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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2026-03-10 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001127b.htm person Beveridge Peter AACR2 24 June 1829 4 October 1885 Place of Birth Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland Place of Death Woodburn, Victoria, Australia Anthropologist Pastoralist Peter Beveridge established cattle and sheep stations on the Murray, where he stayed 1845-1868. He wrote many articles on the customs, dialects and myths of the Aboriginals of the Murray, Murrumbidgee and Darling areas.

Born Fife, Scotland, 24 June 1829. Died Kilmore, 4 October 1885. Arrived Port Phillip 1839; Established Tyntynder station, ten miles down the Murray from the site of Swan Hill, with his older brother Andrew 1845; took up Piangil, about fifteen miles beyond Tyntynder 1846; stayed on the stations until 1868. Read a paper on aboriginal ovens to the London Anthropological Society 1869. Wrote "The Aborigines of Victoria and Riverina as Seen by Peter Beveridge" (1889).

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 'Beveridge, Peter', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Beveridge, Peter Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: The Aborigines of Victoria and Riverina Beveridge, Peter The Aborigines of Victoria and Riverina Melbourne H. L. Hutchison 1889 Book Section: Beveridge, Peter (1829-1885), squatter and author Hone, J. Ann Beveridge, Peter (1829-1885), squatter and author Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1969 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 3: 1851 - 1890 A-C Douglas Pike 161-162 Journal Article: From the paddock to the page: squatter Peter Beveridge's ethnological writing about the Wadi Wadi in colonial Victoria Lourie, Amanda From the paddock to the page: squatter Peter Beveridge's ethnological writing about the Wadi Wadi in colonial Victoria 2016 Oceania 86 3 244-61 Resource: Science and the making of Victoria Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre Science and the making of Victoria 2001 Peter Beveridge - Records State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection Peter Beveridge - Records 1850 - 1885 Articles c1850-85 on the customs, dialects and mythology of the Victorian Aborigines including the manuscript of 'The Aborigines of Victoria' and several Aboriginal legends along with seven notebooks and some newspaper cuttings and a manuscript entitled 'John Fairfield, the Overlander; An Australian Story'.