[pen-name of Thomas Alexander Browne]. Anglo-Australian novelist, born in London the 6th of August 1826 and educated at Sydney College, N.S.W. He had an adventurous early life in Australia, being successively a sheep farmer, a pioneer squatter in Victoria and police magistrate and warden of goldfields till 1895. These varied colonial experiences furnished him with material for his long series of bushranging novels, of which Robbery under Arms is the most widely known. This book was published in 1888 in London after it had run as a serial in the Sydney Mail. Amongst his other books are The Miner’s Right (1890); A Modern Buccaneer (1894); The Babes in the Bush (1900) and A Tale of the Golden West (1906). He died at South Yarra, Melbourne, on the 11th of March 1915.
