Steele Rudd

Arthur Hoey Davis was born on 14 November 1868 at Drayton, near Toowoomba, in Queensland, the son of a Welsh blacksmith turned settler and an Irish mother. A civil servant in Brisbane, he moved in 1889 to the office of the sheriff of the Supreme Court, where he became deputy. He first signed rowing columns Steele Rudder, a name he later shortened. He launched a magazine in his own name, which did not last, settled in 1909 on a farm at Nobby, according to the Australian Dictionary of Biography, and died in Brisbane on 11 October 1935.

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• Short storiesOn Our SelectionSteele Rudd · 1899LiteraturePublic domain