| Hampden Dutton | |
| Birth Name: | William Hampden Dutton |
| Birth Date: | c. 29 October 1807 |
| Birth Place: | Colne, Lancashire, England |
| Death Place: | Melbourne, Colony of New South Wales[1] |
| Parents: | Frederick Hugh Hampden Dutton (formerly Mendes) and Mary Ann (née Norris) |
| Spouse: | Charlotte da Silva Cameron (1813–1885) |
| Children: | Mary Anne Elizabeth Taylor (1832–), Luduvina Charlotte Jane Moore (1833–1868), Mary Broughton Rebecca Emma Dutton (ca. 1837–1896), William Broughton Dutton (1838–1863), Charles George Cameron Dutton (1842–1887), Henry Dutton (1844–1914), Zelie Adele Dutton (1846–1909), Ewin Cameron Dutton (1848–1864) |
| Occupation: | pastoralist in New South Wales and South Australia |
| Relations: | Frederick Hansborough Dutton (brother), Robert Waters Moore (son-in-law), Henry Hampden Dutton (grandson), Geoffrey Piers Henry Dutton (great-grandson), Charles Cameron (father-in-law), John Finnis (Charlotte's step-father) |
William Hampden Dutton (29 October 1807 – 21 November 1849), generally known as Hampden Dutton, was a pioneering pastoralist in New South Wales and South Australia.
Hampden was the eldest child of Frederick Hugh Hampden Dutton[2] and his wife Mary Ann Dutton, née Norris. His father, whose surname was originally Mendes, was from 1814 to 1832 British consul at Cuxhaven, Hanover. Hampden studied agricultural science in Germany from around 1822 to 1824, specialising in wool classing and sheep breeding.
He was employed by the Australian Agricultural Company in 1825 to select a flock and arrived in Sydney on 22 March 1826 with a selection of around 240 sheep, though many were in poor condition and so many died subsequently that Hampden's contract was terminated. He returned to England in 1827.
In 1830 Hampden and his brother Frederick Hansborough Dutton returned to Sydney. Frederick moved to Mullengandra near Albury (and later famously took up 70000acres in South Australia which he called Anlaby), while Hampden had extensive properties in Monaro region of New South Wales (then generally spelled "Manaro"). He was appointed Magistrate at Yass in 1834, Justice of the Peace in Sydney..
On 26 December 1838, Hampden, his wife Charlotte, and three children arrived in South Australia from Sydney aboard the ship Parland, which also carried for him a full cargo of 1,500 sheep and a number of horses.[3] He was in 1839, with fellow Sydney pastoralists Moore and Duncan Macfarlane, granted a selection of 4000acres from South Australia's first "Special Survey" of 15000acres of land in South Australia, near Mount Barker (part being J. B. Hack's station);[4] He shortly returned to Sydney. He, Macfarlane, and Capt. John Finnis, who were by then the three partners, organised three overland sheep drives from Sydney to Adelaide over the next few years.
He was consul or vice-consul at Sydney for Hanse Towns from 1840 to 1842,[5] then was declared insolvent, and his business affairs were put in the hands of his brother Frederick, who paid out all creditors in full.[6]
He died four years later in Melbourne, Victoria.[1] His eldest son William Broughton Dutton died in North Adelaide in 1863; his widow sold by auction some 64 blocks in the township of Mount Barker in 1866,[7] and the family either returned to, or had remained in South Australia, later living at Strangways Terrace, North Adelaide..
Both Hampden Road and Dutton Place in Mount Barker are named after him.[8]
William Hampden Dutton married Charlotte da Silva Cameron (1813 – 11 May 1885) on 2 July 1831. Charlotte was a daughter of Charles Cameron and stepdaughter of Captain John Finnis (1802–1872). Their children included: