David Alfred Andrade and his brother Will had an early association with secularism, free-thinking and anarchism in Melbourne. They helped to form the Melbourne Anarchist's Club in 1886.
David Andrade was an organiser, speaker and writer in the interest of Proudhonist anarchism, or individual emancipation. He wrote a utopian novel, The Melbourne Riots and How Harry Holdfast and His Friends Emancipated the Workers, published in 1892. David Andrade was also a bookseller and printer, at North Brunswick, and at his 'Liberty Hall' in Russell Street, Melbourne.
