Philip Dearman Mennell FRGS, (10 March 1851 – 19 October 1905) was an English-born encyclopaedist, journalist and newspaper owner, active in Australia, author of the Dictionary of Australasian Biography (1892).
[1] Mennell was privately educated and published Lord John Manners, a Political Biography in 1872.
Mennell studied law, was admitted as a solicitor, but soon afterward migrated to Victoria, Australia.
The following year he published his Dictionary of Australasian Biography,[1] sub-titled Comprising Notices of Eminent Colonists From the Inauguration of Responsible Government Down to the Present Time,[2] which contained over 1500 entries.
[1] Mennell was also editor-proprietor of the British Australasian and New Zealand Mail from December 1892 until shortly before his death.