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Gisborne, William 1825-1898, politician, public servant, and author, succeeded Sinclair as Under Secretary in the Colonial Secretary’s office in Wellington.Gladstone, William 1809-1898, British Liberal statesman and Prime Minister. Gow, Peter, proprietor of the Tavistock Hotel in Waipukurau, and a member of the Hawke’s Bay Philosophical Society in the 1880s: Colenso stayed at “Gow’s Hotel, Te Waipukurau”. Gray, Asa 1810-1888, the most important American botanist of the 19th century; Hooker’s letters to Gray have recently been purchased by Kew. Greville, Robert Kaye 1794-1866, Scottish botanist, entomologist and social reformer. Grey, Sir George 1812-1898, colonial governor and politician. Grogan, Rev. Father, Roman Catholic priest, came to Napier from Hawera in 1884. Gunn, Ronald Campbell 1808-1881, Tasmanian botanist, general scientist and editor, to whom Hooker dedicated Flora Tasmaniæ. Guthrie, Ann; wife of Thomas Guthrie, who had a sheep run around Castlepoint in 1848. Haast, Sir Julius von 1822-1887, geologist and explorer, prolific polymath. Hadfield, Octavius 1814-1904, missionary; came to Waimate, then to Otaki and Waikanae; later Bishop of Wellington and Primate of New Zealand. Hamilton, Augustus: see “collectors” (below), a beneficiary in Colenso’s will. Hamlin, James 1803-1865, co-founded the Waimate mission station in 1830, later establishing the mission at Wairoa, Poverty Bay. Harding, Robert Coupland, editor of Typo, close friend of Colenso, inherited Colenso’s printing materials, son of TB Harding, printer and typographic reformer. Harding, Thomas Bennick, bought the Hawke’s Bay Times in Napier in 1865. Hardy, SW: see “collectors” (below). Harvey, William Henry: Phycol. Brit., 1846; Nereis Australis: Algæ of the Southern Ocean, 1847; Phycol. Austral., 1863. Hassal, Arthur Hill 1817-1894: History of the British Freshwater Algæ, including descriptions of the Desmideae and Diatomaciae, 1852. Hawksworth, John 1715-1773, official writer of Cooks first voyage: Account of the Voyages... in the Southern Hemisphere, 1773. Heaphy, Charles 1820-1881, artist and explorer in NZ. Heaton, Sir John Henniker 1848-1914, UK MP, postal reformer, journalist in Australia, owned the original of Banks’ Endeavour Journal in the 1890s. Hector, James 1834-1907, geologist and explorer, first Director of the Colonial Museum and Geological Survey (Te Papa’s predecessor), held that position for 40 years. Hedwig, Johann 1730-1799, German botanist, moss specialist. Heke, Hone ?1810-1850, Ngapuhi chief; Heke’s pa Puketutu near Lake Omapere was sometimes referred to as Te Mawhe. Henslowe, Francis Hartwell 1811-1878, succeeded R. Gunn as Private Secretary to Sir John Franklin, Hobart. von Herkommer, Sir Hubert 1849-1914, German-born Victorian artist who painted many of Britain’s most famous persons. Heward, Robert 1791-1877, friend and biographer of Allan Cunningham, and inheritor of Cunningham’s herbarium, part of which went to Kew in 1862. Hill, Henry Thomas: see “collectors” (below), a beneficiary in Colenso’s will. Hill, Canon S, Clive October 1898 Hobson, William 1793-1842, second Governor of New Zealand. Hocken, Thomas Morland 1836-1910, physician and collector. Holder, James H, listed as “Chemist, Woodville” in 1898-1899 Post Office Directory. Hombron, Jacques Bernard 1798-1852, French surgeon and naturalist with d’Urville and the L’Astrolabe and La Zelee. Hooker, Lady Hyacinth E: after the death of his wife Frances in 1874 JD Hooker married Hyacinth, daughter of Rev. WS Symonds and widow of Sir William Jardine: they had two sons. Lady Hyacinth indexed the Kew correspondence. Howes, Prof George Bond 1853-1905, succeeded Thomas Henry Huxley at the Royal College of Science: Fish in relation to their surroundings, 1894. Howlett, WF: see “collectors” (below). Hugel, Baron Friedrich von 1852-1925, religious philosopher, concerned with the relationship between scientific truth and Christianity. Hutton, Prof Frederick Wollaston 1836-1905, an able and prolific NZ naturalist. Huxley, Thomas Henry 1825-1895, strong advocate of Darwinism. Demonstrated that man is an ape (in rebuttal of Richard Owen’s stance) by showing all apes have a hippocampus. Illiger, Johann Karl Wilhelm 1775-1813, German entomologist and zoologist. Jackson, Benjamin Daydon 1846-1927, British botanist, botanical secretary Linnaean Society 1880-1902. Jackson, W, composer: Te Deum in F, 1872. Jacquinot, Honoré 1815-1887, French surgeon and zoologist, who was Dumont d’Urville’s naturalist on La Zelee. Janson, Joseph, was a FLS in 1840; Edward Westley Janson 1822-1891 was a publisher and entomologist. Jardine, Sir William 1800-1874, Scottish naturalist, edited The Naturalists Library (including several volumes on entomology), 1833-1843. Jeens, Charles Henry 1827-1879, English engraver of portraits. Jervois, Lieutenant-General Sir William Francis Drummond 1821-1897, military engineer, Colonel-Commandant of the Royal Engineers, twelfth Governor of New Zealand Johnston, George: A history of the British zoophytes, 1847. Jolliffe, John: surgeon on HMS Pandora during its surveys of the NZ coast. le Jolis, Auguste François 1823-1904, plant collector. Jowett, Benjamin 1817-1893, English liberal theologian, tried for heresy. Kaiwhata, Paora (Paul) principal and influential midnineteenth century chief of Ngati Hinepare of Ngatikahungunu. Kelvin, Lord: William Thomson 1st Baron Kelvin 1824-1907, British mathematical physicist, religious fundamentalist who argued with Huxley and Tyndall. Kemp, HT: Civil Commissioner, Native Secretary of New Munster, bought land in Wairarapa. Associated with Captain Smith and FD Bell. King, Captain Philip Parker RN 1791-1856, Australian-born seaman and naturalist, friend of Cunningham, who put Colenso in touch with WJ Hooker. Kippist, Richard 1812-1882; botanist and librarian Linnaean Society, London. Kirk, Thomas 1828-1898, NZ botanist, naturalist, teacher. Kissling, Ven Georg Albert 1805-1865, German-born CMS missionary to Sierra Leone and later Kawakawa (Te Araroa, Hicks Bay), then first vicar of Parnell. Knight, Dr Charles 1808-1891, colonial administrator under Sir George Grey, later Auditor-General. He was also a dedicated botanist with a special interest in lichens and mosses. von Kotzebue, Otto 1787-1846, Russian naval explorer, three times circumnavigated the world, discovered 400 Pacific islands. von Krusenstern, Adam Johann Ritter 1770-1846, German explorer in Russian service, circumnavigated the world. Kunth, Karl Sigismund 1788-1850, German botanist. Lascelles, Arthur W: see “collectors” (below). Lecky, William Edward Hartpole 1838-1903, atheist: The Rise and the Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe, 1904. “There is no wild beast so ferocious as Christians who differ concerning their faith.” Leighton, Rev. William Allport 1805-1889: The British species of angiocarpous lichens, elucidated by their sporidia, 1881. Linden, Jean Jules 1817-1898, Belgian botanist & explorer, horticulturalist & businessman. Lindley, John 1799-1865, first Professor of Botany at the University of London, prolific botanical writer. Locke, Samuel: see “collectors” (below). Long, Rev M, 1885. Lowe, Edward Joseph 1825-1900, British botanist and botanical artist: Ferns, British & Exotic, 1856. Lubbock, Dr Montagu 1842-1925, physician, wrote a paper on the development of the colour sense. Lyall, David 1817-1895 surgeon-naturalist on the Terror and later the Acheron, surveying NZ waters. Lyell, Charles 1797-1975: Principles of geology, 1830-1832. McCormick, Robert 1800-1890, surgeon, explorer, naturalist on the Beagle and later with Ross’s Erebus and Terror, when JD Hooker worked with him. Mclean, Sir Donald 1840-1877, Land Purchase Commissioner and Native Minister. Mclean, Sir Douglas 1852-1929, son of Donald, Maraekakaho farmer, Hawke’s Bay politician. McMaster, farmed a station at Tuhitarata on the Ruamahunga near Lake Wairarapa, one of Grey’s first land purchases in 1853. Magellan, Ferdinand 1480-1521, great Portuguese explorer. Mair, Gilbert, early settler at Bay of Islands, rowed Colenso ashore on his first arrival in 1834. Mair, Robert 1830-?, early settler at Bay of Islands, notebook in Alexander Turnbull Library. Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895, naturalist, one time Commissioner for Crown Lands, elected to the House of Representatives for Wallace in 1861. Marcoy, Paul (pseudonym for L. St Cricq 1815-1888, French explorer: Travels in South America…, 2 vols, 1875. Marquand, Ernest D, curator and secretary during the 1880s, of the Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society. Maskell, William Miles 1839-1898, farmer, entomoligist, administrator. Maunsell, Rev Robert 1810-1894, missionary, Maori scholar, translator; established mission at Maraetai, Waikato Heads. Meinertzhagen, Frederick Huth, farming at Waimarama, Hawke’s Bay 1881. Melville: see Greville, see Strickland. Mettenius, Georg Heinrich 1823-1866. German pteridologist. Mitten, William 1819-1906, described 373 species of Hepaticae in 25 publications between 1851 and 1889. Monro, Dr David 1813-1877, founded Nelson Horticultural Society, sent plants to Kew, explored with Knight, daughter married James Hector. Montagne, Jean Francois Camille 1784-1866: French botanist Sylloge Gen. Spec. Cryptog., 1856; described specimens obtained during the 2nd voyage of L’Astrolabe. Moore, Dr Thomas Charles, surgeon, Shakespeare Tce, Napier appears on the 1893 electoral roll. Moore, Thomas 1821-1887: Index Filicum: a synopsis, with characters, of the genera, 1857-1862 in 20 parts. Morris, Frank 1869-1949, teacher and naturalist: Our wild orchids with Edward Eames, 1929. Morris, FO, A history of British birds, 6 vols, 1870 Mortensen, Johann Frederick, owner of “Fernhills” guesthouse, where Colenso stayed while at Norsewood. Johann is the father of “Hans” , to whom letters from Colenso survive in the Alexander Turnbull Library. Mueller, C = Johann Karl August Müller 1818-1899, bryophytes, fungi and lichens, pteridophytes, spermatophytes. Mueller, Baron Sir Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von 1825-1896, German-born Australian botanist. Müller, Friedrich Max 1823-1900, virtually created the field of comparative religion: Anthropological Religion, 1892. Murray, Sir John 1841-1914, Scottish oceanographer, on the Challenger expedition 1872. Napier, General Sir Charles James 1782-1853, British general and Commander-in-Chief in India. The city of Napier is named after him. Newman, Edward 1801-1876: A history of British ferns and allied plants, 1840. Northwood, Captain JH co-owner of Ahiaruhe (Gladstone, Wairarapa: q.v. in place names) with HS Tiffin. They brought the first sheep from the Wairarapa to Waipukurau, and to Hawke’s Bay. Norton, CJ: see “collectors” (below). Nylander, William 1822-1899, Finnish botanist: Lichenes Novae-Zelandiae, 1888; Synopsis Methodica Lichenum, 1858. Oliver, Prof Daniel 1830-1916, British botanist, Kew and University College, London. Olsen, Andreas: see “collectors” (below). Onslow, Sir William Hillier 1853-1911, 13th Governor of New Zealand. Orton, Richard, sailed with Cook on the Endeavour. Often drunk. Owen, Prof Sir Richard 1804-1892, English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist, widely regarded as malicious and dishonest, deduced (perhaps independently of Colenso) that the large bones found in N.Z. were from a giant flightless bird. Pamplin, William 1806-1899, botanist, publisher, bookseller in Soho 1839-1862. Parker, Prof Thomas Jeffery 1850-1897, Professor of Biology at Otago, zoologist, museum curator. Parkinson, Sydney 1745-1771, artist on Cook’s Endeavour, thus first NZ botanical artist; died after visit to Batavia (Jakarta). Parkinson, Rev Joshua 1838-1891, Curate at St Augustine, Napier 1884-1891. Pharazyn, Charles Johnson 1802-1903; businessman who came to Wellington in 1941, and later grazed 5000 acres at Palliser Bay. Playfair, Lyon, 1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews 1818-1898, politician and chemist. Presl, Carl Borivoj 1794–1852, Bohemian botanist. Preston, Rev GH, at St Mary’s, Parnell, in 1891: Studies in Thomas a Kempis, 1912. Purchas, Rev. Dr Arthur Guynon, surgeon, clergyman, musician, first vicar St Mary’s Onehunga, Medical Officer of Health, Auckland. Quaritch, Bernard, antiquarian booksellers in London since 1847 (and still advertising). de Quatrefages de Breau, Jean Louis Armand 1810-1892, French naturalist, worked on all aspects of zoology. Ralfs, John MRCS 1807-1890, Honorary Member of the Penzance Natural History Society: The British Desmidiae, illustrated by Edward Jenner, 1848. Raoul, Etienne Fiacre Louis 1815-1852, surgeon on L’Aube and L’Allier at Akaroa 1840-1843; plant descriptions in Choix de Plantes de la Nouvelle Zelande, 1846. Reader, Felix M 1850-1911 was a member of the Hawke’s Bay Philosophical Institute in 1882. His main collection of 10,000 specimens is one of the “significant historical collections,” purchased in 1906 by the National Herbarium of Victoria. A beneficiary in Colenso’s will. Reader, Rev. HP 1850-1929: his collections of cryptogams are represented in a number of herbaria in England, Wales and Ireland. Reeve, Lovell Augustus 1814-1865, publisher, Covent Garden. Richard, Achille 1794-1852, French physician and botanist: Essai d’une Flore de la Nouvelle Zealande, 1832, described plants collected by D’Urville and Lesson. Richmond, James Crowe 1822-1898, Colonial Secretary, Minister of Native Affairs. Robertshawe, Rev Ed., vicar at Dannevirke, a beneficiary in Colenso’s will. Ross, James Clark 1800-1862, Commander of the Erebus on her Antarctic voyage. Seemann, Dr Berthold Carl 1825-1871, German botanist whom JD Hooker recommended for the HMS Herald exploration of the American west coast and Pacific. Schærer, Ludwig Emanuel 1785-1853, Swiss lichenologist. Schomburgh, Robert Hermann 1804-1865, German-born naturalist and traveller. Schwaegrichen, DF: Synopsis fungorum Carolinæ, 1822. Seddon, Richard John 1845-1906, Liberal politician and Premier of New Zealand. Seringe, Nicolas-Charles: Flore des Jardins..., 3 vols 1845. Selwyn, Rt Rev. George Augustus 1809-1878; Bishop of New Zealand 1841-1858, Primate of New Zealand 1858-1868. Shortland, Dr Edward 1812-1893, explorer, Maori scholar, and interpreter. Sinclair, Dr Andrew 1796-1861; Colonial Secretary, naturalist. Smith, Captain; surveyor, and Wairarapa squatter. Smith, James Edward 1759-1828. English botanist and founder of the Linnean Society: Historia filicum, 1793; The English Flora, 1824. Solander, Daniel 1733-1782, natural historian with Banks on Cook’s first voyage. Sowerby, James 1757-1822, English naturalist and illustrator, eg in A specimen of the botany of New Holland or English botany. Sowerby, John E: The grasses of Great Britain, 1861. Spencer, Herbert 1820-1903, English philosopher and liberal political theorist, an “indefatiguable pundit of nearly everything” (Stephen Jay Gould) who applied the term “evolution” to Darwinism, and who coined the phrase “survival of the fittest”. Spencer, Dr William Isaac, Napier physician, later mayor, a beneficiary in Colenso’s will. Sprengel, Kurt Polycarp Joachim 1766-1833; German physician and botanist, nephew of JR Forster: Systema Vegetabilium, 1826. Stafford, Edward William 1819-1901, runholder, provincial superintendent, sportsman, NZ premier. Stanley, Dean Arthur Penrhyn 1815-1881, the leading Englsih liberal theologian of his time. Stephani, Franz 1842-1927: Species Hepaticarum, 1909-1912. Stokes, Prof Sir George Gabriel 1819-1903, Cambridge mathematician, physicist, president of the Royal Society. Strickland, Hugh Edwin: (with AG Melville): The Dodo and its Kindred, 1848. Stuart, Edward Craig, 2nd Bishop of Waiapu (1877-1894). Sturm, FWC: see “collectors” (below). Suter, Henry: see “collectors” (below). Swainson, William 1789 – 1855; English ornithologist, entomologist, conchologist, artist. Swartz, Peter Olof 1760-1818, Swedish botanist and taxonomist, best known for his work on pteridophytes. Tasman, Abel Janszoon 1603?-1659, Dutch mariner, first European to discover New Zealand. Taylor, Rev. Richard 1805-1873, botanist & geologist, arrived Bay of Islands 1839, ran missionary school at Waimate. Sent botanical specimens to Hooker. Thomson, George Malcolm 1848-1933, Dunedin science teacher and MP. Tiffin, HS, co-owner of Ahiaruhe (see JH Northwood), later a member of the Hawke’s Bay Philosophical Institute with Colenso. Tindell, Ella Mary, Misperton Hall, England; botanist and botanical artist. Travers, William Thomas Locke 1819-1903, lawyer, politician, naturalist, collected plants around Nelson. Tregear, Edward 1846-1931, NZ public servant and liberal scholar: Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, 1891. Tripp, Frances Elizabeth 1832-1890: British Mosses, their Homes, Aspects, Structure and Uses, 1874. Trubner & co, publishers, Paternoster Row, London. Tuckerman, Edward 1817-1886: Lichenes Americae Septentrionalis Exsiccati, 1851, Genera Lichenum: An Arrangement of North American Lichens, 1872. Tuke, Rev Charles Lawrence 1858-1929, incumbent All Saints Taradale 1883-1893. T ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ urner, Dawson 1775-1858, banker, botanist and antiquary, published on cryptogams; his daughter Maria married WJ Hooker. Tyndall, Prof John 1820-1893, Irish-born physicist, philosopher, rationalist member of the X Club with Huxley, Hooker, Spencer; poisoned accidentally by his wife. Vancouver, George 1757-1798, British naval explorer, esp. Pacific coast N. America. Wade, William R, missionary at Waimate from 1834, employed as Superintendent of the Mission Press at Paihia, but fell out with other missionaries. Webb, Canon Anthony Spur, first vicar of Ormondville, 1884. Weddell, James, 1787-1834: A voyage towards the South Pole … 1822-24, 1825. Welsh Rev. Walter 1843-1906, curate St Augustines, Napier 1895-1900. Wesley & Son, London booksellers. Whittaker & Co published an English translation of Cuvier’s The Class Pisces, 1834. White, Gilbert 1720-1793; pioneering naturalist and ornithologist: The natural history of Selborne, 1788. Whitmore, Major-General Sir George Stoddart , soldier in Maori wars, later member of Legislative Council. Wilkes, Charles 1798-1877, led the first US Navy expedition to the Pacific in 1838, at Paihia for 3 months during Colenso’s time. Williams, Edward, eldest son of Henry, farmed at Pakaraka between Ohaeawai and Kawakawa. Williams, Henry 1792-1867; from 1823 became the leader of the CMS missionaries from Paihia; strongly supported the Treaty of Waitangi, and was official interpreter at the first signing; criticized by Governor Grey for his land purchases on behalf of his family. Williams, Rev. Samuel, son of Henry Williams, drained part ot Te Aute lagoon or lake and Patangata swamp, became the rural dean of Hawkes Bay from 1854 to 1888 during which time he founded Te Aute College. Williams, William 1800-1878, first Bishop of Waiapu (1859-1878), wrote Dictionary of the New Zealand language and a concise grammar,1844. Williams, William Leonard 1829-1916, third Bishop of Waiapu (1895-1909). Williams and Kettle, general store and shipping agency, Port Ahuriri, Napier, 1880; now rural service specialists throughout the North island. Wilson, William: Bryologia Brittanica, 1855. Winkelmann, Charles Peter: see “collectors” (below), a beneficiary in Colenso’s will. Colenso’s collectors Colenso probably personally collected most of his specimens in his missionary period, and one can only gape in amazement at his industry, looking into every nook and crevice for something new – and finding it! Often there is a note of Māori companions collecting specimens from inaccessible places (from up a tree, a reef offshore, or a distant locality). He wrote of No. 252 from the 1846 list, “Houheria…. Fruiting specimens gathered by Natives”, and No. 2447, “Composit. – the plant I have not seen, these few specimens having been brought me by a Native, from road betn. Ahuriri & Te Wairoa, H. Bay.” In his letter of May 1844 he wrote, “Among the plants sent are a few from the Alpine and snowy summit of Mount Hikurangi, near the E. Cape, which I would were better: I could not go thither myself, so sent an intelligent Native, who, after several days absence, brought those now sent, and 2 birds, just enough to make one sigh for more; and the dearest lot I ever obtained, costing me nearly £4! – I still live in hopes of one day visiting that Mountain.” Of No. 101 (a Gastrodia) in the plants sent with James Busby in 1844 he admitted, “I have sought after (this) for several years, offering rewards for it...”. Although he referred in his CMS reports to his Māori companions by name, he rarely recorded the names of collectors in the missionary period.Some plants were gathered by his daughter; others sent by friends. In his retirement period he received plants from visitors and friends,363 and even “…enlisted some children of the neighbouring Scandinavian settlers and through them I got a few”,364 and was assisted by an “an enthusiastic band of amateurs, led by Henry Hill, who collected botanical specimens for Colenso in 1880-1890”.365 That group included the following, many of them members of the Hawke’s Bay Philosophical Institute, of which Colenso was for some years Secretary, and later, President. EW Andrews collected a number of plants in the Ruahines, and they were described by Colenso in 1895. He was a teacher at Wanganui Collegiate in 1896, and was appointed first assistant at Napier High School in 1902. As early as 1910, he noted that: “in New Zealand the dialect is not a matter of locality and occupation, not even of social position nor education.” He wrote a paper, “Pebbles and drifting sand” published in the Trans NZ Inst. Horace Baker 1851-1914 came to NZ in 1866, trained as a surveyor, and in 1870 was sent to assist in the surveys at Hawkes Bay. In 1873 he undertook the survey of the Seventy Mile Bush. He was appointed Chief Surveyor for Hawke’s Bay in 1877. He also became Commissioner of Crown Lands for Hawke’s Bay, and a Commissioner under the “Native Land Administration Act, 1836”. He later entered private practice as surveyor and land agent at Napier. He sent specimens to Colenso, among them a Metrosideros of which Colenso wrote, “Hills, forests on the east coast between Wainui and Akitio rivers, 900 feet elevation; January, 1883: Mr. Horace Baker, in lit.” David Paton Balfour 1841-1894 sheepfarmer, station manager, roading supervisor, diarist, was born in Scotland. His father took the family to Australia, and David found odd jobs before moving to a large sheep station; there he was given the responsibility of tallying and pasturing the sheep. He joined the goldrush to Otago in 1862, worked on a sheep station at Moeraki, and attended night school in 1864 and quickly became literate. He supported himself with work on various South Island stations. Balfour moved to Hawke’s Bay in 1866, purchased a rough tract of land miles up the Mohaka River. Later he managed Gwavas station, and in 1873 took up employment with John Kinross who owned Mangawhare station and Glenross. He married Elizabeth Roberts on 18 November 1876 at Puketapu; they were to have three children. Balfour studied astronomy and botany, the latter enabling him to collect plants for Colenso from Glenross. He had accumulated an extensive library, which in 1878 he made available to the station staff and community; they had previously contributed money of their own to buy books for winter reading. A diary entry on 13 May 1883 reveals the farmer-scientist: “Tried to mount some things for Microscope but did not succeed very well. Tried to burn off some Manuka in old Station paddock and succeeded better”. When Kinross became bankrupt owing him over one thousand pounds, he was forced out of Glenross in 1889 and moved to Puketapu. Balfour became a Hawke’s Bay County Council roading supervisor. He drowned at Puketapu on 13 July 1894 while trying to rescue a sheep from a drain; he had been weakened by influenza. Balfour wrote an account of his life for his children, and that, together with a number of letters and his diaries (begun in the 1880s), are valuable sources of information about contemporary life in New Zealand. 366 Colenso’s letters to Balfour have survived. William Knox Chambers (born in South Australia in 1850) was taken by his parents in 1854 to Hawke’s Bay, where he was brought up to sheepfarming. In 1873 he bought Repongaere, 4413 acres near Gisborne. He served on the Ormond, Waikohu and Ngatapa Road Boards, Cook County Council and Gisborne Harbour Board. He sent specimens to Colenso, among them a Lycopodium, from “High lands, altitude 2,000 feet, north of Gisborne, County of Cook; 1887: Mr. W. K. Chambers.” |