Archibald Meston [SEP] place of birth
Archibald Meston
Archibald Meston (26 March 1851 – 11 March 1924) was an Australian politician, civil servant, journalist, naturalist and explorer.
Personal life.
Archibald Meston was born at Towie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, the son of Alexander Meston.
Meston migrated with his parents to Sydney in 1859, his family subsequently taking up farming at Ulmarra, New South Wales on the Clarence River.
Meston married Margaret Frances Prowse Shaw in Sydney on 22 August 1871.
After a long and varied career,
of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1924 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
- 11 March – Archibald Meston, journalist and explorer (born 1851)
See also.
- 1924 in poetry
- List of years in literature
- List of years in Australian literature