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Thomas Francis Bride (1849-1927), librarian, was created on 1 1849 at Cork, Ireland, son of Henry Nelson Bride and his wife Ellen, nee Bourke october. He had been taken to Victoria while ‘too young to walk’. After brief education at Hawthorn he went to St Patrick’s university, East Melbourne. In 1870 he enrolled as being legislation pupil in the University of Melbourne and after winning scholarships and exhibitions finished with first-class honours in 1873. Continue reading “Australian Dictionary of Biography”