52:; by August 1865 he was advertising himself as an accountant and commission agent at Port Denison (Bowen) under the name Edgar J. Byrne. He earned his spurs and a solid reputation as an Australian 'bushman' during the famed 1860s Gulf country rush. He subsequently worked for several years as an occasional free-lance journalist on Queensland's north-western frontier before marriage, urban family life and a full-time position in journalism finally caught up with him. He settled initially in Maryborough in 1871 but was persuaded to move south to Brisbane with his family in late 1878.
45:'Bobby' Byrne was born in Pennyfields, Poplar, East London, in April 1843, and was of Scottish descent. He had two brothers, Julius Byrne, a stockbroker of Gracechurch Street, London, and Dr Theodore E. D. Byrne, better known as the "Jumping Doctor of Gympie". The latter was originally a surgeon apprenticed to a parish doctor at Islington, but he later signed up as a surgeon superintendent in charge of the immigrant ship 'The Light Brigade', subsequently visiting Brisbane in 1863 and settling in Queensland in 1866.
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329:Ørsted-Jensen: Robert: The Right To Live – The Politics of Race and the Troubled Conscience of an Australian Journalist, Chapter ten 'The Figaro and a Struggle Against Silence' (yet unpublished manuscript)
48:'Bobby' Byrne arrived in Sydney as an immigrant aboard the 'Merrie England' on 31 May 1863. He is reported at Rockhampton as early as 1864, where he joined the literary staff of A. L. Bourcicault's
96:, Byrne died at St Helen's Hospital, Brisbane, on 16 November 1906, a victim of acute neuralgia. He was buried the following day at Toowong Cemetery (portion 5, section 49, grave 15).
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Theodore Edgar Dickson Byrne, First Doctor in Gympie, 1867-1872 and 1874, Gympie Regional Libraries, n.d. (ca. 2016), pp. 20–24.
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