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Charles Frederick (Fred) Maynard (1879-1946), Aboriginal activist, was born on 4 July 1879 at Hinton, New South Wales, third child of William Maynard, an English-born labourer, and his wife Mary, née Phillips. Her mother, also Mary, was a Worimi woman from the Port Stephens area who had married Jean Phillipe (anglicised as Phillips), an emigrant from the Isle of France (Mauritius). After Mary Maynard’s death in childbirth in 1884, the Maynard children were separated. Fred and his brother Arthur were placed with a Protestant minister at Dungog. He read voraciously, and worked as a bullock-driver, drover, miner, and timber-getter and operated a nursery in Sydney for a time.

By 1911 Maynard had become a wharf labourer in Sydney and an active member of the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia. He spent much time at the Domain and other public-speaking venues. In the early 1920s he united with his countrymen from the Hunter to make a public protest against the assault on Aboriginal rights; they spoke at local meetings and lobbied the Sydney and