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Eileen Olive Leach was born in Croydon, Surrey, England, on 16 June 1909, the daughter of Mary Olivia Rumball and her husband, commercial clerk Alfred Leach. Alfred lost his money when the bank he worked in collapsed…

Jane Crook was born on 7 January 1894 in Ferntown, near Collingwood, Nelson, the eighth of ten children of Jane Appleyard and her husband, William Crook, a miner. A schoolteacher with whom Jane was friendly persuaded…

Edward Devine, one of the family of five daughters and five sons of Thomas Devine, a farmer, and his wife, Anne, was born at Brighton, Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), probably on 10 August 1833. As a young man, Ned Devine…

Ann Gleeson was born in the village of Adare, County Limerick, Ireland, probably some time between 1827 and 1831, to Ann Roberts and her husband, Patrick Gleeson, a farmer. The Gleeson family was comfortably off, and…

John Dickie was born in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, on 20 May 1875, the son of Ann Petrie and her husband, John Dickie, a police carter. The family later moved north to farm in the Buchan district of the county,…

Julia Diana Dickson, called in religion Mary Bernard, was born at Ipswich, Suffolk, England, probably in 1810 or 1811, daughter of Richard Lothian Dickson and his wife, Julia Dickson. An adult convert to Catholicism,…

Johann Karl Ernst Dieffenbach is said to have been born at Giessen in the Grand Duchy of Hesse on 27 January 1811. The son of a respected Protestant cleric and professor of theology at the university of Giessen, Ernst…

Spencer Harry Gilbee Digby was born at Dagenham, Essex, England, on 26 June 1901, the son of master butcher Harry Digby and his wife, Ada Helen Holttum. After leaving school he worked for a time as a clerk with the meat…

Patrick Dignan was born in Loughrea, County Galway, Ireland, probably in 1813 or 1814, the son of Peter Dignan and his wife, Margaret Lynch. Nothing is known of his life in Ireland. He emigrated to New South Wales in…

James Dilworth, the son of Mary Bell and her husband, John Dilworth, a farmer, was born probably at Donaghmore, County Tyrone, Ireland, on 15 August 1815. After a sound education at the nearby Royal Dungannon School,…

Joan Dingley was a mycologist, expert in plant taxonomy, horticulturalist and gardener who worked for 35 years in the Plant Diseases Division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR). Her…

Walter Dinnie was born in Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, probably on 26 December 1850, the son of Celia Hay and her husband, Robert Dinnie, a wealthy contractor, who was also a local historian and poet. Educated at…

Percy Reginald Dix was born in Launceston, Tasmania, on 17 November 1866, the son of Richard Porrett Dix, a chemist, and his wife, Emma Elizabeth Nelson Thame. Intending to become a chemist Percy studied for and passed…

Herbert Boucher Dobbie was born on 13 February 1852 at Hayes, Middlesex, England, the son of Herbert Main Dobbie, an officer of the Madras Army, and his wife, Ellen Locker. The family moved to Madras three months later…

Edward Dobson was born in London, England, probably in 1816 or 1817, the son of Elizabeth Barker and her husband, John Dobson, a merchant. In 1832 his widowed mother apprenticed him to an architect and surveyor. He…

Elsie Low was born on 25 July 1875 at Horndon on the Hill, Essex, England, the youngest of five children of Sabine Susanna Harris and her husband, Benjamin Low, general storekeepers. The family left England for…

Frederick Widdowson Doidge was born at Cootamundra, New South Wales, on 26 February 1884, the son of Edwin Doidge and his wife, Mary Lucy Chilcott. His father had been a journalist in Thames, New Zealand, before…

Alfred Domett is said to have been born on 20 May 1811 at Camberwell Grove, Surrey, England, and was baptised on 4 November 1812 at Bermondsey. His father, Nathaniel Domett, was a ship owner of naval and merchant…

Alexander Don was born in a tent at Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, on 22 January 1857, the eldest of the 10 children of John Don, a goldminer, and his wife, Janet Nicol. Both parents came from Scotland where his father…

Frances May Labes was born in Castle Street, Dunedin, on 24 October 1898. Her mother, Maria (Mary) Louisa Labes, was of Prussian and Scottish descent, and her father was probably Harry Freeman, a carpenter. In 1901 Mary…