Biographical

Arthur Hoey Davis (Steele Rudd) (1868 - 1935)

Arthur Hoey Davis was chairman of Greenmount Shire Council from 1914 to 1915.

Arthur was well known for writing the Dad and Dave stories. He was raised on a farm near Emu Creek (south of Toowoomba). He left school at the age of 12 and starting working on properties in the area. In 1885 he moved to Brisbane where is began writing his comic stories and his stories were published in the Sydney Bulletin from 1895. The stories were collected in On Our Selection (1899) with assistance from A.G. Stephen Davis. These stories came to be known as Dad and Dave. He published more than 20 works of fiction and 6 plays. He then moved to Sydney to persue his writing career due to financial pressures he returned to a property on the Darling Downs. He died in Brisbane on 11 October 1935.