Trivia for you did you know who I am?

I was born in Ireland in 1863 and migrated to Australia in 1884 for health reasons.

I had an unhappy marriage and returned to London in 1894 and worked as a journalist.

In 1899 the 'times' sent me back to Australia to investigate reports of ill treatment of aborigines.

I began to work among them studying languages, legends, rites and kinship systems.

I lived with various groups in Western Australia and from 1919 to 1945

I lived in a tent at various settlements on the edge of the Nullarbor Plain,

And was a well-known figure to passengers on the transcontinental train

As I always dressed in Edwardian clothes.

I wrote hundreds of articles on Aboriginal problems, which led to some Government assistance,

And published the semi-autobiographical, book

'the passing of the Aborigine'

in 1938 -Can you tell me who I am?

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