Francis Dutton

The Honourable Francis Dutton CMG
7th Premier of South Australia
In office 4 July 1863 – 15 July 1863
Monarch	Victoria
Governor	Sir Dominick Daly
Preceded by	George Waterhouse
Succeeded by	Sir Henry Ayers
Constituency	Light
In office 22 March 1865 – 20 September 1865
Monarch	Victoria
Governor	Sir Dominick Daly
Preceded by	Sir Arthur Blyth
Succeeded by	Sir Henry Ayers
Personal details
Born	1818 Cuxhaven, Lower Saxony
Died	25 January 1877 London, United Kingdom

Francis Stacker Dutton CMG (1818 – 25 January 1877) was the seventh Premier of South Australia, serving twice, firstly in 1863 and again in 1865.

Dutton was born at Cuxhaven, Germany, where his father was British vice-consul, in 1818. He was educated at Hofwyl College, near Bern in Switzerland, and afterwards at the high school at Bremen in Germany. At 17, he went to Brazil as a junior clerk and was there for about five years, in Bahia and Rio de Janeiro.

In 1839, he joined his older brothers Hampden, Pelham and Frederick in Sydney, went overland to Melbourne, and followed mercantile pursuits for about 18 months, He then joined his brother Frederick at Adelaide and in 1842 or early in 1843, discovered copper at Kapunda, 45 miles north of Adelaide. He showed the specimen he had found to Captain Charles Bagot, who produced a similar specimen that his son had found in the same locality. The land was purchased and samples were sent to England, which showed a high percentage of copper. Dutton visited England in 1845 and sold his interest in the mine for a large sum. While in London, he prepared for publication his South Australia and its Mines, a work of 360 pages, a valuable contemporary account of the new colony published in 1846.

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