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Samuel Saunders (journalist)
Samuel Saunders (1857–1943) was a New Zealand journalist and newspaper editor. Biography Saunders was born in Nelson, New Zealand in 1857 to Rhoda Saunders (née Flower) and Alfred Saunders. His uncle was William Saunders and his sister was Sarah Page. In 1880 he married Helen Johnston who was a granddaughter of William Cargill. He was editor of the Lyttelton Times from 1891 to 1914. Saunders died in Eastbourne, New Zealand Eastbourne is a suburb of Lower Hutt, a part of Wellington, New Zealand. Lying beside the sea, it is a popular local tourist destination via car from Petone or from ferry crossings from central Wellington. An outer suburb, it lies on the easter ... in 1943, aged 86. References 1857 births 1943 deaths Saunders family New Zealand editors {{NewZealand-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nelson, New Zealand
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Eastbourne, New Zealand
Eastbourne is a suburb of Lower Hutt, a part of Wellington, New Zealand. Lying beside the sea, it is a popular local tourist destination via car from Petone or from ferry crossings from central Wellington. An outer suburb, it lies on the eastern shore of Wellington Harbour, five kilometres south of the main Lower Hutt urban area and directly across the harbour from the Miramar Peninsula in Wellington city. A narrow exposed coastal road connects it with the rest of Lower Hutt via the Eastern Bays and the industrial suburb of Seaview. It is named for Eastbourne in England, another seaside town known as a destination for day-trips. In the hills bordering Eastbourne there is mainly native bush and trees. With a locally administered possum-eradication programme, much of the native bush has regenerated, including red-flowering northern rātā trees. The bush has numerous tracks running to and from them, including a track along the entire bays hills ridge. With many settlers origina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Saunders
Alfred Saunders (12 June 1820 – 28 October 1905) was a 19th-century New Zealand politician. Early life Saunders was born in 1820 in Market Lavington, the youngest son of Mary and Amram Saunders. He was educated in Market Lavington and at a Bristol academy. William Saunders (1823–1895) was a younger brother. Political career He was elected onto the Nelson Provincial Council representing Waimea South in 1855 and remained a councillor until his election of Superintendent for the Nelson Province from 1865 to 1867. He was elected as Member of Parliament for Waimea in 1861, and he resigned from this seat in 1864. He then represented Cheviot from 1878 to 1881 when he was defeated. He unsuccessfully contested the in the electorate. He contested the in the electorate and was defeated by John Verrall by just two votes. From 1889 to 1890 he represented the Lincoln electorate and from 1890 to 1896 he represented Selwyn, being defeated at the general election of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Page (prohibitionist)
Sarah Page ( Saunders; 26 August 1863 – 20 January 1950), also known as Sarah Saunders Page, was a New Zealand teacher, feminist, prohibitionist, socialist, social reformer, and politician. Early life and family Sarah Saunders was born in Waimea South, Nelson, New Zealand in 1863. She was one of ten children of Rhoda Saunders (née Flower) and Alfred Saunders, a radical politician, and grew up surrounded by Quakers. Sarah McMurray, a woodcarver and craftswoman, was Sarah Page's cousin through her mother's sister, Susannah Silcock (née Flower). In 1896, she married Samuel Page, who was a science demonstrator at Canterbury Museum and like herself a Quaker. They were to have two sons, including Robert Page. Politics With Ada Wells, she was a dominating influence on the Canterbury Women's Institute. She was also active with the National Council of Women of New Zealand and was the organisation's secretary in 1905–06. She was an ardent critic of conscription and upset Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Bayley
Mary Bayly (née Saunders; 4 March 1816 – 13 December 1899), sometimes spelled Mary Bayley, was a British temperance activist and pamphlet writer. Life Bayly was born in Market Lavington in 1816. the daughter of Mary and Amram Saunders. Alfred Saunders and William Saunders (1823–1895) were her brothers. She married in Bath at the Argyle Congregational Chapel to George Bayly who was a master mariner. George would work in the Merchant Navy and Trinity House and he was an amateur artist. In 1953 she started temperance meetings in North Kensington where mothers of different classes could meet and they could obtain religious and domestic advice. She felt that mothers could alleviate the effects of drunkenous. At the time 60,000 people a year had deaths ascribed to drinking. In 1861 she published ''Mended Homes and what Repaired Them'' concerning the effect of alcohol on men and the family. Bayly wanted women to concentrate on making their husband's homes comfortable and to avoid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Saunders (Liberal Politician)
William Saunders (20 November 1823 – 1 May 1895) was a British newspaper publisher and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1885 and 1895. Biography Saunders was born in 1823 in Market Lavington, the youngest son of Mary and Amram Saunders. He went to school in Devizes. Alfred Saunders (1820–1905) was an elder brother and Alfred's child Sarah Page Sarah Page may refer to: *Sarah Page, a character in the science fiction television series ''Primeval'' *Sarah Page (prohibitionist) (1863–1950), New Zealand teacher, feminist, prohibitionist, socialist, social reformer, and politician * Sarah Pa ... was his niece. Saunders, who was a member of The Plymouth Institution (now The Plymouth Athenaeum), founded several newspapers. He established the '' Western Morning News'' at Plymouth in 1860 with Edward Spender. The ''Eastern Morning News'' was established at Hull and the first number appeared in January 1864. Saunders also established the Central N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah McMurray
Sarah Ann McMurray ( Silcock, 26 August 1848 – 14 September 1943) was a New Zealand woodcarver and craftswoman. Biography McMurray was born in Nelson, New Zealand, on 26 August 1848, the daughter of Susannah Silcock (''née'' Flower) and Captain Simon Bonnet Silcock. McMurray was the third of 14 children. Sarah Page, a prohibitionist, was McMurray's cousin through her mother's sister, Rhoda Saunders (née Flower), who married politician Alfred Saunders. She married Robert McMurray in 1872. They had six children. They lived for some time in dense forest in the Inangahua Valley on the West Coast of the South Island. In the 1880s they moved to a farm in Awahuri in the North Island. Later moving again to Wanganui. She took up relief carving as a hobby and despite being over 50 years old she enrolled in a local technical college to develop her wood carving skills. She was prolific and elaborately carved most of the furnishings in her house. She was among the signatories to New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Page (chemist)
Robert Owen Page (23 November 1897 – 14 July 1957) was a New Zealand pacifist and industrial chemist. Biography Page was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, on 23 November 1897. His father, Samuel Page, taught chemistry at Canterbury College, while his mother, Sarah Saunders, was a feminist who promoted social reforms. His maternal grandfather was Alfred Saunders a radical politician. Robert's friends knew him as Robin, and he attended Christchurch Boys’ High School until 1914. He won a university Junior Scholarship and went to Canterbury College, where he earned a BSc A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University of ... majoring in chemistry in 1917. He was awarded the Sir George Grey Scholarship, a Senior Scholarship and the Haydon Prize. He was a conscientious objector and w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Cargill (New Zealand Politician)
William Walter Cargill (27 August 1784 – 6 August 1860) was the founder of the Otago settlement in New Zealand, after serving as an officer in the British Army. He was a member of parliament and Otago's first Superintendent. Early life Cargill was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1784. His parents were James Cargill and Marrion Jamieson. His father died of alcoholism when he was 15. He joined the British Army in 1802 and served with distinction in India, Spain, and France. In 1813, he married Mary Ann Yates; they had seventeen children. Of these, two of his five sons became notable in public life: John, who followed in his father's footsteps and became a politician, and Edward, a prominent businessman and politician. Family circumstances forced him to sell his commission in 1820, though he was later referred to as "Captain Cargill". After leaving the army, he became a wine merchant in Scotland. On 24 November 1847, Cargill sailed for New Zealand on the ship '' John Wickliff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evening Post
''Evening Post'' or ''The Evening Post'' may refer to the following newspapers: United Kingdom * ''Evening Post'' (London) (1710–1732), then ''Berington's Evening Post'' (1732–1740) * ''London Evening Post'' (1727–1797) * ''Whitehall Evening Post'' (1718–1801), London * ''Bristol Evening Post'' (1932–2012), renamed the ''Bristol Post'' * ''Jersey Evening Post'' (founded 1890) * ''Lancashire Evening Post'' (founded 1886) * ''Nottingham Evening Post'' (founded 1878), now the ''Nottingham Post'' * ''Reading Evening Post'', name changed to the ''Reading Post'' in 2009 * ''South Wales Evening Post'', name changed in 1932 from the original ''South Wales Daily Post'' * ''Wigan Evening Post'', formerly ''Wigan Evening Post and Chronicle'', now ''Wigan Post'' * ''Yorkshire Evening Post'' (founded 1890), Leeds, West Yorkshire United States * ''Boston Evening-Post'' (1735–1775) * ''The Evening Post'' (1894–1991), now part of ''The Post and Courier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PapersPast
The National Library of New Zealand ( mi, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa) is New Zealand's legal deposit library charged with the obligation to "enrich the cultural and economic life of New Zealand and its interchanges with other nations" (''National Library of New Zealand (Te Puna Mātauranga) Act 2003''). Under the Act, the library's duties include collection, preserving and protecting the collections of the National Library, significant history documents, and collaborating with other libraries in New Zealand and abroad. The library supports schools through its Services to Schools business unit, which has curriculum and advisory branches around New Zealand. The Legal Deposit Office is New Zealand's agency for ISBN and ISSN. The library headquarters is close to the Parliament of New Zealand and the Court of Appeal on the corner of Aitken and Molesworth Streets, Wellington. History Origins The National Library of New Zealand was formed in 1965 when the General Assembly Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyttelton Times
The ''Lyttelton Times'' was the first newspaper in Canterbury, New Zealand, publishing the first edition in January 1851. It was established by the Canterbury Association as part of its planned settlement of Canterbury and developed into a liberal, at the time sometimes seen as radical, newspaper. A successor paper, ''The Star'', is published as a free bi-weekly newspaper. James FitzGerald was the newspaper's first editor, and it was FitzGerald who in 1861 set up its main competitor, '' The Press'', over the ''Lyttelton Times support for the Lyttelton Rail Tunnel. In 1935, it was ''The Press'' that won the competition for the morning newspaper market in Christchurch; the ''Lyttelton Times'' was the oldest newspaper in the country when it ceased that year. History The Canterbury Association was formed in order to establish a colony in what is now the Canterbury Region in the South Island of New Zealand. Part of the plan was to have a newspaper, and a prospectus was published i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
