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Biography: Despard, Henry

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J. A. B. Crawford. 'Despard, Henry', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1990, updated August 2020. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/126579/related-biographies (accessed 4 June 2026).