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Biography: Cumberland, Kenneth Brailey

On the land

Kenneth Cumberland, in middle age, leans on a farm fence with a mob of sheep behind him.

Geographer Kenneth Cumberland put the principles arising from his research into practice on his South Auckland and King Country farms, which he managed in partnership with his son Garth.

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Eric Pawson. 'Cumberland, Kenneth Brailey', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2023. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/47857/on-the-land (accessed 4 June 2026).