Item F1753 - Provenance note regarding family ownership of Shakespearian Dictionary (1832), donated to Fryer Library

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F1753

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Provenance note regarding family ownership of Shakespearian Dictionary (1832), donated to Fryer Library

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  • 1973 (Creation)

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1 leaf ; 26 cm.

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Name of creator

(1935-2016)

Biographical history

John Gladstone Steele, B.Sc, PhD., ThL., A.A.I.P., A.S.I.A., was a priest of the Anglican Church and a physicist at the University of Queensland, serving as Senior Lecturer in the Physics Department from 1968 until 1995. The combination of his interests in bushwalking, botany, and the Australian aborigines enabled him to retrace the patterns of exploration and history in south-east Queensland and have resulted in a number of publications.

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Previously title: Biographical note about members of his family

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Handwritten note, signed J. G. Steele, Department of Physics, 8 October 1973. The note describes the previous ownership throughout the family of the book, which includes the description of some members of his family, Edward McRoberts, Mary Louisa Ann Peterson, and Daniel Peterson.

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Unrestricted access.

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  • English

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Note

Handwritten note, signed J. G. Steele, Department of Physics, 8 October 1973.

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991008338439703131

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Revised

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Revised, 6 April 2023, SJB.
Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.

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