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Sir Samuel Davenport [B 5575] • Photograph

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Summary

[General description] Portrait of Sir Samuel Davenport seated, wearing his K.C.M.G. regalia. A patrician figure, he wears his grey hair and beard trimmed. He arrived in Australia in the early 1840s and became a prominent figure in colonial South Australia. He was a prominent landowner, agriculturalist and later a parliamentarian. He was active in public life in the colony being elected to a number of positions in the agricultural, horticultural and geographical societies and was a keen grower of grapevines and olives at his property in Beaumont. He was knighted in 1884 and in 1886 appointed K.C.M.G. and given an honorary doctorate by the University of Cambridge.

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Physical description

Photograph; 15.7 cm x 11.3 cm

Dates / Publication details

Approximately 1894

Collection

Part of Portrait Collection

Subject

Davenport, Samuel, Sir, 1818-1906

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Digitisation information

Date

06/07/2005

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

2,270 x 3,200 pixels (7.3 MP)

Size

21.83 MB

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