painter and bedding manufacturer, was born at Henley-on-Thames in 1867. He came to Australia in 1885 and moved to Brisbane in 1886, where he worked as a house painter, seaman, partner in Lloyd, Austin & Tait (bedding manufacturers), founder Friendly Society & Hospital; Labor alderman for South Brisbane City Council; won Brisbane exhibition art award (!). Austin married Mary Etchells in Brisbane c.1894, then Emily Short in Brisbane c.1928. He died in Brisbane on 5 August 1945.
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- 1999
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- 2011