Elizabeth Horrell (21 April 1826 – 18 January 1913) was a New Zealand teacher and homemaker.

Biography

She was born in Topsham,

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shire,

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on 21 April 1826. Horrell and her husband emigrated to New Zealand on the ''

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'' in September 1850, in the first group of settlers. Horrell was Canterbury's first female schoolteacher, teaching in Lyttelton from 1850.

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1826 births 1913 deaths 19th-century New Zealand educators English emigrants to New Zealand People from Exeter Schoolteachers from Devon {{NewZealand-bio-stub