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SIR EDWARD DAVSON DEAD EMPIRE PRODUCERS’ CHAIRMAN United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright LONDON, August 7. The death has occurred of Sir Edward Davson, chairman of the British Empire Producers’ Organisation. Sir Edward Davson was representative of the colonies and protectorates on the Imperial Economic Committee, a member of the Colonial Development Committee, a governor of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, a trustee’ of the Imperial Institute and vicechairman of Barclay’s Bank. He was educated at Eton. From 1916 to 1926 he was president of the Associated West Indian Chambers of Commerce, and from 1925 to 1928 was chairman of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire. From 1926 to 1933 he was a member of the Empire Marketing Board, and at the Ottawa Conference in 1932 and the London Economic Conferen'e In 1933 he was Government Adviser on Colonial Trade.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20803, 11 August 1937, Page 9
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