John Ewen Davidson
John Ewen Davidson (2 March 1841 in London – 2 September 1923 in Oxford) was a colonist sugar planter, slave owner, murderer, and miller in Queensland. Life and career John Ewen Davidson was born as the son of a Scottish merchant. He was educated Harrow School and Oxford, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1862. He was also a member of the Marylebone Cricket Club in London and played one first class cricket match in 1864. After a trip to the West Indies and British Guiana he came to Australia in 1865. There he met pioneer Queensland sugar planter Captain Claudius Whish and visited his farm at Caboolture, where he was shown, how to grow sugar in the climatic conditions of Queensland.Glen Hall:Pioneer Shire Chairmen: John Ewen Davidson, 1880–1883, 1896–1899./ref> Bellenden Plains A year later, he began as a sugar planter at Bellenden Plains on the Murray River north of Cardwell in Far North Queensland. According to his own diary entries, Davidson was inv ...
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