Captain John Joseph 'Mangrove' Murphy, patrol officer, prisoner of war and amateur linguist, was born in Queensland in 1914. He was educated at Christian Brothers' College, Maryborough, St Joseph's College, Nudgee and the University of Queensland (although he did not take a degree). He moved to New Guinea in ca.1936 and became a patrol officer, compiling a dictionary of Pidgin English which was published in 1942. He joined the Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit and the Allied Intelligence Bureau during the Second World War and was captured in 1943. He was the only Australian among the seven survivors of the Rabaul prisoner of war camp and was tried at court-martial for treason thanks to suspected collaboration with the Japanese: he was honourably acquitted of all charges. Murphy worked as a colonial administrator after the war in the Western and Gulf districts of PNG and returned to Australia in 1969.

Edward Fitgerald Armitage, also known as "Ned", was born in Dublin on 9 June 1847. He came with his family to Australia in 1852, arriving in Melbourne. Moved to Queensland in 1861 and settled in Maryborough. Worked as a farm hand, timber getter, musterer, mail carrier, was admitted to the Wide Bay tribe as class 'Bunda', worked in the timber trade, as a government works contractor, and was a boxer. He died on 21 November 1943.

New South Wales' Forestry Commission was constituted in November 1916, replacing the Forestry Department. In 1993 the Commission changed its name to State Forests of New South Wales.

The Royal Queensland Art Society had its inaugural meeting in September 1887 and received the Royal Warrant in 1927. Many of Queensland's leading artists have been associated with the Society. It has a gallery and studio in Brisbane and holds workshops, seminars, life classes and exhibitions. Branches of the RQAS are situated in Brisbane, Rockhampton and the Gold Coast.

Peter Newell was an Australian architect and architectural critic with a special interest in domestic architecture. He as born in Melbourne and graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Melbourne. During World War II he served with the Australian Army Engineers. In 1945 he married Betty Thelander. Moving to Queensland after the war, Newell worked for Addison and McDonald for a short period. He then worked for Chambers and Ford, which became Ford, Hutton and Newell in 1951. The partnership existed between 1951-1975. In the 1960s Newell lectured at the University of Queensland and took a Masters in Architecture degree from this University in 1988. He has been credited with influencing the modernist movement and the design of modernist homes in Queensland. He died on 21 May 2010 in Brisbane.

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Playwright, author, poet, director.

Rodney 'Rod' Munro Fisher (1942-2017) was born in Melbourne to Enid and Lance Fisher. He attended the University of Melbourne, graduating BA in 1962 and DipEd in 1963. From 1964 to 1969 he taught history and physical education in secondary schools in Victoria and in Alberta, Canada. After completing postgraduate studies and a Master's thesis on the Elizabethan theologian William Perkins at the University of Saskatchewan in 1970, Fisher went to Cambridge where he was supervised by Sir Geoffrey Elton in his doctoral dissertation The Inns of Court and the Reformation 1530-1580. In 1974 Fisher commenced teaching Tudor and Stuart history at the University of Queensland. From about 1980 Fisher began to immerse himself in local history and started offering subjects in interdisciplinary, community and applied history. Fisher put his ideas into practice by restoring a shop-house in Wellington Street, Petrie Terrace and by organising walking tours of the suburbs of Brisbane. In 1981 he co-founded the Brisbane History Group with Helen Gregory and in 1988 began to lobby for a professional association to represent historians. This resulted in the formation of the Brisbane Historians Institute, now the Professional Historians Association (Queensland). In 1991 he established the UQ Applied History Centre. After retiring from the University in 2001, Fisher became an independent historian and consultant. He published works on Silvester Diggles, Diggles Down Under (2003), as well as Boosting Brisbane (2009), Signs of Separation (2009) and a trilogy of books The Best of Colonial Brisbane (2012), Bygone Brisbane (2016) and Queenslanders: Their Historic Timbered Homes (2016). In 2011 Fisher moved to Brazil. He died on 28 June 2017.