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… errant. A new biography of Thierry, Charles Philippe Hippolyte de appears in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site. De Thierry was the eldest son of Baron Charles de … devotion to the royal cause during the revolution necessitated the family's withdrawal from France), and is generally …
… (1805–65). Navigator, meteorologist, Colonial Governor. A new biography of FitzRoy, … in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site. FitzRoy was born on 5 July 1805 at Ampton Hall, Suffolk, … of Londonderry, and to Field Marshal Lord Hardinge. After entering the Navy in 1819 FitzRoy was appointed in 1828 …
… round north-east along the line of the inland valley route to Kaikoura. All the country north of it is mountainous, penetrated by deep and narrow fault-angle valleys with isolated pockets of coastal lowland about its ragged margin. …
… In 1840 European activity shifted abruptly to the Tamaki Isthmus and Northland became a backwater. Governor Hobson, in giving his reasons for selecting Auckland as the site for the colonial capital, pointed to its central position …
… where agriculture, because of soil deficiencies, has only lately been developed. Pockets still exist in the valleys … is present in small and large areas throughout the former extent of the kauri forest. The forest in the north, … spicatus ) and totara ( P. totara ) sometimes dominate, or matai, totara, rimu ( Dacrydium cupressinum ) and …
… the active Alpine Fault and its probable north-eastern continuation, the Whangamoa Fault ( see diagram 8) separates two areas of dissimilar geology. To the east of the … Upper Paleozoic and Lower Mesozic greywackes and argillites are the predominant rocks exposed. The main part of …
… in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site. Thomas Russell was born at Cork, in Ireland, being the son of a small farmer who emigrated to New Zealand with his family in the Lady Leigh and, after living for a few months at Kororareka, settled at …
… in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site. Thomas Gore Browne was born on 3 July 1807, the son of … House, near Buckingham, and Sarah Dorothea, second daughter of Gabriel Steward, M.P., of Nottingham and Melcombe, Dorset. Browne's …
… Pioneer surveyors in Canterbury, Nelson, and Westland Provinces. Sir Arthur Dudley … the sons of Edward Dobson (1816–1908), who arrived at Lyttelton in the Cressy on 27 December 1850 with Arthur and … Fatima in 1851. Finding it difficult to settle down in Canterbury with two small sons, Dobson in 1851 sent Arthur and …
… The Reform Party, though its antecedents may be traced at least to the beginning of the century, emerged as a separate party in 1909, closely allied to the Farmers' Union and … plausible to link the Liberals with the cause of this discontent. After 1906 a number of larger unions – of freezing …