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Percival Serle (
18 July 1871 –
16 December 1951) was an
Australian biographer and
bibliographer.
Serle was born in
Victoria and for many years worked in a life assurance office before becoming chief clerk and accountant at the
University of Melbourne. He married artist
Dora Beatrice Hake.
He ran a second-hand bookshop during the depression; was guide-lecturer at the
National Gallery of Victoria; curator of the Art Museum of the Gallery; and member of the council of the
Victorian Artists Society. He was also president of the
Australian Literature Society.
Serle's publications included an edition, with notes, of
A Song to David and Other Poems by the eighteenth century English poet,
Christopher Smart;
A Bibliography of Australasian Poetry and Verse: Australia and New Zealand;
An Australasian Anthology (with '
Furnley Maurice' and R H Croll);
Dictionary of Australian Biography; and
A Primer of Collecting.
The Dictionary took more than twenty years to complete and contains more than one thousand biographies of prominent Australians or persons closely connected with Australia. Serle comments in the Preface that "I have endeavoured to make the book worthy of its subject. It would have been better could I've spent another five years on it, but at seventy-five years of age one realizes there's a time to make an end."
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