James Arndell Youl
1811–1904
Australian agriculturalist and magistrate. Farmed in Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania), 1827–54. Lived in London from 1854; honorary agent for Tasmania, 1861–3, and honorary secretary and treasurer of the Australia Association. Co-founder of the Colonial Society, 1868. Discovered a means of transporting live fish ova from Britain to Tasmania, Australia, and New Zealand. Knighted, 1891.
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ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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