Agency:
Theodore William Davenport
Agency Number:
Start Date:
29 Jun 1907
End Date:
06 Jan 1996
Description:
Bill Davenport, was born in England. His parents were Charles and Helen Davenport. His father was a consulting engineer with the British Army in the Boxer Rebellion in China and then went straight from China to the Boer war for 4 years. He left the army and was married in 1904 in England. The family later went to live in Calcutta, where they stayed for some years. By 1934 the family were in Ulverstone where Charles built a house he had designed himself.;;;;By 1949 Bill his wife and three daughtes, Helen, Diane and Rosemary were living in Ulverstone were Bill is described as a factory manager in the school records for his daughters and in this it is recorded that the family had come from Victoria.;;;;Bill Davenport had a keen interest in the fluoridation of water and was an anti-fluoride campaigner and member of the Tasmanian Pure Water Association, the Anti-Fluoridation Society of Tasmania, and the Organic Gardening and Farming Society. He was the public relations officer of the Anti-Fluoridation Society of Tasmania from 1987 to 1993 and published many articles under his own name and under the Society's name. He wrote a book 'The Fluoridation Myth' under the auspices of the Anti-Fluoridation Society of Tasmania.
Related Agencies:
Anti-Fluoridation Association of Tasmania (NG1774) | 01 Jan 1982 |
Series Created By Agency:
NS3262 Subject Files | 01 Jan 1944 | 31 Dec 1995 |
NS3265 Reports by Scientists and Others | 01 Jan 1959 | 31 Dec 1990 |
NS1768 Architectural Drawings | 01 Jan 1960 | 31 Dec 1970 |
NS3264 Letters to Politicians | 01 Jan 1963 | 31 Dec 1994 |
NS3263 Letters to Newspapers and Press Releases | 01 Jan 1964 | 31 Dec 1993 |
NS3267 Royal Commission Into Fluoridation Submission | 01 Jan 1966 | 31 Dec 1968 |
NS3268 Radio and Tv Debates and Reports on Fluoridation | 01 Jan 1976 | 31 Dec 1996 |
NS3266 Articles and Research Notes | 01 Jan 1980 | 31 Dec 1980 |
NS3269 Australian Fluoridation News | 01 Jan 1985 | 31 Dec 1995 |
NS1774 Video of Fluoridation at S & J Braim's Property | 05 Jan 1990 | 05 Jan 1990 |