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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Mr. Henry Clayton Brewer

Mr. Henry Clayton Brewer, Registrar of the Supreme Court and Sheriff of the district of Auckland, also Registrar and Marshal of the Colonial Court of Admiralty at Auckland, has been in the service about twenty-five years. His parents were among the first European residents of the Bay of Islands, and left that district in consequence of Hone Heke's wars. His father, Mr. Charles Babington Brewer, was admitted as a barrister of the Inner Temple in 1838, and was one of the commissioners appointed by the Government to enquire into and report on the Wairau Massacre. Subsequently, after practising his profession in Tasmania and Victoria, he was appointed a Judge of the County Court at Geelong, Victoria, which post he held till his death in January, 1868. Mr. H. C. Brewer was born at New Town, Tasmania, in 1850, and spent the first eighteen years of his life in Tasmania and Victoria, receiving the principal portion of his education at the Church of England Grammar School, Geelong. In February, 1868, he received the appointment of secretary to his uncle, the late Mr. Justice Chapman, at Dunedin, and in 1872 was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. In 1875 he entered the service of the General Government as a clerk in the Resident Magistrate's Court at Oamaru; ten months afterwards he was promoted to a clerkship in the Magistrate's Court. Dunedin, and in the following year was raised to the position of clerk of the Magistrate's Court, McLaggan Street, Dunedin; subsequently, in December of the same year, he received the appointment of Receiver of Gold Revenue at Naseby, on the Otago Goldfields. In February, 1879, Mr. Brewer was appointed Deputy Registrar and Deputy Sheriff at Dunedin, which position he held until June, 1881, when he received his present appointments. His first wife, who died in 1886, was Miss Haggitt, of Dunedin, by whom he had seven children. His second wife is a daughter of the Rev. Griffith Jones, Presbyterian minister at Waipu, Auckland, by whom he has one child.