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David Syme
Scottish-Australian newspaper proprietor / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other people named David Syme, see David Syme (disambiguation).
David Syme (2 October 1827 – 14 February 1908) was a Scottish-Australian newspaper proprietor of The Age and regarded as "the father of protection in Australia" who had immense influence in the Government of Victoria.[1] His first biographer, Ambrose Pratt, declared Syme "could hate as few men can [and] loved power as few men ever loved it".[2]
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