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    James Hardy Vaux (c. 1782 - after 1841) was an English-born convict transported to Australia on three separate occasions. He was the author of Memoirs...
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    swag is to be the bearer of the stolen goods to a place of safety." James Hardy Vaux, a convict in Australia, used the term for similar purposes in his...
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    In 1810 he was the first ex-convict to be appointed as magistrate. James Hardy Vaux – author of Australia's first full-length autobiography and dictionary...
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    swag is to be the bearer of the stolen goods to a place of safety." James Hardy Vaux, a convict in Australia, used the term for similar purposes in his...
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  • Peter of Vaux de Cernay (floruit c.1215), Cistercian monk of Vaux de Cernay Abbey, in what is now Yvelines, northern France James Hardy Vaux (born 1782...
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  • clandestine, or covert manner, without publicity or openness".  James Hardy Vaux’s Vocabulary of the Flash Language (1812) defined the term "upon the...
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  • film director and actor James Hardy Vaux (1782–?), wrote the first Australian dictionary and used James Young as an alias James Scott Young (1848–1914)...
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  • for theft James Underwood (1771–1844) English shipbuilder, distiller and merchant, transported to New South Wales in 1790 James Hardy Vaux (1782–?), English...
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    which he was hanged Samuel Terry – wealthy merchant and philanthropist James Hardy Vaux – author of Australia's first full length autobiography and dictionary...
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    the 5th century, under the theory of "balancing hemispheres". Lieutenant James Cook, captain of HMS Endeavour, claimed the eastern portion of the Australian...
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    Pip and Simon Gipps-Kent as Young Pip, Sarah Miles and James Mason, directed by Joseph Hardy. 1981 – Great Expectations – a BBC serial starring Stratford...
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    Sir Joseph Banks, the eminent scientist who had accompanied Lieutenant James Cook on his 1770 voyage, was advocating establishment of a British colony...
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    Riverina. Two of the gang (including Moonlite's "soulmate" and alleged lover, James Nesbitt) and one trooper were killed when the police attacked. Scott was...
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    first European known to have sighted and landed on the island was Captain James Cook, on 10 October 1774, on his second voyage to the South Pacific on HMS Resolution...
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    Henry Savery James Hardy Vaux John Acton Wroth Explorers John Baxter James Meehan Joseph Wild Other convicts Esther Abrahams John Baughan James Bloodsworth...
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    Henry Savery James Hardy Vaux John Acton Wroth Explorers John Baxter James Meehan Joseph Wild Other convicts Esther Abrahams John Baughan James Bloodsworth...
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    It was officially opened on Saturday 18 December 1937 by the Reverend James Gibson, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Queensland; the ceremony...
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    coast of New South Wales, which had been explored and claimed by Lieutenant James Cook in 1770. The settlement was seen as necessary because of the loss of...
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    At the time, she was disguised as a boy and was going under the name of James Burrow. Sentenced to seven years' transportation, she arrived in Sydney...
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  • Allen (who had been in the navy), James Martin, Samuel Bird (alias John Simms,) Samuel Broom (alias John Butcher,) James Cox (alias Rolt,) Nathaniel Lillie...
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