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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

The Rev. D. W. Runciman

The Rev. D. W. Runciman, M.A., Registrar of the Auckland University College, was born in Edinburgh on the 26th of June. 1837. A son of the Rev. David Runciman, D.D., of St. Andrew's Parish, Glasgow, he was educated at the Glasgow High School and University, graduating as M.A. in 1860. Four years later he was ordained minister of the parish of Leslie in the county of Fife. In 1876 Mr. Runciman was advised to try this Colony in search of health, and accordingly sailed for Auckland in the ship “Jessie Osborne.” In the following February he was appointed to the charge of St. Stephen's Presbyterian Church, Ponsonby, which position he held until 1889, when he retired and settled on a farm of some seventy acres at East Tamaki, where the reverend gentleman spent about five years in peaceful retirement, keeping up his interest in the cause of education as a useful member of the Papatoetoe school committee. Mr. Runciman was married in 1866 to Miss Isabella Agatha Leishman, daughter of the Rev. Matthew Leishman, D.D., of Govan, near Glasgow. Of thirteen children, five sons and four daughters survive. The eldest son, Mr. Matthew Leishman Runciman, is resident in Buenos Ayres, in partnership with an uncle under the style of Messrs. Runciman and Co., merchants. Mr. Runciman was appointed Registrar of Auckland University College on the 1st of September, 1894.