Surname: Davidson Forename(s): John William b. 26 August 1862. d. 1937. Nationality: English.
Poet, interpreter, and Colonial Office clerk. Born in Calcutta, India, and died in
New Zealand. Alternative signature: “J. W. Davidson.” Married Alice Switzer on 26
August 1891. Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for Davidson’s “A Song of Fiji,” published on 19 October 1901, lists
the author as J. W. Davidson, of Suva, Fiji (NLS Dep 341/371). Davidson is listed
as a Fiji Colonial Office immigration clerk in the The Colonial Office List for 1912 to 1918, when he retired. Biographical information: Ancestry. (AC, CC)