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Nursery Rhymes : The Oily Man single work   poetry   satire   "'Twas an oily man - an oily man,"
Issue Details: First known date: 1856... 1856 Nursery Rhymes : The Oily Man
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Notes

  • It is not entirely clear, but the subject of this poem appears to have been New South Wales M.L.A. John Bayley Darvall (q.v.), who had been Solictor-General in the short-lived Donaldson cabinet of 1856.

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    y separately published work icon The Empire 2 September 1856 Z1729160 1856 newspaper issue 1856 pg. 5
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