William Henry Ogilvie
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William Henry Ogilvie was a Scottish-Australian narrative poet and horseman, jackaroo, and drover, and described as a quiet-spoken handsome Scot of medium height, with a fair moustache and red complex
Ogilvie, circa 1937
Holefield Farm, Lempitlaw, Kelso, beside the B6396
Will H. Ogilvie, believed circa 1890, aged about 20. Bearing subject's signature
Will H. Ogilvie, circa 1901, aged about 30
The Bulletin was an Australian weekly magazine based in Sydney and first published in 1880. It featured politics, business, poetry, fiction and humour, alongside cartoons and other illustrations.
William Henry Ogilvie
…from Australian newspapers of the preceding five years, a selection of poems within the book entitled Fair girls and gray horses was published by The Bulletin in November 1898 and was well received as 'the most charming book of Australian verse that has yet appeared'. The book was reprinted four times by 1901…
Front cover of the 22 February 1890 edition
J. F. Archibald and John Haynes, imprisoned in Darlinghurst Gaol in 1882 for not paying the costs in the Clontarf libel case
Henry Lawson
Mary Gilmore