Dear tyrant : an extraordinary colonial life / Barrie Allom.
Material type: TextPublisher: Masterton, New Zealand : Wairarapa Archive : Fraser Books, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: viii, 315 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780992247522 :
- 993.02092 23
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993.02 VAG History of New Zealand and its inhabitants / | 993.02 WIL War in the tussock : Te Kooti and the battle at Te Porere / | 993.02 WRI Fighting past each other : the New Zealand Wars 1845-1875 / | 993.02092 ALL Dear tyrant : an extraordinary colonial life / | 993.02092 AMA The amazing world of James Hector / | 993.02092 CAM Young Logan Campbell / | 993.02092 COL Give your thoughts life : William Colenso's letters to the editor / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
London lad, 1825-1841 -- Voyage of the Brougham, 1841-1842 -- Survey cadet with the NZ company, 1842-1845 -- Wairarapa squatter, 1845-1848 -- Secretary to E. G. Wakefield, 1848-1850 -- Tobago: colonial services, 1851-1861 -- Voyage of the Mermaid, 1861 -- Great Barrier Island: build-up, 1861-1862 -- Great Barrier Island: options galore, 1862-1863 -- Great Barrier Island: let down, 1863-1868 -- Another venture: voyage of the Rapido, 1868-1869 -- Thames: Registrar of Mines, 1870-1875 -- Ohinemuri: Register of Mines, 1875-1877 -- Thames: from gold to justice, 1878-1882 -- Thames: family affairs and interests, 1883-1886 -- Thames: up, down and out, 1886-1889 -- Launceston: entrepreneur and stirrer, 1889-1896 -- Auckland: a struggle for recognition, 1897-1899 -- Auckland: issues legal, ethical and ethnic, 1897-1900 -- Auckland: a new century, 1900-1903 -- Auckland: from zest to rest, 1904-1909.
"Dear Tyrant, as his wife called him, is the story of Albert James Allom (1825-1909), his family and childhood, his adventurous youth, his relationship with Edward Gibbon Wakefield, his struggle for success, and his philosophy of life. His story begins in London then moves to New Zealand and, later, the West Indies before he returns to New Zealand. Later again, seven years are spent in Tasmania before a final return to New Zealand. In New Zealand he was a survey cadet for the New Zealand Company in Wellington, Manawatu and Otago before becoming an enterprising run-holder in the Wairarapa, a mining and farming estate manager on Great Barrier Island, the registrar of mines at Thames and Ohinemuri goldfields, and eventually a very active retiree in Auckland. The story of his life is laced with human insight, humour and tragedy. Many notable figures during New Zealand's colonial era appear in Allom's own writings which add immediacy to the narrative and there are poignant passages about his beloved wife, Eliza, and their family of nine children"--Back cover.
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