Frank Yates Lethbridge
Frank Yates Lethbridge was an independent conservative Member of Parliament in New Zealand, representing first the Rangitikei electorate from 1896 to 1902, and ... Read More
Frederick Pope
Frederick Pope was born in 1824, and received his education at the Grammar School, Hanley, Staffordshire. He then entered the service of Coxon & Son, as an arch... Read More
Margaret Knight, c. 1954
Margaret Knight was the successful candidate in the 1954 Queen Carnival to raise money for the proposed Civic Centre. She is shown here in her coronation regali... Read More
Douglas Hastings MacArthur
Douglas Hastings MacArthur was born in Edinburgh, in 1839. He came to New Zealand in 1856, and farmed land near Collingwood before trying his hand at mining. He... Read More
John Hammond Murray
John Hammond Murray was a sheepfarmer in Waituna Valley during the late 1800's and early 1900's. He ran a flock of 6000 Lincoln sheep and a herd of 200 cattle o... Read More
George William Fowles
George William Fowles was a watchmaker and machinist in Feilding in the late 1800's and early 1900's. He was born in Warwickshire, England, and learnt and pract... Read More
Goodbehere Family, c. 1907
The Goodbehere family, photographed on Christmas Day in 1907. In the photo: Back Row: Mrs. Edmund Goodbehere; F. Goodbehere; Ellen Goodbehere; Edmund Goodbe... Read More
Charles Adnam Mountfort
Charles Adnam Mountfort was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1854. He qualified as an authorised surveyor in May 1880, and went to Taranaki with his brothe... Read More
Thomas Harvey James
Thomas Harvey James was an architect in the Manawatu in the late 1800's and early 1900's. He began his business in Palmerston North in 1889, and remained there ... Read More
David Penruddock Buchanan
David Penruddock Buchanan was married first to a woman named Mary-Ann Alice, who died on March 19, 1898. He had one child with Mary-Ann, a daughter born in 1890... Read More
John H. Perrett
John H. Perrett was the Chairman of the Sandon School Committee, although it is unknown when he occupied this post. Read More
Arthur Acheson-Gray
Arthur Acheson-Gray was a farmer in Ashhurst during the late 1800's and the early 1900's. He was born in Winchester in 1874, and was educated in Reading. He cam... Read More
Arthur Stanhope Aldrich
Arthur Stanhope Aldrich was born in Dublin in 1872. He spent four years in Japan before being sent to Paris to be educated at an Anglo-French College there. In ... Read More
Ronald Tremain
Ronald Tremain was born in Feilding in 1923. He became a distinguished composer and teacher, initially studying piano, he gained Trinity College Diplomas before... Read More
H. M. Monro
H. M. Monro, M.B. Ch.B. F.R.C.S. was a doctor in Feilding during the 1900s. He was born in 1895, and began his practice in 1938, on Kimbolton Road. Read More
James Stanley Tingey
James Stanley Tingey was a member of the Feilding Borough Council from 1882-1883, and again in 1889-1892. He was also Mayor of Feilding from 1921-1925. Read More
William Swainson Marshall
William Swainson Marshall was born in 1852 in Kaiwarra, near Wellington. He was a member of the Masonic craft, and took "a keen interest in all public matters".... Read More
James Brownlee
James Brownlee was born in Kilmarnock, Scotland in 1870. He came to New Zealand with his parents, and was brought up in Oamaru. Brownlee was a farmer for many y... Read More
Lord John Rushworth Jellicoe
Lord John Rushworth Jellicoe was born in Hampshire, England, in 1859. His naval career began in 1872, when he was appointed to the training ship HMS _Britannia_... Read More
George Hart Saywell
George Hart Saywell was Secretary and Captain of the Feilding Football club from to 1889. He also served on the Feilding Borough Council in the years 1894-1898;... Read More
Ernest Short
Ernest Short was born in 1872, in Wellington. After his birth, the family moved to Feilding, and Short was educated in the public schools there, before going in... Read More
David Mackinlay Orr
David Mackinlay Orr was born in 1857 in Glasgow, and came to New Zealand with his parents when he was six years old. The family lived in Wellington for some yea... Read More
William Morton
William Morton was a Yorkshire native, born in 1849. He came to New Zealand in 1870, landing in Wellington before moving to the Rangitikei to gain "colonial exp... Read More
James Joseph Tuohy & Family
Constable James Joseph Tuohy was the officer in charge of the Feilding Police Station from 1889. He was born in County Clare, Ireland, in 1839. His father was a... Read More
Stu Freebairn & C. B. McClure
William Stuart Scott "Stu" Freebairn (left), and Mayor C. B. McClure, shaking hands at a reception held to honor the All Black, who grew up in the Manawatu. Fre... Read More
John Sorley
John Sorley, M. B. & C. M., was born in 1870 in Australia, and was the son of Dr. Henry Sorley. He was educated in Dunedin, and studied medicine at the Edinburg... Read More
William Summers
William Summers was a successful businessman during Feilding's earlier years. He manufactured aerated water and cordial on Gladston Street. The business was sta... Read More
Fairfield Thompson
Fairfield Thompson, former councillor of the Feilding Borough, was a native of Belfast, Ireland. He was born in 1816, and completed his education and cabinetmak... Read More