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The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

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Badham, Charles
Badham, Herbert
Bagatella, Rino
Baggs, Sydney A
Baglin, Douglass
Bagnall, William
Bailey, Amelia
Bailey, Bert
Bailey, Charles
Bailey, Robin
Bailey, Victor Albert
Bain, James C
Bainbridge, George
Baird, Bruce George
Bakaitis, Helmut
Baker, Frederick
Baker, Glenn A
Baker, Harold
Baker, Maggie
Baker, Mary
Baker, Richard
Baker, Robert Walter
Baker, Sidney John
Baker, William
Baldwin, Peter
Baldwinson, Arthur
Balfour, James Lawson
Ball, Henry Lidgbird
Ball, RT
Ball, Thomas
Ballederry
Ballooderry
Balmain, William
Balson, Ralph
Baly, Edward
Bandler, Faith
Bangai
Banks, John D
Banks, Joseph
Bannister, Saxe
Banuri, Sayyid Mahomet Shah
Baptist, John
Barangaroo
Barber, Elizabeth
Barber, Jane
Bardsley, William
Barff, Henry Ebenezer
Barff, Jane Foss
Barker, Frederic
Barker, James

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Badham, Charles

Renowned scholar who became Professor of Classics and was to influence the role of public examinations and the growth of a free public library in Sydney.

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Badham, Herbert

Modernist artist and writer whose figurative paintings depicted city life and beach scenes.

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Bagatella, Rino

Italian community leader who assisted in the foundation of Club Marconi.

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Baggs, Sydney A

Architect who specialized in the environmental impact of buildings.

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Baglin, Douglass

Photographer who documented many of Sydney's heritage buildings.

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Bagnall, William

Local identity in Brookvale in late nineteenth century.

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Bailey, Amelia

Soprano.

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Bailey, Bert

Actor, writer and theatrical manager who became famous in film as Dad Rudd.

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Bailey, Charles

Tugboat operator in Balmain at the beginning of the twentieth century.

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Bailey, Robin

English actor of theatre and television.

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Bailey, Victor Albert

Physicist.

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Bain, James C

Suburban vaudeville entrepreneur.

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Bainbridge, George

Early pilot at Watsons Bay.

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Baird, Bruce George

State and federal Liberal politician who held public office between 1984 to 2007.

 

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Bakaitis, Helmut

Film and theatre director, actor and screenwriter.

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Baker, Frederick

Organ builder who made the organ at St Benedict's Catholic church Broadway.

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Baker, Glenn A

Australian journalist, commentator and broadcaster well known for his vast knowledge of Rock music.

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Baker, Harold

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Notable sportsman who won three New South Wales swimming championships in 1906 and captained the Australian water polo team. He played Rugby football for Australia three times against New Zealand. He also won boxing and wrestling championships and worked as a boxing referee. Once described as a 'man with a marble mouth and a jaw of steel. A man of ice with frozen eyes and a frozen voice', he became famous for his role in the Coogee Beach surf rescue of 1911.

Baker, Maggie

Policewoman who was serving in the police force during the time of Sydney's razor gangs and was described by author Larry Writer as Lillian Armfield's 'right-hand woman'. Baker's true identity is not known as she adopted a pseudonym when describing her memories of the famous gangland figures, Kate Leigh and Tilly Devine.

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Baker, Mary

Orchardist, who with her husband, was one of the first in the Lindfield area.

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Baker, Richard

Botanist, curator and academic whose studies of Australian plants, particularly eucalypts, were often controversial.

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Baker, Robert Walter

Gallipoli veteran who took up land at Bankstown Soldier Settlement.

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Baker, Sidney John

Philologist and author of The Australian Language (1966).

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Baker, William

Pioneering orchardist in the Lindfield area.

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Baldwin, Peter

Activist and Labor politician who served in both state and federal parliaments and was bashed for exposing corruption in Labor Party branches in Sydney.

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Baldwinson, Arthur

Architect and teacher whose work influenced both town planning and domestic architecture in Sydney.

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Balfour, James Lawson

Prominent portrait painter based at Dee Why.

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Ball, Henry Lidgbird

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Commander of HMS Supply in the First Fleet who explored Port Jackson and discovered and named Lord Howe Island.

Ball, RT

Engineer, businessman and politician.

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Ball, Thomas

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Senior Constable who was one of several police officers commended for bravery and promoted to sergeant due to his actions in the Bridge Street Affray in 1894. He died at the age of 50 at his home in Leichhardt, leaving a widow and five young children.

Ballederry

Aboriginal fisherman who traded fish with officers at Parramatta in the early days of settlement.

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Ballooderry

Aboriginal man of the Burramattagal clan.

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Balmain, William

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First Fleet assistant surgeon, later principal surgeon and landowner.

Balson, Ralph

Trained at the Julian Ashton school, Balson's geometric abstractions were among the most advanced modern painting of his generation in Sydney.

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Baly, Edward

Teacher and one-time lecturer on mesmerism who became master of several small schools in Sydney and Parramatta between the 1840s and 1860s.

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Bandler, Faith

Writer, activist and campaigner for human and civil rights.

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Bangai

Aboriginal man who was an ally of the Wangal man, Woollarawarre Bennelong. He was shot by Royal Marines as he and another man, Bigon, were robbing a potato garden at Dawes Point. Surgeon John White was led by Nanbarry and an Aboriginal woman nearby where they found his body. He had bled to death.

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Banks, John D

Landscape artist who painted many works around the Harbour.

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Banks, Joseph

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Botanist on the Endeavour who recommended Botany Bay for penal settlement.

Bannister, Saxe

Barrister and the colony's first attorney general whose professional competence was very quickly called into question.

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Banuri, Sayyid Mahomet Shah

Highly educated Muslim religious leader whose travel was restricted by the enforcement of the immigration legislation.

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Baptist, John

Prominent horticulturalist in inner Sydney who owned 40 acres of nursery and market gardens on Bourke Street, Redfern. He also owned land at Roseville. 

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Barangaroo

Barangaroo was an Eora woman of the Cameragal people. Second wife of Bennelong, she was a skilled fisherwoman with presence and authority in her community and the early colony.

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Barber, Elizabeth

Convict tried at the Old Bailey, London in 1782 for assault and robbery and sentenced to seven years' transportation.

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Barber, Jane

Landowner in Pitt Street.

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Bardsley, William

Headmaster, Forest Lodge Public School, 1883 to 1922

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Barff, Henry Ebenezer

Registrar of the University of Sydney from 1882 until his retirement in 1924.

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Barff, Jane Foss

Educationist who was in only the second group of women to be admitted to the University of Sydney in 1884. She tutored women students and promoted the cause of women undergraduates.

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Barker, Frederic

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Second Anglican bishop of Sydney and a founder of Moore Theological College.

Barker, James

Businessman who took over his brother's milling business in 1834. His partnership with Ambrose Hallen however was one of the early failures in the depression of the 1840s.

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