John Davies (publisher)
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John Davies (publisher)
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John Davies co-founded the Australian newspaper The Mercury. Davies was a Jew born in London, England. He was transported to Hobart, Australia as a convict in August 1831, for ordering candles on someone else's account. His father had been transported to New South Wales only a few years before. On 5 July 1854 he and Auber George Jones, a Tasmanian pastoralist, published the first edition of The Mercury. In 1871 Davies passed the management of The Mercury to his sons. In June 1872 he opened up th
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