http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/scripts/adbp-births-deaths.php A list of all those people in the Australian Dictionary of Biography who were born on this day. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020020b.htm JOHNSTON, GEORGE (1764-1823), soldier and farmer, was born on 19 March 1764 at Annandale, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, the son of Captain George Johnston, aide-de-camp to Lord Percy, later Duke of Northumberland. This patron secured for the young Johnston a second lieutenancy in the 45th company of marines on 6 March 1776. After serving at New York and Halifax in 1777-78, he was promoted first lieutenant and spent the next two years recruiting in England. In 1781 he embarked in H.M.S. and saw action against the French in the East Indies, where he was severely wounded. After six months leave in England he sailed in the with the marine detachment in the First Fleet, and reputedly was the first man ashore at Port Jackson in January 1788.... http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010425b.htm GOULBURN, HENRY (1784-1856), politician, was born on 19 March 1784 in London, the eldest son of Munbee Goulburn and his wife Susannah, daughter of the fourth Viscount Chetwynd, and brother of . He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1805; M.A., 1808), entered the House of Commons in 1808, and in 1810 became under-secretary at the Home Office. In August 1812 he became under-secretary for the colonies under and remained in that post until December 1821 when he was appointed chief secretary to the lord lieutenant of Ireland. He was an honourable man of high principles, a neat and industrious but unimaginative administrator. During his term as under-secretary the Colonial Office was firmly established within the framework of the British administration.... http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020511b.htm WALKER, GEORGE WASHINGTON (1800-1859), Quaker, shopkeeper and humanitarian, was born on 19 March 1800 in London, the twenty-first child of John Walker (1726-1821) by his second wife, Elizabeth, née Ridley. Because of the death of his mother and the absence of his aged father engaged in the saddle trade in Paris, he was brought up by his grandmother in Newcastle. He was educated by a Wesleyan schoolmaster near Barnard Castle, and apprenticed in 1814 to a linen draper. Impressed by the probity and wisdom of his Quaker employers and of York, a leading Quaker minister, he left the Unitarian persuasion of his family in 1827 and became a member of the Society of Friends. The next year he formed the first Temperance Society in Newcastle.... http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A060005b.htm RAMSAY, ROBERT (1818-1910), pastoralist and politician, was born in London on 19 March 1818, eldest son of Captain Robert Ramsay (1787-1846), 14th Regiment, and his wife Margaret, née Cruikshank. Educated in Edinburgh and at Harrow, he reached Sydney probably in the on 13 February 1839. After pastoral experience in New South Wales and Queensland he took up Rosalie Plains on the Darling Downs in April 1848. In July he was joined by and they acquired Cooyar, Lagoon Creek Downs, Kilcoy and other stations in the Burnett District. The partnership was dissolved in 1866 when Ramsay bought a share in 's Eton Vale run near Toowoomba. In 1897 this property, now freehold, was divided, Ramsay renaming his 35,000 acres (14,164 ha) Harrow. In London on 18 April 1855 he married Susan, daughter of William Fullerton Lindsay Carnegie of Spynie, Forfar, Scotland, and his wife Lady Jane, daughter of the 7th earl of Northesk.... http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A030176b.htm BLYTH FAMILY: ARTHUR (1823-1891) and NEVILLE (1825-1890), ironmongers, land investors and politicians, were born at Birmingham, England, the third and fourth sons of William Blyth and his wife Sarah, née Wilkins. They were educated at the King Edward VI Grammar School, Birmingham. In 1839 they emigrated to Adelaide with their parents and older brothers, William and Howard. After two years as general merchants and agents within the family business, Arthur and Neville entered into a prosperous partnership as ironmongers. They also invested heavily and successfully in land. Arthur was a promoter of the Northern Australia Co., and a director of the Burra mines and the National Bank, and Neville was a director of the Bank of South Australia.... http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A060263b.htm TAYLOR, HUGH (1823-1897), politician, was born on 19 March 1823 at Parramatta, New South Wales, eldest son of Hugh Taylor, general agent, and Elizabeth Brown, née O'Farrell, his house-keeper. His father had arrived in Sydney in 1815 in the with a life sentence for 'larceny from a person', and had been 'in Newgate before'. Educated by Daniel Thurston and at The King's School, Taylor became a butcher. He later became agent for many of the Sydney newspapers and wrote for the . On 29 December 1846 he married Frances Eliza Connor (d.1896) at St Patrick's Church, Parramatta, and was converted to Catholicism.... http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A060019b.htm REES, JOHN (1825-1917), farmer and politician, was born on 19 March 1825 at Lower Knowle, Bristol, England, son of John Rees, mechanic, and his wife Mary, née Graves. Educated locally, he worked in a lawyer's office before migrating to Geelong in 1849 with his wife Harriett, née Banfield, whom he had married at Bristol in 1848, and his brother Phillip. Successful on the Ballarat and Bendigo goldfields in 1851-52, he bought land at Little River in the Corio Shire in 1852, naming his property Lower Knowle. With other crop farmers threatened by cheaper South Australian imports, Rees supported the Geelong tariff protection campaign in 1856 and advocated grazing commons for farmers to fatten livestock. He was a delegate at the 1857 Land Convention which endorsed the commons principle and it was included in the 1860 Land Act to cover one million acres (404,690 ha). Rees later supported farmers who wished to select commons land put up for sale on easy terms.... http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A050297b.htm MITCHELL, DAVID SCOTT (1836-1907), book collector and national benefactor, was born on 19 March 1836 in Sydney, only son of Dr and his wife Augusta Maria Frederick, née Scott. In October 1852 he became one of the first undergraduates of the University of Sydney (B.A., 1856; M.A., 1859), where he won scholarships in mathematics, with prizes also in physics and chemistry; he also played cricket outside the university. In December 1858 he was admitted to the Bar but never practised though he is said to have later declined appointment as attorney-general.... http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070312b.htm BLACK, REGINALD JAMES (1845-1928), banker, stockbroker and politician, was born on 19 March 1845 in Sydney, son of John Henry Black, general manager of the Bank of New South Wales, and his wife Louisa, née Skinner. Educated at Sydney Grammar School, he joined the bank in 1863, serving at Penrith, Bathurst, Goulburn and Glen Innes. He was assistant inspector at head office in 1875-80, then manager at Bathurst until 1882 when he resigned to join the Sydney firm of Jones & Black, stock-brokers and financial agents. He had become a justice of the peace in 1873.... http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A050520b.htm LASSETTER, FREDERIC (1828-1911), merchant, was born in December 1828 at Taunton, Somerset, England, son of Matthew Lassetter (d.1887), Wesleyan minister, and his wife Elizabeth, née Bedford. In 1832 the family migrated to Sydney where Matthew became a confectioner and pastry-cook. In 1837 he accepted a call to Longford, Van Diemen's Land, and in 1842 opened a school in Launceston but after his wife died he left his family and went to America.... http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070382b.htm BOYD, ARTHUR MERRIC (1862-1940), artist, was the father of WILLIAM MERRIC (1888-1959), potter, and THEODORE PENLEIGH (1890-1923), artist.... http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100056b.htm LEE STEERE, ERNEST AUGUSTUS (1866-1957), pastoralist and businessman, was born on 19 March 1866 near Beverley, Western Australia, son of Augustus Frederick Lee Steere, grazier, and his wife Ellen Elizabeth, née Roe; was an uncle. The family had taken the name of Lee Steere in 1675 as a condition of the marriage between Fiducia Lee and John Steere at Plastoe, Surrey. Ernest was educated at Newcastle State School and the High School, Perth, and began work at 14.... http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/AS10131b.htm DORRINGTON, ANNIE (1866-1926), artist, was born on 19 March 1866 at Litchfield Ashe, Southampton, England, second of nine children of Richard Whistler, farmer, and his wife Sarah Mills, née Vines; Richard was a distant relation of the artist James McNeil Whistler. When Annie was aged 4 her father became a tenant farmer at Winkfield, Berkshire. The children led an idyllic childhood near the Thames, riding ponies, painting and skating. Annie was pretty and petite, later only about 5 ft 2 ins (160 cm) tall, with dark, curly hair. Her father died in 1887 and with her mother and siblings she migrated to Victoria in the in 1890. Also on the ship was Charles Dorrington, the bailiff who had come to manage the farm after her father's death.... http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100029b.htm LEACH, JOHN ALBERT (1870-1929), teacher and naturalist, was born on 19 March 1870 at Ballarat West, Victoria, son of William Leach, English-born coachsmith, and his wife Bedelia, née Honan, from Ireland. After matriculation from Creswick Grammar School, where he was dux, Leach worked as an unpaid student teacher at Dana Street State School, Ballarat, before gaining his trained teacher's certificate at the Melbourne Training College in 1890. He began a lifetime of professional employment with the Education Department of Victoria by teaching briefly at Mount Prospect and Footscray State schools and serving as head-teacher at Goyura (Rosebery) in the Mallee.... http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110501b.htm RUWOLT, CHARLES ERNEST (1873-1946), engineer and industrialist, was born on 19 March 1873 at Mieckenhagen, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany, son of Ernst Johann Christian Ruwoldt, farmer, and his wife Maria Catharina, née Engel. The family migrated in 1878 and took up wheat-farming at Mount Gambier, South Australia. Charles was educated at Yahl Paddock and Mount Gambier Public schools. During his apprenticeship in 1886-90 with James Martin & Co., machinery manufacturers at Gawler, he attended the State technical school there. For the next decade Ruwolt worked with various Victorian foundries and engineering manufacturers, including James Alston & Co., Warrnambool, the Phoenix Foundry, Ballarat, Austral Otis, South Melbourne, and Thompsons, Castlemaine.... http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/AS10143b.htm EDWARDS, MARION ('BILL') (1874-1956), transsexual barman, pony trainer and bookmaker, was born on 19 March 1874 at Murchison, Victoria, fourth child of John Edwards, a Welsh-born blacksmith, and his wife Margaret, née McKay, from Scotland. Marion claimed to have been born in Wales and brought to Australia by her parents at the age of 4, but it is probable that she used her father as a model for her male persona. According to her fanciful memoir, (Melbourne, 1907?), she worked on her uncle's farm on the Goulburn River, and as a waitress, refused offers of marriage and 'made hot love' to women. About 1896 she decided to dress and live as a man, claiming that this earned her more money. Edwards later purported to have appeared as a female impersonator entertaining troops in Africa during the Boer War and to have delivered horses to India.... http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080644b.htm GASCOIGNE, STEPHEN HAROLD (YABBA) (1878-1942), 'rabbito' and barracker, was born on 19 March 1878 at Redfern, Sydney, son of Amos Gascoigne, a dealer from Oxfordshire, England, and his native-born wife Catherine, née Bingham. As a child he was nicknamed 'Yabba' because he 'was a bit of a talker'. He described himself as a groom when he married Ada Florence Rogers at 471 Pitt Street in 1899. He later claimed to have fought in the South African War. However for the greater part of his life he was a 'rabbito', selling dressed rabbits door-to-door in Balmain and adjacent suburbs.... http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/AS10439b.htm SISLEY, BARBARA (1878-1945), teacher of speech and drama, was born on 19 March 1878 at Streatham, London, one of three daughters of Thomas Alexander Sisley, civil service clerk, and his wife Susan, née Sisley. Barbara was educated at Queen's College, Tufnell Park, and about 1899 came to Melbourne, where her father taught elocution. She attended Manuel College, Hawthorn, and, having been trained by her father, began working as a professional actress, touring Australia with and the comedy company. A friend later recalled her as 'long legged, eager' with 'pretty brown eyes' and a deep voice.... http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A160230b.htm SCHULZ, JOHANN FRIEDRICH WILHELM (1883-1964), schoolteacher and printer, was born on 19 March 1883 at Point Pass, South Australia, youngest of four children of Prussian-born parents Gottfried Schulz, labourer, and his wife Maria, née Späde. Educated at the Lutheran School and Immanuel College, Point Pass, Johann was appointed a teacher at the former school in 1901. He moved to Queensland in 1904 and taught at the Bethania Parish School. At the Evangelical Lutheran Chapel, Lights Pass, South Australia, on 26 April 1906 he married Ernstine Caroline Kruschel (d.1956). While continuing to teach at Bethania, he became a freelance reporter for the Brisbane in 1907. Back in South Australia, he taught at the Tanunda Lutheran Day School from 1912 until the wartime closure of all Lutheran schools in the State on 30 June 1917.... http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140691b.htm KEBLE, ALEXANDER ROBERT (1884-1963), geologist and palaeontologist, was born on 19 March 1884 at Hawthorn, Melbourne, third of seven children of George Samuel Keable, a clerk from London, and his Victorian-born wife Janet, née Falconer. Educated at Camberwell State School, Robert entered the law firm of Blake & Riggall as a clerk, but soon left to study classics with a view to entering the Church. At this time he changed his surname by deed poll to Keble after the Oxford divine and poet, John Keble. He took an active part in the life of St John's Church, Camberwell, becoming honorary secretary of its naturalists' club, founded in 1905 under the leadership of the vicar, Rev. A. W. Cresswell.... http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100050b.htm LEE, WALTER HENRY (DICK) (1889-1968), footballer, was born on 19 March 1889 at Collingwood, Melbourne, son of Walter Henry (Wal) Lee, labourer, and his wife Isabella, née Turnbull, both Collingwood born. Wal Lee played Australian Rules football for Britannia (precursor of the Collingwood Football Club) in 1882-88 and was the club's trainer in 1889-91. After helping to found the Collingwood Football Club in 1892 he served as head-trainer until 1942; his exceptional service was rewarded by appointment as a life governor of the (Royal) Melbourne Hospital in 1920.... http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A170609b.htm JOYNT, WILLIAM DONOVAN (1889-1986), soldier, printer and publisher, was born on 19 March 1889 at Elsternwick, Melbourne, third son of Edward Kelly Joynt, a commercial traveller from Ireland, and his Victorian-born wife Alice, née Woolcott. He attended the Grange Preparatory School, South Yarra, and Melbourne Church of England Grammar School (1904) before taking office jobs, including one with an accountancy firm in 1906-07. In 1909 he sailed for Rockhampton, Queensland, walked to Mackay, joined a coastal steamer bound for Cairns, and did bush and farm jobs in North Queensland. He then worked in the Victorian Mallee and in Western Australia, and was dairying and digging potatoes on Flinders Island, off Tasmania, when World War I began.... http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120313b.htm TUCKETT, JOSEPH HELTON (1890-1922), soldier and auctioneer, was born on 19 March 1890 at South Yarra, Melbourne, son of Arthur Helton Tuckett, auctioneer, and his wife Margaret, née Gibson, both Melbourne born. Joseph attended Melbourne Church of England Preparatory Grammar School (1898-1900), Malvern Grammar School and Hamilton Academy before starting work as an auctioneer. About 1913 he became a partner in his father's firm, Arthur Tuckett & Son.... http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140476b.htm HAYDON, PATRICK MAURICE (1890-1949), Catholic priest, was born on 19 March 1890 at Hornsby, Sydney, youngest of nine children of Irish-born parents Martin Haydon, hotelkeeper, and his wife Bridget, née Purcell. Patrick was educated at St Joseph's Convent School, Granville, St Mary's Cathedral School, Sydney, and St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill. Despite excellent academic prospects, he chose to study for the priesthood at St Patrick's College, Manly, and required dispensation from the canonical age of 24 in order to be ordained on 30 November 1912 at St Mary's Cathedral. In December he was appointed to Queanbeyan in the rural deanery as assistant to Fr Matthew Hogan.... http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150015b.htm KERRIGAN, ALAN BEVLY (1899-1977), barrister, was born on 19 March 1899 at Singleton, New South Wales, second child of native-born parents Walter Andrew Kerrigan, mercantile clerk, and his wife Ada Albenia, née Hobden. Alan's boyhood was spent at Dulwich Hill: he was the second pupil enrolled at Trinity Grammar School, founded by the rector of the parish (Bishop) G. A. Chambers who had a decisive influence on him. School and sports captain, Kerrigan won an exhibition to the University of Sydney (B.A., 1921). He then taught history at The King's School, Parramatta. Following his father's death in 1926, he decided to read law. Associate to , he passed the Barristers' Admission Board examinations and was admitted to the Bar on 4 June 1930. At St John's Anglican Church, Parramatta, on 9 July that year he married Anne Brownrigg Cowper, a descendant of .... http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140711b.htm EVE, SYDNEY JAMES WALLACE (1899-1978), sports administrator, and RICHMOND CAVILL (1901-1970), Olympic diver and woolclasser, were born on 23 October 1899 and 19 March 1901 at Parramatta, New South Wales, eldest and second of three sons of Albert Sydney Eve, a native-born tobacconist, and his English-born wife Freda Maude, daughter of the 'professor of swimming' . Jim and Dick were educated respectively at Neutral Bay and at Manly commercial public schools; they were taught to swim and dive at an early age by their mother and both belonged to Manly Amateur Swimming Club. In 1915 they accompanied their parents to San Francisco, United States of America; Jim attended Alamada High School, outclassed Dick in their early diving competitions, and won junior swimming and diving championships at the Panama Pacific International Exposition. Back in Sydney by 1917, Jim became a clerk and later a company secretary; Dick studied woolclassing through Sydney Technical College in 1921.... http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150409b.htm MELLOR, DAVID PAVER (1903-1980), professor of chemistry, was born on 19 March 1903 at Launceston, Tasmania, eldest of four children of Joseph Frederick William Mellor, a miner from England, and his Tasmanian-born wife Amy Florence Sarah, née Russell. David was educated at Launceston State High School and the University of Tasmania (B.Sc., 1926; M.Sc., 1928; D.Sc., 1945). After he graduated, he was employed as a chemist at the Electrolytic Zinc Co. of Australasia Ltd, Risdon, and in 1927 was the company's research scholar. In the following year he held a research fellowship at the Commonwealth Solar Observatory, Mount Stromlo, Canberra. He was appointed assistant-lecturer in chemistry at the University of Sydney in 1929. At St Chad's Anglican Church, Cremorne, on 17 August that year he married Nina Hilda Moses, a kindergarten teacher.... http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A170095b.htm BIALOGUSKI, MICHAEL (1917-1984), medical practitioner and intelligence agent, was born on 19 March 1917 at Kiev, Russia (Ukraine), and named Mykolo, younger son of Polish parents Gregorii Bialoguski, veterinary surgeon, and his wife Paulina, née Dudelzak, dentist. His father was a non-practising Jew, his mother a Christian; Bialoguski described his religion as Calvinist on his military papers but did not adhere to any religion later. In Wilno, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania), he attended secondary school (1927-35), studied viola at the conservatorium of music from 1927 and enrolled in medicine at the Stephen Bathory University in 1935. He married Irena Vandos but they divorced in 1941. An account of his early life held by the Australian Security Intelligence Organization states that he was jailed briefly after protesting against some of the actions of the occupying Red Army. ...