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Biography: McLean, Donald

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Websites

The papers of Sir Donald McLean

Read Donald McLean's digitised manuscripts in Papers Past

Bibliography

Cowan, J. Sir Donald MacLean. Dunedin, 1940

Dalziel, R. '"Making us one": courtship and marriage in colonial New Zealand.' Turnbull Library Record XIX, No 1 (May 1986): 7–26

Fargher, R. W. S. 'Donald McLean, chief land purchase agent (1846–1861), and native secretary (1856–1861)'. MA thesis, Auckland, 1947

Fargher, R.W.S. The best man who ever served the crown? A life of Donald McLean. Wellington, 2007

Parr, B. 'The McLean estate, a study of pastoral finance and estate management in New Zealand, 1853–91'. MA thesis, Auckland, 1970

Sinclair, K. The origins of the Maori wars. Wellington, 1957

Ward, A. A show of justice. Auckland, 1973

Wright, M. Man of secrets: the private life of Donald McLean. Auckland, 2015

How to cite this page

Alan Ward. 'McLean, Donald', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1990. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/127565/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).