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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

Mr. Archibald Davidson Sommerville

Mr. Archibald Davidson Sommerville, the Acting Manager of the Bank of New Zealand in Wellington, was born in 1853 in Fifeshire, Scotland, where he was educated, his father being a distinguished Mr. Archibald Davidson Sommerville clergyman of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Sommerville got his first mercantile experience in the establishment of one of the oldest and most prominent commercial houses in Dundee. His first banking experience was in the service of the Oriental Bank. In 1880 Mr. Sommerville entered the service of the Bank of New Zealand, and in the following year he was transferred to the then head office of the Bank in Auckland. Soon after he was appointed agent of the Bank at Te Aro, Wellington, where he remained till 1886, when he went to Fiji to take charge of the Bank's business in that colony. After a long residence there of nine years he returned to New Zealand, arriving in January, 1895. After a short holiday, he was appointed manager at Napier, and in December of the same year took up the duties of his present office. Mr. Sommerville is married, and has two daughters and one son.