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Rolf Boldrewood

Died in 1915

Thomas Alexander Browne was born on 6 August 1826 in London. His parents moved to Sydney in 1831; he was educated there, finishing his studies in Melbourne. In 1844, he took up a grazing run in Victoria, then others in New South Wales, before drought drove him from them. Police magistrate at Gulgong in 1871, gold commissioner the following year, he then served at Dubbo, Armidale and Albury until 1895. He signed as Rolf Boldrewood, after a line by Walter Scott, published sixteen works of fiction and died on 11 March 1915 in South Yarra, near Melbourne.

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