Civil Servant began work at Exchequer and Audit Office in Somerset House in 1874; took up photography about 1885; became a member of the RPS and soon elected to its executive council; became deeply involved in the contemporary artistic debates about photography; George Davison was a noted pictorial photographer and a founder member of The Linked Ring in 1892. From 1897 he was assistant manager of the Eastman Photographic Materials Company, renamed in 1898, Kodak Limited. He became managing director in 1900.