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Biography: Brind, William Darby

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Jocelyn Chisholm. 'Brind, William Darby', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1990, updated February 2006. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/126211/related-biographies (accessed 4 June 2026).