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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: John Dunmore Lang, James Forbes, Samuel Marsden, James Moorhouse, Douglas Nicholls, Danny Nalliah, Ross Clifford, Dave Andrews, Charles Strong, Arthur Aspinall, Patrick Francis Moran, August Kavel, Barry Chant, William Miller, Peter Foxhall, John Flynn, George Augustus Robinson, Robert E. Sackley, Gotthard Fritzsche, Feiz Mohammad, William Grant Broughton, Peter Jensen, Richard Johnson, Geoffrey Robinson, Johann Friedrich Krummnow, Allan Harman, Roger Herft, James Duhig, Bill Crews, Mark Tronson, Tim Costello, Edward Idris Cassidy, Robert Forsyth, John Polding, Rowland Croucher, Geoffrey Blackburn, Arthur Worthington, John Charles Wright, James Knox, David Richardson, David Mulready, Field Flowers Goe, John Masso, Pat Power, Kenneth N. Robinson, Peter William Ingham, Michael Frost, Ken Chant, Joseph Dare, Robert Dunne, Bishop of Grafton and Armidale, Ernest Burgmann, Fehmi Naji, Mark Durie, John Stewart. Excerpt: John Dunmore Lang (25 August 1799 - 8 August 1878), Australian Presbyterian clergyman, writer, politician and activist, was the first prominent advocate of an independent Australian nation and of Australian republicanism. Lang was born near Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland, the eldest son of William Lang and Mary Dunmore. His father was a small landowner and his mother a pious Presbyterian, who dedicated her son to the Church of Scotland ministry from an early age. He grew up in nearby Largs, and was educated at the University of Glasgow, where he excelled, winning many prizes, and graduating as a Master of Arts in 1820. His brother, George, had found employment in New South Wales and Lang decided to join him. He was ordained by the Presbytery of Irvine on 30 September 1822. Arriving in Sydney Cove on 23 May 1823 he became the first Presbyterian minister in the colony of New South Wales. On the way back from ...
