WHO IS WHO IN AUSTRALASIA.
Part II.
BIOGRAPHIES
OF
NOTABLE AUSTRALIANS.
Incorrupta rerum virorumque monumenta.
ABBOTT, Frederick William, D.S.O.,
Lieut.-Colonel of the New Zealand Defence
Forces; b. in Devonshire, England, in 1865.
He entered the New Zealand Volunteer
Forces in 1898, and served in the South
African campaign during 1900-2 with con-
tingents from his colony; mentioned in
despatches, awarded the Queen's Medal with
four clasps and the King's Medal with two
clasps, and was decorated with the D.S.O.
in 1902. Address — Defence Department,
Wellington, N.Z.
ABBOTT, John Henry Macartney,
author; s. of the late Sir Joseph Palmer
Abbott, sometime Speaker of the Legisla-
tive Assembly of New South Wales. Has
resided in England for several years. Author
of Tommy Cornstalk (being some account
of the less notable features of the South
African war from the point of view of the
Australian ranks; London 1902) and An Outlander in England (London 1905).
ABBOTT, William Edward, President
of the Pastoralists' Union of New South
Wales 1895-1907, member of the Executive
of the Union since 1890, and has been fre-
quently President of the Federal Council
of the Pastoralists' Association of Aust.; b.
Muswellbrook, Hunter River, N.S.W., Apr.
1, 1844, and 2nd s. of the late John Kings-
mill Abbott. He has been engaged in pas-
toral pursuits on the Upper Hunter since
1860, and was M.L.A. for the Upper Hunter
1889-91. He has been a member of the Royal
Society of N.S.W. since 1877, won the So-
ciety's bronze medal in 1884, and has writ-
ten several papers read before the Royal
Society and numerous contributions to the
Press) on pastoral and financial questions.
Unmarried. Address—Murrulla, Wingen,
N.S.W.
A'BECKETT, Hon. Thomas, Judge of
the Supreme Court of Victoria since 1886;
b. London, Aug. 31, 1886, s. of the late
Hon. T. T. a'Beckett, M.L.C. of Vic. Ar-
rived in Aust. in 1850, won studentship of
Inns of Court in 1859, called to bar Lin-
coln's Inn 1859 and Victn. bar 1860, mem-
ber of Council of University of Melbourne
since 1887. m. 1875, Isabella, d. of the late
Sir Archibald Michie, K.O.M.G., Q.C., Ad-
dress—Karbarook, Orrong Rd., Armadale,
Melbourne.
ABBAXAUB, Be*. Joeeph, Ph.D., Se- nior Minister of Melbourne Hebrew Con- gregation and President of Victn. Beck Din (Jewish Ecclesiastical Court); ft. London, Apr. 1, 1865, a, of Rev. Barnet Abrahams B.A., Dayan (Eccle- siastical Judge) of the Spanish and Por- tuguese Hebrew Congregations, London, erf. Jews' Coll. and Univ. Coll., London, Hebrew Seminary, Berlin, and Berlin Univ. (B.A. London 1875, Ph.D. Lelpsic 1881, Rabbinical Diploma of Berlin Seminary 1882, M.A. Melh. 1886). Arrived in Aust. Sept. 1883, member of Hospital Sunday Comte. since 1884 and of Comte. of Patriotic Fund, President of United Jewish Education Board 1806-1901. Wrote The Sources of the Midraah Echah Rab- bah (a critical investigation), m. Apr.16, 1886, •Rachel, c. d. of Rabbi A. B. Davis, late Chief Minister of N.S.W. Recreations — Cy- cling, Sandow's dumbbells, rowing, walking, reading to keep abreast of the literature of the day. Address— Albert St, E. Melbourne, ADAMS, Arthur K., novelist, poet, jour- nalist; Editor of The Red Psge in The Bulletin, Sydney, since October 1006; ft. at Lawrence, Otago, New Zealand, June 6, 1872, 2nd s. of C. W. Adams, Chief Sur- veyor o» Otago and Marlborough, N.Z. (now retired) — parents colonial born, father of English and mother of Irish stock; ei.
