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81O'REILLY, Dowell Philip (1865-1923) — poet and short story writer was born at Sydney on 18 July 1865. His father, the Rev. Thomas O Reilly, was a well known clergyman of the Church of England, who came of a family with many military and naval associations. (For an appreciation of… …
82BRACKEN, Thomas (1843-1898) — poet and journalist was born at Clones, near Dublin, in 1843. His mother died soon afterwards, his father when he was 10 years old. About two years later he was sent to Victoria where an uncle was a farmer near Geelong. He worked on his uncle s… …
83BRENNAN, Christopher John (1870-1932) — poet and scholar was the eldest son of Christopher Brennan, brewer, who had married Mary Ann Carroll. Both parents were Irish and both were in their twenties when C. J. Brennan was born at Sydney on 1 November 1870. He was educated at Riverview… …
84CRAWFORD, Robert (1868-1930) — poet son of Robert Crawford, born at Doonside, New South Wales, in 1868, was educated at The King s School, Parramatta, and the university of Sydney. He settled on a farm as his forefathers had done before him, but not succeeding, became a clerk… …
85McCRAE, George Gordon (1833-1927) — poet was born near Leith, Scotland, on 29 May 1833. His father, Andrew Murison McCrae, was a writer to the signet, Edinburgh, his mother, Georgiana Huntly McCrae, is noticed separately. His father sailed for Australia in advance in 1838, and… …
86TENNYSON, ALFRED, LORD — poet laureate, born at Somersby, in Lincolnshire, son of a clergyman, and of aristocratic descent; was educated at the grammar school of Louth and at Trinity College, Cambridge, which latter he left without taking a degree; having already… …
87Mighty Sparrow — Small Island Pride, King (Mighty) Sparrow and Sir Galba, mid 1950s The Mighty Sparrow Birth name Slinger Fr …
88GAY, William (1865-1897) — poet was born on 2 May 1865 at Bridge of Weir, in Renfrewshire, Scotland. His father, an upright religious man, was an engraver of patterns for wallpaper and calico, his mother came from people of education. The family moved not long afterwards… …
89WILLIAMSON, Frank Samuel (1865-1936) — poet was born at Melbourne on 19 January 1865. He was educated at the Scotch College, Melbourne, and was for some years a teacher in secondary schools in Melbourne and Sydney, but occasional bouts of intemperance made it difficult for him to keep …
90FOOTT, Mary Hannay (1846-1918) — poet was born at Glasgow on 26 September 1846. Her father, James Black, was a merchant who had married a Miss Grant, and came to Australia in 1853. Miss Black lived for some years with her parents near Melbourne and went to Miss Harper s school.… …
