Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
Letters from John William Hall to Thomas Frederick Cheeseman, 1887 - 1913
Date
1887-1913
Physical Description
Spiral-bound typescript volume ; 297 mm x 210 mm ; 44 pages
Level of Current Record
Single Item
Provenance Details
Location of original: Cheeseman, Thomas Frederic. Papers, 1867 - 1923. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 58, Box 8, Folder 2.
Public Access Text
Originals transcribed for the Thames-Hauraki Forest & Bird Society by Marcia Sowman, Maria Stables-Page and Doug and Jane Ashby, 2008.
Subject Notes
John William Hall was born at Peatling Magna, Leicestershire, England, in 1830, where he was educated and undertook an apprenticeship in pharmacy in London. He arrived in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1858, and initially took up farming at Otahuhu. After the opening of the Thames goldfield in 1867 he established a business as local a chemist and druggist in Owen Street. Hall's love of arboriculture, particularly New Zealand indigenous trees and shrubs, saw him become one of the first to undertake experimental taxonomy and later cultivate and plant an arboretum at Parawai, Thames. Hall died on 24 May 1915, at Thames, aged 85 years.
Credit Line
Donated by Forest & Bird Society, Thames-Hauraki Branch, per Ken Clark, on 4 May 2009.
Last Update
27 Jul 2023
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