  49. Bond, George Alan (1876–1950) manufacturer
  50. Bon, Ann Fraser (1838–1936) philanthropist
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