Hampden studied agricultural science in Germany from around 1822 to 1824, specialising in wool classing and sheep breeding.
He was appointed Magistrate at Yass in 1834, Justice of the Peace in Sydney..[citation needed] On 26 December 1838, Hampden, his wife Charlotte, and three children arrived in South Australia from Sydney aboard the ship Parland, which also carried for him a full cargo of 1,500 sheep and a number of horses.
John Finnis, who were by then the three partners, organised three overland sheep drives from Sydney to Adelaide over the next few years.
He was consul or vice-consul at Sydney for Hanse Towns from 1840 to 1842,[5] then was declared insolvent, and his business affairs were put in the hands of his brother Frederick, who paid out all creditors in full.
[1] His eldest son William Broughton Dutton died in North Adelaide in 1863; his widow sold by auction some 64 blocks in the township of Mount Barker in 1866,[7] and the family either returned to, or had remained in South Australia, later living at Strangways Terrace, North Adelaide..[citation needed] Both Hampden Road and Dutton Place in Mount Barker are named after him.