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Australian politician
Robert Davidson
(4 September 1856 – 5 August 1931) was an Australian politician.
He was born in
Mauchline
in
Ayrshire
to fancy box manufacturer John Davidson and Mary Dalrymple. He attended the
University of Glasgow
and studied at the
Free Church College
. Arriving in
Sydney
in 1883, he married Jeanie Logan Muir on 31 August that year; they would have seven children. In 1884 he was ordained a minister in the
Free Church of Scotland
and given responsibility for
Port Macquarie
Parish, which he retained until his retirement in 1893 when he became proprietor of the
Port Macquarie News
. In 1901 he was elected to the
New South Wales Legislative Assembly
as the
Liberal
member for
Hastings and Macleay
, serving until his retirement in 1910. He retired to
Kiama
, where he was buried after his death in
Forbes
in 1931.
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