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Edmund James Banfield ("Ted") was born at Liverpool, England on the 4 September, 1852, (died 5 June 1923 at Dunk Island) and was brought while a boy to Australia by his father, who settled at Ararat, Victoria. Banfield worked on various newspapers in the three eastern colonies, and in 1882 went to northern Queensland, where he joined the staff of the " Townsville Daily Bulletin."Banfield was married in Townsville in 1886.
Weary with the pressure of newspaper work under an alcoholic boss, Banfield and his wife moved to Dunk Island in 1897. They lived there for the next 25 years, during which time Banfield wrote newspaper articles and "The Confessions of a Beachcomber."
