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Lydia Larden
Lydia Larden (1826 – 1901) was a British artist. Some of her watercolours are in the collection of the Sarjeant Gallery in Whanganui Whanganui, also spelt Wanganui, is a city in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand. The city is located on the west coast of the North Island at the mouth of the Whanganui River, New Zealand's longest navigable waterway. Whanganui is ..., New Zealand. Biography Larden was born Mary Lydia Fanny Bucknill in 1826 the daughter of Samuel Bucknill and Mary Birch. She married the Rev George Edge Larden in 1847 and they had four children. One of their daughters Frances Mary Larden died in June 1913 and their son Henry Neville Larden in February 1920. Another daughter Lydia Etheldreda (known as Ethel) married William Birch and emigrated to New Zealand. In 1922 she donated a collection of Larden's paintings to the Sarjeant Gallery in Whanganui. Gallery of artworks File:Ethel Birch - Badgworthy, North Devon - Sarjeant Gallery.jpg File: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarjeant Gallery
The Sarjeant Gallery at Pukenamu, Queen's Park Whanganui is a regional art museum with a collection of international and New Zealand art. It was closed for 10 years for redevelopment and re-opened on Saturday 9 November 2024. In 2024 it was announced as a 2024 NatGeo Best of the World pick. Founding and building The Sarjeant was built as the result of a bequest to the city by Henry Sarjeant in 1912. Sarjeant bequeathed the money "for the inspiration of ourselves and those who come after us." A competition was held to select an architect for the project; the winner was Dunedin architect Edmund Anscombe, but it is likely the actual design was completed by a young student in his offices named Donald Hosie. The cruciform, neo-classical style gallery was opened in 1919. Four galleries branch off a central space capped with an oculus in a hemispherical dome. Sarjeant's wife Ellen Sarjeant ( nee Stewart, later Neame) was instrumental in the formation of the early collection and est ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whanganui
Whanganui, also spelt Wanganui, is a city in the Manawatū-Whanganui region of New Zealand. The city is located on the west coast of the North Island at the mouth of the Whanganui River, New Zealand's longest navigable waterway. Whanganui is the 19th most-populous urban area in New Zealand and the second-most-populous in Manawatū-Whanganui, with a population of as of . Whanganui is the ancestral home of Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi and other Whanganui Māori tribes. The New Zealand Company began to settle the area in 1840, establishing its second settlement after Wellington. In the early years, most European settlers came via Wellington. Whanganui greatly expanded in the 1870s, and freezing works, woollen mills, phosphate works and wool stores were established in the town. Today, much of Whanganui's economy relates directly to the fertile and prosperous farming hinterland. Like several New Zealand urban areas, it was officially designated a city until an administrative r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethel Birch
Ethel Birch ( Lydia Etheldreda Larden, 1853 – 23 February 1927) was a British born New Zealand settler and the first European woman to climb Mount Ruapehu. She donated watercolours by her mother Lydia Larden to the Sarjeant Gallery in Whanganui. Biography Birch was the youngest daughter of Lydia Larden (née Bucknill) and Rev George Edge Larden of Arkel Rectory, Shropshire. She married her cousin William Birch (settler), William John Birch in Oxford, England, on 16 December 1875. Birch had emigrated to New Zealand in 1860 and with his brother Azim established a large sheep station on the Oruamatua-Kaimanawa Block near Moawhango, in the Inland Patea area between Napier and Taihape. The block was later called Erewhon. After their marriage, the couple travelled to New Zealand and settled at Erewhon. In 1877 or 1878 they built a house ''Stoneycroft'' in Hastings where they spent summers and ran a stud. From 1887 they lived at and managed Erewhon. In 1899 they moved to Thorseby Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Birch (settler)
William John Birch (February 1842 – 12 May 1920) was an English settler in New Zealand. He leased with his brother a large area in inland Patea, central North Island, for a sheep run. Early life Birch was born in February 1842 in Oxfordshire, England. He was the second son of William John Birch of Pudlicote House, Oxfordshire, England. His father had inherited wealth, but lost much of it in poorly-performing investments. After schooling in England and Germany, Birch took a two-year course at the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester. He came to New Zealand on the ''Wild Duck'' in February 1860. Birch initially was in Wellington. He took a position in the Hawke's Bay area, with the runholder Ashton St Hill, by the Tukituki River. He rose from cadet to manager there. Azim, William's elder brother, had joined the 44th (East Essex) Regiment of Foot, becoming an ensign in 1855. The regiment took part in the Crimean War, and in August 1857 left for India. Azim sold out his com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1826 Births
Events January–March * January 15 – The French newspaper ''Le Figaro'' begins publication in Paris, initially as a satirical weekly. * January 17 – The Ballantyne printing business in Edinburgh (Scotland) crashes, ruining novelist Sir Walter Scott as a principal investor. He undertakes to repay his creditors from his writings. His publisher, Archibald Constable, also fails. * January 18 – In India, the Siege of Bharatpur ends in British victory as Lord Combermere and Michael Childers defeat the princely state of Bharatpur, now part of the Indian state of Rajasthan. * January 30 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, built by engineer Thomas Telford as the first major suspension bridge in world history, is opened between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales. * February 6 – James Fenimore Cooper's novel ''The Last of the Mohicans'' is first printed, by a publisher in Philadelphia. * February 8 – Unitarian Bernardino Rivadavia becomes the first Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1901 Deaths
December 13 of this year is the beginning of signed 32-bit computing, 32-bit Unix time, and is scheduled to end in Year 2038 problem, January 19, 2038. Summary Political and military 1901 started with the Federation of Australia, unification of multiple Crown colony, British colonies in Australia on January 1 to form the Australia, Commonwealth of Australia after a 1898–1900 Australian constitutional referendums, referendum in 1900, Subsequently, the 1901 Australian federal election, 1901 Australian election would see the first Prime Minister of Australia, Australian prime minister, Edmund Barton. On the same day, Nigeria became a Colonial Nigeria, British protectorate. Following this, the Victorian era, Victorian Era would come to a end after Queen Victoria died on January 22 after a reign of 63 years and 216 days, which was List of monarchs in Britain by length of reign, longer than those of any of her predecessors, Her son, Edward VII, succeeded her to the throne. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
