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Beveridge, Peter (1829 - 1885) |
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| Anthropologist and Pastoralist | |||
| Born: 24 June 1829 Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Died: 4 October 1885 Woodburn, Victoria, Australia. | |||
| Peter Beveridge established cattle and sheep stations on the Murray, where he stayed 1845-68. He wrote many articles on the customs, dialects and myths of the Aboriginals of the Murray, Murrumbidgee and Darling areas. |
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| Born Fife, Scotland, 24 June 1829. Died Kilmore, 4 October 1885. Arrived Port Phillip 1839; Established Tyntynder station, ten miles down the Murray from the site of Swan Hill, with his older brother Andrew 1845; took up Piangil, about fifteen miles beyond Tyntynder 1846; stayed on the stations until 1868. Read a paper on aboriginal ovens to the London Anthropological Society 1869. Wrote "The Aborigines of Victoria and Riverina as Seen by Peter Beveridge" (1889). | ||
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