James Copland (3 February 1834 – 9 November 1902) was a New Zealand presbyterian minister, doctor and writer. He was born in

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, Scotland on 3 February 1834 and emigrated to New Zealand in 1864. He was active as a minister in Lawrence and then in North Dunedin, because he resigned from the ministry. He then practised again as a doctor and moved to

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, where he died on 9 November 1902. It is believed that the surveyor George John Roberts named the

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on the West Coast of New Zealand for Copland, with the name later adopted for an alpine pass and a

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1834 births 1902 deaths 19th-century New Zealand medical doctors Scottish emigrants to New Zealand New Zealand writers New Zealand Presbyterians {{NewZealand-med-bio-stub