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 ^28 ADELAIDE AND VICINITY Mr. Henry Button EX'ERV Australian colony has its aristocrats, who are also its large landed proprietors. But they are not drones in the hive, as they personally supervise the management of their estates. To this class belongs the subject of this notice. Henry Dutton comes of a well-known Australian family. He was born at Richmond, Victoria, in 1848, and is a grandson of a British Consul in Holland, and son of the late Mr. William Hampden Dutton, who was prominently connected with pastoral stations in New South W'ales. It is of im- portance to this memoir to record that Mr. W. H. Dutton induced his brother, Mr. V. II. Dutton, to come to Scnith Australia in 1841. He enabled him to engage in pastoral pursuits in the Province. Mr. F. H. Dutton went into partnership with the late Captain Bagot, and became possessed of the Koonunga Station at Kapunda. In the following year Mr. F. S. Dutton and Mr. C. S. Bagot (a son of Captain Bagot), while searching for some sheep on the property, found sam])les of copper ore, and the locality therefrom became? famous for the Kapunda Copper Mines. Mr. F. S, Dutton, who acquired considerable wealth from this discovery, was a man of un- doubted ability, and rose to the WaUry, Photo most influential offices in South Australia. He was poss(ss(d of a good commercial knowledge, gained chiefly in Brazil and Rio de Janeiro, and was proficient in languages. After leaving South America he joined his brother in New South Wales, and, as in the case of Mr. I'". H. Dutton, at his suggestion came to .South Australia in 1841. In 1849 he was appointed one of the Board of City Commissioners — the forerunner of the present Corporation of Adelaide — and was re-appointed in 1851. Mr. F. S. Dutton was for years a prominent legislator, and was Commissioner of Crown Lands in the Hanson Ministry of 1857. In 1863, and again in 1865, he was Premier of the Province. Upon his retirement he was appointed Agent-Cieneral in London, the X 1 ^ V^^^^^^V 1 1