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Agency:
Theodore William Davenport
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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.