3 posts tagged “history”

In case you couldn't settle on a career from the last list, here is a second dip!

Gascoigne, Stephen Harold (1878 - 1942) ‘rabbito’ and barracker

Girardin, Louis - see Girardin, Marie-Louise Victoire (1754 - 1794) ship’s steward and cross-dresser

Gocher, William Henry (1856 - 1921) artist, bimetallist and pioneer daylight surfer

Grant, John (1776 - ) agitator and minor poet

Green, Alexander (c. 1802 - ) flogger and public executioner

Griffin, Thomas John Augustus (1832 - 1868) policeman, gold commissioner and murderer

Groom, James - see Pamphlett, Thomas (1789? - 1838) castaway

Hack, Wilton (1843 - 1923) utopist

Hagai, Francis (1940? - 1974) cult leader

Hargraves, Edward Hammond (1816 - 1891) gold rush publicist

Hayes, William Henry (Bully) (1829 - 1877) adventurer, swindler and blackbirder

Innes, Annabella - see Boswell, Annabella Alexandrina Campbell (1826 - 1914) diarist and gentlewoman

Irving, John ( - 1795) a convict ‘bred to surgery’

Jenyns, Sarah Ann (1865 - 1952) surgical instrument maker and corset manufacturer

Juan, John (1901 - 1979) adagio dancer, radio announcer and compere

Kearns. Eliza - see Tracey, Eliza (1842? - 1917) litigant

Keen, Joseph (1819 - 1892) curry-powder maker

Knorr, Frances Lydia Alice (Minnie) (1867 - 1894) baby-farmer

Kreitmayer, Maximilian Ludwig (Max) (1830 - 1906) waxworks proprietor

Lampungmeiua, Charlie One (1920? - 1974) coastwatcher

Laver, Ralph Herbert (1874 - 1962) food preserver

Lee, Kathleen Mary Josephine - see Leigh, Kathleen Mary Josephine (1881 - 1964) crime entrepreneur

Liguori, Sister Mary - see Partridge, Bridget [Sister M. Liguori] (1890 - 1966) lapsed nun

Lindrum, Frederick William (1888 - 1958) billiard prodigy

Lorimer, Philip Durham (1843 - 1897) wanderer and poet

Lynch, Arthur Alfred (1861 - 1934) rebel and polymath

McEncroe, Francis Gerard (Frank) (1908 - 1979) inventor of the Chiko roll

Mahoney, Joseph - see Marconi, Joseph Cornelius (1876 - 1922) goanna oil manufacturer

Meagher, James Anthony (Jim) (1894 - 1975) solicitor and raconteur

Mendelsohn, Oscar Adolf (1896 - 1978) polymath, bon vivant and public analyst

Murn, Edith - see Pardey, Edith Emma (1896 - 1963) pianola-roll pianist

Murphy, Herbert Dyce (1879 - 1971) gentleman adventurer and raconteur

Noblet, Marie Thérèse Augustine (1889 - 1930) Catholic mystic

Norton, Rosaleen Miriam (1917 - 1979) painter and self-styled witch

O'Farrell, Henry James (1833 - 1868) paranoic

Paine, Arnold Gerald Stewart (1897 - 1979) soapbox orator

Palmer, Henry Wilfred (1877 - 1956) tuberculosis sanatorium superintendent

Parkinson, Sydney (1745? - 1771) natural history draughtsman

Perry, Joseph Henry (1863 - 1943) Salvationist and showman

Petrie, Thomas (1831 - 1910) explorer, grazier and friend of Aboriginals

Petterd, William Frederick (1849 - 1910) scientist and boot importer

Phillips, Gilbert Edward (1904 - 1952) neurosurgeon and wine connoisseur

Phillips, Mary Beatrice - see Watson, Mary Beatrice Phillips (1860 - 1881) heroine

Pomeroy, John (1873 - 1950) inventor and pieman

Prevost, Maria Caroline Verona (Ronnie) (1895 - 1976) 'flapper'

Rebell, Fred (1886 - 1968) lone sailor and rebel

Rentoul, John Laurence (1846 - 1926) clergyman and controversialist

Ross, John (1833 - 1920) co-operative and radical

Russell, Philip (1822? - 1892) flock-master and politician

Rymill, John Riddoch (1905 - 1968) polar explorer and farmer

Sandford, Gladys (1891 - 1971) motorist

Sleep, Alfred Reginald (1893 - 1959) home missionary and private detective

Stace, Arthur Malcolm (1885 - 1967) pavement scribe

Vékey, Zsigmond - see Wekey, Sigismund (1825? - 1889) solicitor, pamphleteer and man of affairs

Whelan, James Paul (Jim) (1864 - 1938) wrecker

Whitfield, George (1808 - 1864) gunsmith and taxidermist

A neurosurgeon who is a wine connoisseur is a bit of a worry I fear!

 Browsing the online Australian Dictionary of Biography showed me that I am definitely living in the wrong era. If I had only been born years prior I could have enjoyed the career of "sex reformer and eccentric", "versifier and swindler", "wild white man" or "ferry-boat master and poisoner". Below is a sample of some of the more interesting people!

Thomas - see Orton, Arthur (1834 - 1898) presumed imposter

Cavill, Frederick (1839 - 1927) ‘professor of swimming’

 Chabrillan, Céleste de (1824 - 1909) courtesan and author

Chapman, Israel (1794? - 1868) convict and policeman

Charleston, Ellen - see Martel, Ellen Alma (Nellie) (1855 - 1940) suffragist, elocutionist and parliamentary candidate

Chave, Alfred Cecil (1905 - 1971) tennis administrator, broadcaster and fruit merchant

Chidley, William James (1860? - 1916) sex reformer and eccentric

Chifley, Joseph Benedict (Ben) (1885 - 1951) prime minister and locomotive engine driver

Chisholm, Margaret Sheila Mackellar (1895 - 1969) high society beauty

Clark, Fred - see Mulga Fred (1874? - 1948) Aboriginal buckjumper

Clement, Margaret (1881 - 1952?) missing person

Coates, James (1901 - 1947) confidence man

Cochrane, George Henry - see Hervey, Grant (Madison) (1880 - 1933) versifier and swindler

Colleano, Con (Cornelius) (1899 - 1973) tightwire artist

Collins, John William Fitzclarence (1906 - 1941) pastoralist, skier, horseman and aviator

Conder, Charles Edward (1868 - 1909) painter, lithographer and fan-designer

Cook, John Malcolm - see Roberts, Murray Beresford (1919 - 1974) impostor and swindler

Cooper, Caroline Ethel (1871 - 1961) letter-writer, traveller and musician

Cooper, Robert Joel (Joe) (1860 - 1936) buffalo hunter

Copeley, Joseph Herbert (1897 - 1977) rabbiter

Cotton, Thomas Richard Worgan (1907 - 1970) soldier and intelligence officer

Cox, Samuel Emanuel (1773? - 1891) wild white man

Cracknell, Edward Charles (1831 - 1893) superintendent of telegraphs, electrical engineer and torpedo expert

Cromer, Victor - see Kroemer, Victor Eugene (1883 - 1930) printer, socialist, clairvoyant and healer

Crooks, Alexander (1847 - 1943) bank manager, cricketer and embezzler

Crossley, George (1749 - 1823) attorney and convict

Cubadgee, Dick (1870 - 1889) Aboriginal guide and cultural broker

Darcy, James Leslie (Les) (1895 - 1917) boxer and folk hero

Davis, James (1808 - 1889) absconder and shopkeeper

Davis, John King (1884 - 1967) Antarctic navigator

Dean, George (1867 - 1933) ferry-boat master and poisoner

Deen, Fazal (1898? - 1963) hawker, battery-operator and entrepreneur

de Rougemont, Louis (1847 - 1921) hoaxer

Desmond, Arthur (1859? - 1926?) agitator and author

Devine, Matilda (Mary) (1900 - 1970) madam

Dobbie, Alexander Williamson (1843 - 1912) brassfounder, merchant and inventor

Dodd, Tommy (1890? - 1975) stockman and cameleer

Dodge, Ettie (1885 - 1973) vigoro administrator

Donnithorne, Eliza Emily (1826? - 1886) recluse and eccentric

Drysdale, Anne (1792 - 1853) woman squatter

du Breil, Charles Marie Bonaventure - see Rays, Marquis de (1832 - 1893) speculator and romantic

Dullo, Walter Andreas (1902 - 1978) chocolate-maker and musicologist

Dunlop, Eliza Hamilton (1796 - 1880) lyric writer and student of the Aboriginals

Dunn, Andrew (1854 - 1934) founder of a newspaper empire

Dunningham, Sir John Montgomery (1884 - 1938) bookmaker and politician

Dwyer, Michael (1772? - 1825) Irish revolutionary and political exile

Edwards, Marion (Bill) (1874 - 1956) transsexual barman, pony trainer and bookmaker

Evans, Harold Cecil (1902 - 1954) surfboat sweep and furrier

Evans, Ivor William (1887 - 1960) flag designer and canvas goods manufacturer

Evans, Lillie Elizabeth - see Goodisson, Lillie Elizabeth (1860? - 1947) racial hygienist

Fairbridge, Kingsley Ogilvie (1885 - 1924) Imperialist and idealist

Farrar, Phoebe Elizabeth (1868 - 1960) bushwoman

Flying Pieman - see King, William Francis (1807 - 1873) pedestrian and street character

Foley, Laurence (Larry) (1849 - 1917) pugilist and contractor

Forbes, Alexander - see Forbes, William Anderson (1839 - 1879) bush balladist

Forster, Johann Georg Adam (1754 - 1794) German writer, traveller and revolutionary

Foy, Harry Sidney (1901 - 1942) barman and female impersonator

Frame, Andree Marcelle (1910 - 1967) masseuse and childbirth educator

Franklin, Jane (1791 - 1875) protagonist, governor's lady and patron of science

Fraser, Eliza Anne (c. 1798 - 1858?) shipwreck victim and source of myth and legend

Freeman, Paul (1884? - 1921) deportee and Comintern functionary

http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/browse_people_C_19.htm

Worth Fighting For! - Online Exhibition

http://www.library.uq.edu.au/fryer/worth_fighting/

This year marks the centenary of women's suffrage in Queensland and also heralds forty years since Queensland’s Indigenous people won the right to vote in state elections. While many events in 2005 will focus on the history of the Suffrage Movement, this display explores some of the contributions that women have made to political life in Queensland.

Political contributions have taken many forms over the last century. They have come not only from women parliamentarians, but also unionists, activists and many grassroots organisations. Until significant numbers of women were elected to parliament in the 1990s, women often chose to effect change through protest. Recurring issues were Indigenous Rights, Peace, and Workplace Reform. Whether it was a housewife signing a petition, an activist protesting on the street or a Senator working within the corridors of power, many women from different backgrounds effected political and social change in Queensland.

The stories told here provide snapshots into the past, rather than a comprehensive history of women’s political activism in Queensland. They are windows which also give a glimpse of the close networks that often transcended organisational affiliation and political persuasion to further the rights of women and the issues they felt passionately about — the issues Worth Fighting For!

To see and read more visit  http://www.library.uq.edu.au/fryer/worth_fighting/