Dictionary of australian biography serle

Biographical encyclopedia of Australians deceased before 1943

Not to be confused with Australian Dictionary of Biography.

The Dictionary of Australian Biography, published in 1949, is a reference work by Percival Serle containing information on notable people associated with Australianhistory.

Dictionary of australian biography serle

With approximately a thousand entries, the book took more than twenty years to complete. Published by Angus and Robertson, the dictionary was compiled as two volumes, Volume 1: A–K; and Volume 2: L–Z.

The book contains 1,030 biographies of Australians, or people who were closely connected with Australia, who died before the end of 1942.

According to Serle in his preface:^[1]

This date closed the first one hundred and fifty years of Australia's history, for although the first fleet arrived in January 1788, the first emigrant ship, the Bellona, did not come until January 1793.

Until then Australia had been merely a dumping ground for conv