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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]
Mr. William Sefton Moorhouse
Mr. William Sefton Moorhouse, who was Mayor of Wellington from December, 1874, to December, 1875, was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1825, and was educated for the law. In 1851 he came to the Colony, settling in Canterbury. Here he soon came prominently before the public. It was not long before he was a member of the Canterbury Provincial Council, and in 1857 he was elected superintendent of the province. The work for which he will ever be remembered—the Lyttelton Tunnel—was in full swing long before the 1861 election, when Mr. Moorhouse was again returned by an overwhelming majority. Fuller particulars of this gentleman's interesting career will be given in the Canterbury volume of the Cyclopedia. All that page 288 need be said here is that Mr. Moorhouse passed his later years in Wellington, where he died on the 15th of September, 1881, at his residence in Molesworth Street. He was buried in the Riccarton Churchyard, near Christchurch, on the 17th of the same month.