DAVIDSON, JOHN EWEN (1841-1923), sugar-planter and miller, was born on 2 March 1841 in London, son of Henry Davidson, merchant and cadet of the Davidsons of Tulloch Castle, Dingwall, Scotland, and his wife Caroline, née Blake. Educated at Harrow and Oxford (B.A., 1862), he visited the West Indies and British Guiana before coming to Australia in 1865. He began as a sugar-planter at Rockingham Bay near Cardwell, Queensland, in 1866; but after his partner's withdrawal and floods in December, he joined T. H. Fitzgerald at Mackay next year in a sugar and cotton plantation called Alexandria, which was soon devoted to sugar. Building the first iron mill in the district in 1868, they proved sugar commercially viable but, through Davidson's intense conservatism, did not introduce the important vacuum pan process for many years.
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