Boldrewood, Rolf, 1826-1915

T. A. Browne wrote under the pseudonym of Rolf Boldrewood.

Boldrewood was an Australian author. Thomas Alexander Browne was his pseudonym.

Thomas Alexander Browne was born in England on 6 August 1826. He was later sent to boarding school in Australia and in 1843, though only 17 years old, took up land near Port Fairy. In 1871 he became a police magistrate and goldfields commissioner, holding these positions for about 25 years. In 1884 Old Melbourne Memories, a book of reminiscences of the eighteen-forties was published at Melbourne, "by Rolf Boldrewood, author of My Run Home, The Squatter's Dream and Robbery Under Arms". Other novels appeared in quick succession, including The Miner's Right, and A Colonial Reformer in 1890, A Sydney Side Saxon (1891), Nevermore (1892), A Modern Buccaneer (1894), The Sphinx of Eaglehawk (1895), The Crooked Stick (1895), The Sealskin Coat (1896), My Run Home (1897), Plain Living (1898), A Romance of Canvas Town (1898), War to the Knife (1899), Babes in the Bush (1900), In Bad Company and Other Stories (1901), The Ghost Camp (1902), The Last Chance (1905). Browne lived near Melbourne from the time of his retirement in 1895 until his death on 11 March 1915.

Rolf Boldrewood was the pen-name of Thomas Alexander Browne.

Thomas Alexander Browne (1826-1915), who used the pseudonym 'Rolf Boldrewood' was a police magistrate in various towns in Victoria and New South Wales between 1871 and 1895. He wrote many novels, the most famous being Robbery under arms (1888), and an autobiographical volume, Old Melbourne memories.