Robert Davenport (Australian politician)

Robert Davenport (1816 – 3 September 1896) was a pioneer and politician in the early days of the Colony of South Australia.

[1] His family photograph album has been digitised by the State Library of South Australia and is available online.

[3] Most of the information about the Mount Barker district in Francis Dutton's book South Australia and Its Mines (1848) was provided to its author by Robert Davenport.

[4] Robert Davenport was on 9 July 1851 elected as member for the electoral district of Hindmarsh in the second South Australian Legislative Council.

[5] He resigned his seat on 29 June 1854,[5] his brother, Sir Samuel entering the Council again a few months later and remaining a member, even after the advent of constitutional government, until 30 August 1866.