Australian Dictionary Of Dates And Men Of The Time

This dictionary provides a comprehensive guide to the history of Australasia from 1542 to 1879. It includes detailed biographies of important figures in the region's history, as well as information on significant events and developments. This book is an essential reference work for anyone interested in the history of Australia and its neighboring countries. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ...died by his own hand in tie Melbourne Gaol, at the age of 35, August It 1859. He was undergoing his sentence of thirtytwo years' hard labour when he headed the tint outbreak of convicts at Williamstown, which resulted in the death of a boatman, Owen Owens, whom he was accused of having killed with hammer, and for which he was sentenced to death at Melbourne, November 21, 1856: Ib was respited, but before the intelligence arrival he had strangled himself. Morgan, Daniel, carried the palm over sH bushrangers for cool audacity and blood-thirstiness. His murderous exploits at the Round Hi! Station were never equalled in Australia. Fire hundred pounds reward was offered by the X South Wales Government for his apprehension, January 5, 1864. In June, 1864, he shot Jageant M 'Ginnity dead, and took his horse aaJ firearms. Verdict of the wilful murder of-W M'Lean returned against him, June 23, lt and a reward of 1,000 was offered for his rre by the New South Wales Government, Jiaa 27. In the following September he shot." geant Smith, who died a few days aftenrartk Reward offered for his apprehension by ltova ment increased to 1,500, March 8, ISOo! On Al(i (i, 1805, put in force a threat often attribntal W him of making a raid upon Victorian territorjand he stuck up the station of Mr. Evans Whitefield. Several carriers were also bails! on the road near Wilton. On April 9 folio ing, Morgan reached Mr. M'Pherson's house the Peechelba Station, about twenty miles tra Wangaratta. He immediately bailed up whom he found on the station. But a serva girl ran to the house of Mr. Rutherford, a p ner of Mr. M'Pherson's, situated at a distance 400 yards. A man was despatched to Vf saj ratta, and the police...

Dictionaries of national biography are a long-established and significant genre of biographical and historical writing, existing in many forms across the globe. This book brings together practitioners from around the English‑speaking world to reflect on national biographical dictionary projects’ recent cultural journeys, and the challenges presented to them by such developments as the transition to a digital environment, a new alertness to the need to represent diversity, and the rise of transnationalism. Exploring their paths forward, the chapters of this book collectively make a powerful argument for the continued value and importance of large‑scale collaborative biographical dictionary research.

This true life adventure story is the saga of four ordinary Englishmen—a pair of banished, first-time petty thieves and a couple chosen to be settlers—who charted a course that led them to help build and mould an infant country on the remotest continent in the known world. Two of their offspring united to continue the adventure. Vivid first-hand accounts have been pried from the daily, hand-written journals and writings of first-class passengers, crew, and one of the convicts aboard the small wooden sailing ships, as they battled winter storms on the treacherous North Atlantic and Southern Oceans and endured scorching doldrums in the equatorial region. Mutinies, inventions, discoveries, and wars have been chronicled to provide a backdrop of the prevailing international, societal, and interpersonal relationships of the period. Characters from history’s stage weave their way through these pages—figures including James Cook, Horatio Nelson, Robert Emmet, Jonathan Swift, William Bligh, Lachlan Macquarie, Samuel Marsden, Walter Lawry, Alfred Howitt, and some long-forgotten souls like the tragic Margaret Sullivan. Artwork of the period is included to help stimulate the imagination and help place the reader beside the characters as they toiled to eke out an existence. The primary objective of this biography is a quest to achieve a broader, deeper understanding and appreciation of the typical person—including their struggles, challenges, and contributions—in early colonial New South Wales, Victoria, and New Zealand. The goal is to further the development of a robust comprehension of the Life and Times that these Six Australian Pioneers experienced, as well, the millions of other pioneers just like them. This book will also appeal to those with an interest in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Australian, European, and New Zealand history; late eighteenth-century ocean voyages; and those with an interest in artwork of the period.

THE ADB'S STORY is a detailed history of the eminent publication THE AUSTRALIAN DICTIONARY OF BIOGRAPHY. Published as part of the ANU Lives series, the National Centre of Biography has produced this comprehensive profile of the ADB's origins, processes and people. Edited by Melanie Nolan and Christine Fernon, this is a fantastic book for scholars of Australian history and biography.