Boldrewood

Boldrewood, ROLF, is the pseudonym of Thomas Alexander Browne, author of Robbery Under Arms (1888), A Modern Buccaneer (1894), and other tales of adventure in Australia. Born in England in 1827, he was taken to Australia in 1830 by his father, Captain Sylvester John Browne, one of the founders of Melbourne; and there, after a good education and a varied experience in stock-farming and other vocations, he became a police magistrate and goldfields commissioner. He contributed to the Cornhill Magazine in 1865, and has written in other serials.