Rolf Boldrewood (1826-1915) was an Australian novelist and poet. He was born Thomas Alexander Browne in Sydney, Australia, and was educated at Sydney Grammar School. He was a police magistrate in New South Wales and Victoria, and was also a squatter and a gold miner. Boldrewood is best known for his novel Robbery Under Arms (1888), which was adapted into a film in 1920. He also wrote several other novels, including A Sydney-Side Saxon (1883), A Colonial Reformer (1890), and The Miner's Right (1891). His poetry collections include The Poems of Rolf Boldrewood (1890) and The Songs of the Sentimental Bloke (1915). Boldrewood was a member of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Sydney in 1908. He died in 1915 in Melbourne, Australia.
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