Leonard Stowe CMG (1837-1920) was a New Zealand politician and inventor. He was Clerk of the Legislative Council and Clerk of Parliament. Stowe was born in 1837 in

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, the son of William Stowe (1791-1860). The scholar and journalist

William Henry Stowe William Henry Stowe (1 January 182522 June 1855) was a scholar and journalist. Biography He was the eldest son of William and Mary Stowe, and was born at Buckingham on 1 January 1825. His brother was Leonard Stowe. After attending a school at I ...

was his brother. On 31 May 1871, he married Jane Greenwood at

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. Stowe died in 1920. He was buried in the Bolton Street Cemetery. His daughter Emily Muriel Lysaght was the mother of Averil Lysaght and Muriel Mary Lysaght.

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1837 births 1920 deaths British emigrants to New Zealand Burials at Bolton Street Cemetery Greenwood family (New Zealand) Officers of the Parliament of New Zealand {{NewZealand-politician-stub