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Herbert Nathaniel Davis

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After briefly setting up business in 1892 in the Swan Chambers building in Hay Street in the Perth CBD, Davis moved to Fremantle where he was to have a successful career, albeit one that lasted little more than a decade. In 1896, he entered into a partnership with G. Anketell Wilson and they operated
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Davis married Miriam Louise "May" Levine in August 1894 and, a little over a year later, their daughter, Gladys Elizabeth "Poppy", was born in Fremantle. After Davis' death, May and Poppy were both nurses at St. Omer's Hospital in Perth before Poppy moved to Melbourne and became engaged to
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before returning to their original location a year later. Five years before the fire, the business had also briefly been declared insolvent and was unable to reopen until 1863.
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Refurbishment of a private residence into the Esplanade Hotel, Marine Terrace. (Interior only; the exterior was redesigned by J. Herbert Eales in 1903).
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Not much is known of Davis' education, but by the age of 21 he was a member of the Hebrew Literary and Debating Society, debating at the
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In December 1865, a fire destroyed a great deal of the shop's stock — more than they were insured for. They relocated briefly to
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Davis' mother died in 1888, when Davis was 19, and his father died in 1908 at his son Edward's home after returning to London.
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raised Herbert and his elder brother Edward Davis, and suffered a number of miscarriages between the births of the two boys.
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Davis and Wilson out of a building on Cliff Street in Fremantle. For a time, he also operated out of the
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responsible for designing a number of the extant heritage buildings in
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1896: The Lilly Building, 34-36 Cliff Street (next door to the above).
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Between Duty and Design: The Architect-soldier Sir J.J. Talbot Hobbs
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He died at the age of 32, and was interred in the Jewish section of
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In addition to a number of villas and cottages in places such as
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in central Sydney. His mother Frances (Fanny) Matilda Lazarus of
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architect
Fremantle, Western Australia
Fremantle Cemetery
Sydney
Exeter
shop
King Street
London
George Street
Great Synagogue
Bombay
public trustee
Cottesloe Beach
Beach Street
McDonald Smith Building
Union Stores Building
High
Henry Streets
Bateman Hardware
Tolley & Company Warehouse
Pakenham Street
Rialto Chambers







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