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This impressive book contains biographies of twenty-four prominent men in Australia’s history. Each biography is written with warmth and detail and is accompanied by a sketch portrait.

This book also contains two additional sections:

• The Constitution Act
• The History of the Soudan Expedition: A historical record of the events relating to the levy, despatch and return of the New South Wales Contingent, raised for service in Egypt, March-June 1885.

Extract from the biography of Sir John Robertson:

Sir John is almost a native of the colony, having arrived at such an early age as to make his four years of infancy in England of little practical moment in this connection. He was of mixed parentage, his father being Scottish and his mother English. The fourth of a family of six children, he was born on the 15th October, 1816, at Bow, in Essex. Four years after, his father took advantage of the facilities offered to emigrate to this colony, where the future apostle of land legislation landed just sixty years ago...

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