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I was born at Muswellbrook, New South Wales, in 1861. On the death of my father while I was only a few months old, my mother with her two children returned to her mother's house in Scone, which was then my home for the rest of my childhood. In … or thereabouts she took me to Sydney to school, and I became a pupil at Fort Street, then under the headmastership of Mr. Frederick Bridges, where I stayed till I was …
I came to Sydney again about 1878 & became a Clerk in the newly established Copyright department. In the meantime I had amused myself by learning shorthand, which attracted me originally as a form of cryptography. The Copyright legislation
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