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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. Blackett, William Arthur Mordey (1873–1962) architect
  2. Blacklock, Walter (1862–1935) trainer
  3. Blacklow, Archibald Clifford (1879–1965) soldier, pharmacist, grazier and politician
  4. Blackman, Meredith George (1876–1957) soldier and farm-hand
  5. Blackwood, Arthur Ranken (1850–1905) businessman
  6. Blackwood, Robert Officer (1861–1940) businessman and pastoralist
  7. Blair, Sir James William (1870–1944) politician, barrister and judge
  8. Blair, John (1857–1910) newspaper editor and proprietor
  9. Blakeley, Arthur (1886–1972) trade unionist and politician
  10. Blakeley, Frederick (1882–1962) opal miner
  11. Blakey, Othman Frank (1897–1952) engineer
  12. Blanc, Gustave (1876–1959) axeman
  13. Blanch, George Ernest (1864–1920) educationist
  14. Bleakley, John William (1879–1957) protector of Aborigines
  15. Blundell, Reginald Pole (1871–1945) tobacco-twister, trade unionist and politician
  16. Boan, Henry (1860–1941) retailer and sportsman
  17. Board, Peter (1858–1945) director of education
  18. Board, Ruby Willmet (1880–1963) voluntary welfare worker
  19. Boas, Abraham Tobias (1842–1923) Jewish minister
  20. Boas, Isaac Herbert (1878–1955) scientist
  21. Body, Eliel Edmund Irving (1881–1965) sheep breeder
  22. Boehm, Traugott Wilhelm (1836–1917) schoolmaster
  23. Boismenu, Alain Marie Guynot de (1870–1953) Catholic missionary bishop
  24. Bold, William Ernest (1873–1953) town clerk
  25. Bolton, William Kinsey (1860–1941) soldier and politician
  26. Bon, Ann Fraser (1838–1936) philanthropist
  27. Bond, George Alan (1876–1950) manufacturer
  28. Bonython, Sir John Langdon (1848–1939) editor, newspaper proprietor and philanthropist
  29. Bonython, Sir John Lavington (1875–1960) newspaper editor and company director
  30. Boote, Henry Ernest (1865–1949) Labor propagandist, journalist and writer
  31. Booth, Doris Regina (1895–1970) nursing volunteer and goldminer
  32. Booth, Herbert Henry (1862–1926) Salvationist
  33. Booth, Mary (1869–1956) physician and welfare worker
  34. Booth, Norman Parr (1879–1950) analytical chemist and businessman
  35. Boothby, Guy Newell (1867–1905) novelist
  36. Borchgrevink, Carsten Egeberg (1864–1934) Antarctic explorer
  37. Boreham, Frank William (1871–1959) preacher and writer
  38. Borella, Albert Chalmers (1881–1968) soldier and farmer
  39. Borthwick, Thomas (1860–1924) medical practitioner
  40. Bosanquet, Sir Day Hort (1843–1923) admiral and governor
  41. Bosch, George Henry (1861–1934) merchant and philanthropist
  42. Boswell, William Walter (1892–1959) soldier, labourer and railway ganger
  43. Bottrill, David Hughes (1866–1941) philanthropist and journalist
  44. Bottrill, Frank (1871–1953) blacksmith and inventor
  45. Bourchier, Sir Murray William James (1881–1937) grazier, soldier and politician
  46. Bourke, John Philip (1857–1914) schoolmaster, prospector and poet
  47. Bourne, Eleanor Elizabeth (1878–1957) medical practitioner
  48. Bourne, George Herbert (1881–1959) army officer and bank manager
  49. Bourne, Una Mabel (1882–1974) pianist and composer
  50. Bouton, Wilbur Knibloe (1855–1936) homoeopath
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