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73:, of which he was elected president in 1906. Around 1895 he went into partnership with Davenport and Smith, stockbrokers, who had an office in the Bank of Australasia Chambers, and subsequently opened an office in London for Alfred Davenport (1861â1919), who was a nephew of Sir
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