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Also Known As Edward Kelly
Born June 1855 • Australia
Died November 11, 1880 (aged 25) • Melbourne • Australia

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Bushranger attack
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Ben Hall
Ben Hall
Australian bushranger
Turnbull, Malcolm
Malcolm Turnbull
prime minister of Australia
Lalor, Peter
Peter Lalor
Australian politician
John Macarthur.
John Macarthur
Australian agriculturalist
Sir Henry Parkes
Sir Henry Parkes
Australian politician
Jack Lang
Jack Lang
Australian statesman
George Houston Reid
Sir George Houston Reid
prime minister of Australia
W.C. Wentworth
Australian politician
Edmund Barton
Sir Edmund Barton
Australian statesman
Sir James McCulloch
Australian politician
Samuel Terry
Australian landowner
Theodore Fink
Australian politician and publisher
William Bligh
William Bligh
English admiral
1st Viscount Chelmsford
Frederic John Napier Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford
British statesman
Oxley, John
John Oxley
British explorer
Evans, George William
George William Evans
English surveyor and explorer
Sir Henry Barkly
British colonial administrator
Mitchell, Sir Thomas Livingstone
Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell
British explorer
Duffy, Sir Charles Gavan
Sir Charles Gavan Duffy
Irish politician
Hugh Childers, detail of an oil painting by Emily Childers (his daughter), 1891; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Hugh Culling Eardley Childers
British politician

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