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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Mr. John Woodhouse

Mr. John Woodhouse, for many years Manager of the Auckland branch of the Bank of New South Wales, was born at Armagh, Ireland, in 1816, and is son of the late Mr. R. Woodhouse. He went to Sydney at an early age, being a passenger on the same vessel that bore the news of Queen Victoria's ascension of the Throne of England. He entered the service of Messrs. Aspinal and Brown with whom he obtained most of his colonial experience. Mr. Woodhouse subsequently removed to Auckland and founded the business he afterwards carried on under the style of Messrs. Woodhouse and Buchanan (Mr. James Buchanan, of Shortland Street, who still survives, being the junior partner); but failing health obliged Mr. Woodhouse to relinquish business. After a short visit to Sydney he returned to Auckland and removed with his wife and family to Patumahoe where he owned a station. At the outbreak of the Maori war, shortly afterwards, he was compelled to make a hasty flight, leaving his possessions to the mercy of the rebels. Mr Woodhouse never returned to Patumahoe, but immediately entered the service of the Bank of New South Wales in Auckland, and was for many years one of the most popular managers of that institution. Rapidly increasing ill-health, however, compelled his resignation and after a lingering illness he died at his residence in Stephen's Avenue in 1882, leaving a widow (daughter of the late Rev. J. T. Churton, LL.B) and eight children. His eldest son Mr. J. F. Woodhouse, is well known in Dunedin as one of the most rising members of the Bar, and his second son Mr. J. H. Woodhouse is the popular station-master at Woodville, Hawke Bay; his eldest daughter was married to the late Mr. Edward Bennett, barrister of Sydney, who was several times an acting Judge, Mr. Woodhouse always took a keen interest in local affairs and was one of the first to move that Auckland Anniversary Day should be commemorated by a regatta. The third son, Mr. R. Woodhouse is a sharebroker, the fourth son, Mr. W. H. Woodhouse was in the Bank of New Zealand for many years, and the fifth, Mr. E. R. Woodhouse is in British Columbia.