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	Dictionary of Australian Biography Index
		Of distinguished Australians born after the middle of the century a large proportion was still alive on 31 December 1942.
		Her mother was an Australian, one grandfather spent all his adult life in Australia, and one of her great-grandfathers was William Sorell, one of the ablest governors that ever came to Australia.
		Australian painting has been more and more appreciated of late years, but there is still far too little encouragement given to sculpture, architecture, and music.
	gutenberg.net.au /dictbiog/00-dict-biogIndex.html (2961 words)

	Dictionary of Australian Biography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Dictionary of Australian Biography, first published in 1949, is a reference work by Percival Serle containing information on notable people associated with Australian history.
		Forty-seven percent of those included in the book were born in England, 27% in Australia, 12% Scotland, 8% Ireland, 1% Wales and the last 5% were from the rest of the world which included 12 from the United States, 9 from Germany, and 6 from New Zealand.
		Dictionary of Australian Biography (1949) courtesy of Project Gutenberg Australia (contains details of people who died before 1942).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dictionary_of_Australian_Biography (337 words)

	ANU - Australian Dictionary of Biography - RSSS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		ANU - Australian Dictionary of Biography - RSSS
		The ADB is a reference series containing biographical articles on Australians from all walks of life.
		The ADB is part of the History Program in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University in Canberra.
	adb.anu.edu.au (217 words)

	Lieutenant Richmond Gordon Howell-Price (1896-1917)
		He was killed in action at Bullecourt, France 4 May 1917 and was posthumously awarded the Military Cross.
		Chris Coulthard Clark, The Diggers : makers of the Australian military tradition : lives from the Australian dictionary of biography (Carlton, Victoria: 1993, pp.
		Douglas Pike, Australian Dictionary of Biography (New York: 1983, pp.
	www.awm.gov.au /encyclopedia/howell_price/richmond.htm (89 words)

	Australian History: Selected Websites
		Ancient Heritage, Modern Society (Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) - introduction to Australian history covering European settlement, a nation is born, the impact of war, post-war prosperity, and a changing society.
		Australian Literary and Historical Texts - part of the SETIS project (Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service at the University of Sydney Library), this collection comprises editions of hundreds of Australian literary and historical texts.
		Australian Museum - Australia's first museum established in 1827 with an international reputation in the fields of natural history and indigenous studies research, community programs and exhibitions.
	nla.gov.au /oz/histsite.html (794 words)

	Oxford DNB: Ashes
		ADB Australia XI vs Oxford DNB England XI To mark the 2006–7 Ashes, the Australian Dictionary of Biography and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography have joined forces.
		We present an Australia XI selected from the cricketers included in the Australian Dictionary of Biography, ranged against an England XI selected from cricketers in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
		The ADB Australian XI is selected from the 81 cricketers included in the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
	www.oxforddnb.com /public/ashes (1319 words)

	Biographies of Victoria Cross (VC) winners \| Visit Gallipoli
		On 2 June 1915 Dunstan enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force as a private and a fortnight later embarked for Egypt as an acting sergeant of the 6th Reinforcements of the 7th Battalion.
		Tubb was buried in the Lijessenthoek military cemetery, Belgium, and is commemorated by Tubb Hill, Longwood, and a memorial tree in the Avenue of Honour, Euroa, Victoria.
		One of seven Australians to win the Victoria Cross at Lone Pine, Symons was cited for his conspicuous gallantry and received his V.C. from King George V at Buckingham Palace on 4 December.
	www.anzacsite.gov.au /5environment/vc/biography.html (6787 words)

	ANU - <postgraduate workshop in biography> (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The Australian Dictionary of Biography, the History Program, RSSS, and the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University are collaborating in convening a workshop for postgraduate students working in biography and life history, to be held at the ANU, 6-10 February 2006.
		Biography and ‘life writing’ figure increasingly prominently in humanities and social science research, both as central approaches and as methods by which to advance diverse areas of enquiry.
		This workshop will provide a forum in which postgraduate students working on aspects of biography can discuss, reflect on and debate aspects of the ‘biographical turn’ in scholarship and the media, as it relates to their work, and to their opportunities for professional development.
	www.anu.edu.au /hrc/conferences/conferences_2006/Using_Lives.php (562 words)

	Enrolling the people
		Australian electoral apparatus inherited from the mother country in the 1840s and 1850s was based on the 1832 Reform Act, which itself was the first time the UK 'codified' its electoral roll.
		Australian historical and political science academic accounts of the "secret ballot" often describe it as being designed in Australia and first used in Victoria in 1856.
		What was an Australian first, and has become, with exceptions, the norm across the world, was the "Australian ballot", which was a particular version of the secret ballot.
	www.enrollingthepeople.com (1858 words)

	Australian Dictionary of Biography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) is a multi volume project published by Melbourne University Press.
		A Supplementary volume of Australians not covered by the original volumes was released in 2005.
		The project should not be confused with the much smaller and older Dictionary of Australian Biography by Percival Serle first published in 1949.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_Dictionary_of_Biography (182 words)

	A big fella in his field - Obituaries - smh.com.au (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		A fellow of the Royal Australian Historical Society, in 1988 he was awarded an AO for service to education as a historian and biographer.
		In 2000 the History Council of NSW presented a citation in recognition of his substantial contribution to Australian biography and to the teaching and writing of Australian history.
		Nairn consolidated the dictionary's achievements, possessing as editor high administrative qualities, tact and literary skill, and proving as adept at cutting a superfluous phrase as in summarising a wordy paragraph.
	www.smh.com.au /news/obituaries/a-big-fella-in-his-field/2006/05/14/1147545204803.html (1316 words)

	Dictionary of Australian Biography We-Wy
		When General Birdwood was given command of the fifth army the choice of his successor in command of the Australian corps lay between Monash (q.v.) and White.
		A tremendous worker who had little time for hobbies or pastimes, he wrote with good humour and without venom; and even during the bitter period at the end of the eighteen seventies he was admired as a writer and as a man by both his followers and his opponents.
		He was one of the finest Australian orators and thinkers of his time, who especially in the federation movement did much to shape the destinies of his country.
	gutenberg.net.au /dictbiog/0-dict-biogWe-Wy.html (19967 words)

	Dictionary of Australian Biography G
		He was chosen for the 1882 Australian eleven but was not very successful, scoring 873 runs for an average of 18.18 and obtaining 32 wickets for an average of 22.75.
		He was the finest all-round Australian cricketer of his day and of the men since his time only Armstrong and Noble (q.v.) could dispute his pre-eminence.
		John's Australian Biographical Dictionary states that he was born on 20 July 1835, the Australian Encyclopaedia says 1836, the obituary notice in the Geographical Journal, "about the year 1847", and the Coolgardie Miner, at the time of his death, implied that the date was about 1820.
	www.gutenberg.net.au /dictbiog/0-dict-biogG.html (20414 words)

	The Talented Mr Boothby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		He was Returning Officer and Sheriff of the self-governing colony of South Australia from its very first election in 1857 (see three 1856 appointments) until his death almost half a century later.
		Transcripts at parliamentary committees on electoral matters, at which the Sheriff was invariably a witness, lend evidence to WRB being a prickly personality with difficult relations with his underlings, and perhaps with others as well.
		SA advocates tend to see the cross clauses of the 1858 Electoral Act as the beginning of the "real" Australian ballot.
	www.enrollingthepeople.com /boothby/boothby.htm (603 words)

	Full Description of Dictionary of Australian Biography: Databases & E-Resources (Library of Congress)
		Description: Contains over 1,000 biographies of Australians, or people closely connected with Australia, who died before the end of 1942.
		Australian Medical Pioneers Index (AMPI) - a database of over 3,000 pioneer doctors, from the 1700s through to 1875.
		OzLife : Australian Biography Index - provides access to the citations of biographical articles in major Australian newspapers.
	www.loc.gov /rr/ElectronicResources/full_description.php?MainID=1299 (135 words)

	Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 16
		While biography necessarily focuses on the individual, a range of biographies illuminates large themes in Australia's recent history, themes such as immigration, accelerating industrialization, urbanization and suburbanization, war (World War II, Korea, Malaya and Vietnam), material progress, increasing cultural maturity, conservative and radical politics, conflict and harmony, and the loss of isolation and innocence.
		This magnificent cumulative work, the ultimate source of Australian biography, continues to be a valuable reference for all libraries, large and small.
		Professor John Ritchie is general editor (since 1988) of the Australian Dictionary of Biography at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.
	www.mup.unimelb.edu.au /catalogue/0-522-84997-0.html (457 words)

	Australian Naval Personalities: Lives from the Australian Dictionary of Biography - Papers in Australian Maritime ...
		Educated at Taunton and as a cadet in HMS Britannia, he entered the Navy in 1866, served in flying squadrons in 1868 and 1872 and on the Channel and Australian Stations to 1876.
		In matters of policy he was a 'navalist'; for example, in February 1890 he opposed an increase in the Victorian military forces, suggesting that the money would be better applied to naval reparations.
		On Reid's election to the House of Commons in 1916, Collins advocated abolition of the High Commission in favour of permanent Australian representation in the British cabinet.
	www.navy.gov.au /spc/maritimepapers/piama17/collinsrobert.html (940 words)

	Colonial art benefactor dies suddenly, aged 72 - theage.com.au (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Mrs Simpson, the eldest of six children of the late media proprietor Sir Warwick Fairfax, was a benefactor of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the State Library of NSW and the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
		Mrs Simpson was a great advocate for Australian art and recently paid $540,000 at auction for Russell Drysdale's painting Deserted Out-Station, commissioned by her father in 1944 and sold as part of the John Fairfax corporate art collection last November.
		She contributed entries to the dictionary, most recently of the conservationist Annie Wyatt and her father-in-law, Edward Telford Simpson.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/01/05/1041566311038.html (505 words)

	Sutherland Shire Council - Biographies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Included are over 10,000 scholarly biographies of persons who were significant in Australian history.
		Australian Biography Online is a web-based biographical resource profiling some of the most extraordinary Australians of our time.
		The project draws from valuable material collected for Film Australia's Australian Biography TV series, which features remarkable and inspiring individuals who have had a major impact on our cultural, political and social life.
	www.suthlib.nsw.gov.au /ssc/suthlib.nsf/AllDocs/RWP28BFBEE3D6916B0FCA256E670023BE96?OpenDocument (274 words)

	Amazon.de: Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 14: 19401980 Dikel (Australian Dictionary of Biography): English ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 14: 19401980 Dikel (Australian Dictionary of Biography) (Gebundene Ausgabe)
		Provides Australians with fascinating, concise and informative descriptions of men and women from all walks of life who contributed their vision and energies to a growing nation.
		Biographies & Memoirs > Ethnic & National > Australian
	amazon.de /Australian-Dictionary-Biography-14-19401980/dp/052284717X (198 words)

	English Books > Encyclopaedias & Reference Works > Dictionaries Of Biography (Who's Who) > Index > World Retail Store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Australian Dictionary of Biography CD-ROM : Vols 1-12.
		Australian Dictionary of Biography : Index: Volumes 1 to 12 1788-1939
		Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians : Vol III.
	www.worldretailstore.com /index/BE-GBCB.html (571 words)

	Anthropology and Archaeology Biography Sources - Arts Information Sevices - LEARN - The University of Auckland Library
		Dictionary of New Zealand Biography Fulltext, browsable and keyword-searchable.
		Printed biographical dictionaries are shelved at 920 in the Arts Reference collection on Level 1 in the General Library.
		Biographical dictionaries for particular categories of person (such as trade unionists or teachers) are shelved with other material on the subject.
	www.library.auckland.ac.nz /subjects/anthro/biography.htm (264 words)

	Brief Profiles of Significant People \| K6 at Board of Studies
		The son of a labourer, he was apprenticed to a coal shipper of Whitby, later transferring to the navy.
		Mary Reiby was originally convicted as a man, `James Borrow' (and transported as `Molly Haydock') for stealing a horse at the age of 13.
		She was foundation secretary of the Women's Suffrage League of NSW and she campaigned vigorously for separate prisons for women.
	k6.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au /hsie/bsvt/back01.html (1755 words)

	Biography links - Internet links
		Australian medical pioneers index provides access to information obtained from sources such as medical registers, shipping records, newspapers, pictorial archives, and early medical publications.
		Published by Angus and Robertson in 1949, the Dictionary of Australian biography by Percival Serle contains 1030 biographies of Australians, or people closely connected with Australia, who died before the end of 1942.
		Ozlife, produced by the National Library of Australia, is an index to Australian biographical articles and book reviews from major Australian newspapers and select journals.
	www.sl.nsw.gov.au /links/biog.cfm (501 words)

	State Library of Queensland - Australian biography resources
		Australian Biography [new window http://www.trinity.wa.edu.au/plduffyrc/cross/austbiog.htm]: A collection of biographical resources organised by category.
		Australian Dictionary of Biography [new window http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/adbonline.htm]: Dictionary of national biography with over 10,000 scholarly biographies of significant Australians who died before 1980.
		Australian of the Year Biographies [new window http://www.australianoftheyear.gov.au]: This site provides biographies of Australians of the Year.
	www.slq.qld.gov.au /info/publib/ref/bio (94 words)

	Dictionary of New Zealand Biography project - Ministry for Culture and Heritage
		Over 3,000 biographies from the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography are now online at www.dnzb.govt.nz.
		The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography has achieved international recognition, taking a respected place alongside other print and electronic biographical projects such as the British Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, the Australian Dictionary of Biography and the American National Biography.
		In addition, we will be publishing 10 new biographies of prominent New Zealanders in 2006/7.
	www.mch.govt.nz /projects/web/dnzb.html (301 words)

	Macquarie University - Australia’s Innovative University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		An essayist, critic and fiction writer, she is a former Senior Lecturer in Australian literature at the University of Melbourne, and is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide.
		She is currently Professor of Australian Literature and Director of the Australian Studies program at the University of Sydney.
		She is currently an honorary associate at the Australian Centre for Educational Studies and an editorial advisor for the Macquarie Dictionary.
	www.humanities.mq.edu.au /Anthology/webpages/staff.htm (822 words)

	ANU - MAC - MEDIA - MEDIA RELEASES - 2006 - NOVEMBER - 091106 ADB ASHESTEAM
		The Australian side, selected by Maxwell, includes 11 all time greats drawn from the Australian Dictionary of Biography (www.adbonline.com.au), and the English side, selected by Martin-Jenkins comprises 11 English legends who are included in the Oxford DNB.
		However, it’s my good fortune that the Don will not appear in the Australian Dictionary of Biography until the next edition, so I am hopeful that my England XI will be unbeatable,” he said.
		He took the art of batting to a new level but also collected an enormous horde of wickets by cunning bowling, and was the equal of any fielder as a young athlete before age and good living expanded his figure.
	info.anu.edu.au /mac/Media/Media_Releases/_2006/_November/_091106_ADB_Ashesteam.asp (784 words)

	Abbeys Bookshop - Australian Dictionary of Biography V16 1940-1980 Pik-Z
		Volume 16 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography is the last of four volumes to deal with the period 1940-1980.
		The subjects come from all walks of life - from premiers, generals and bishops, through artists, actors and authors, farmers, to prostitutes, thieves and murderers - providing a cross-section of Australian society.
		This host of lives gives a picture of our society and provides insights into themes in Australia's recent history, including immigration, accelerating industrialization, urbanization, war (World War II, Korea, Malaya and Vietnam), increasing cultural maturity, conservative and radical politics, and the loss of isolation and innocence.
	www.abbeys.com.au /items/22/03/52 (217 words)

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