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The Dictionary of Australian Biography, published in 1949, is a reference work by Percival Serle containing information on notable people associated with Australian history. With approximately a thousand entries, the book took more than twenty years to complete. It shouldn't be confused with the multi-volume Australian Dictionary of Biography published by Melbourne University Press in 1966. The book contains 1030 biographies of Australians, or men who were closely connected with Australia, who died before the end of 1942. According to Serle in his preface:

"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, didn't come until January 1793. Until then Australia had been merely a dumping ground for convicts, but the arrival of free emigrants foreshadowed the founding of a nation."

The average length of the biographies is about 640 Words, and Serle classified them roughly into the following twelve groups:

Army and Navy - 10
Artists, including architects, actors, and musicians - 130
Governors and administrators - 50
Lawyers - 69
Literary men and women - 137
Notorieties - 17
Pioneers, explorers, pastoralists, men of business - 161
Politicians - 174
Scholars, philosophers, clergymen - 76
Scientists, including physicians, surgeons, and engineers- 140
Social reformers, philanthropists, educationists - 53
Sporting men (cricketers and athletes) - 13

The number of women included is 42; 4% of the biographies. 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.
Prior to its publication similar Australian reference works included:

John Henniker Heaton's' Australian Dictionary of Dates and Men of the Time, 1897

David Blair's Blair's Cyclopaedia of Australasia, 1881

Philip Mennell's The Dictionary of Australasian Biography from the Inauguration of Responsible Government, 1892

Fred Johns' Johns's Notable Australians, 1906 later editions were published as Who's Who in Australia

Fred Johns' An Australian Biographical Dictionary, 1934

The Australian Encyclopaedia 1925-1926 Subsequently other Australian biographical dictionaries have been released including:

Australian Dictionary of Biography from 1966

Who's Who in AustraliaFurther Information
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