Edward Lofley (c. 1839–1889) was a New Zealand soldier, spa proprietor, tourist guide, and journalist. He was born in

Headingley Headingley is a suburb of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, approximately two miles out of the city centre, to the north west along the A660 road. Headingley is the location of the Beckett Park campus of Leeds Beckett University and Headingl ...

, a suburb of

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, in 1839. He fought in the

Waikato War The Invasion of the Waikato became the largest and most important campaign of the 19th-century New Zealand Wars. Hostilities took place in the North Island of New Zealand between the military forces of the colonial government and a federation ...

and at some point, married a Maori wife.

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