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On June 24, 1870, the British-Australian poet Adam Lindsay Gordon died in Melbourne. Gordon was also a police officer, politician, and a well regarded horseman. He was the first Australian poet to gain significant recognition abroad, and he is immortalised with a bust in Poets’ Corner, in London’s Westminster Abbey.

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