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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Canterbury Provincial District]

Mr. Robert Fitzroy Holderness

Mr. Robert Fitzroy Holderness, who was for many years Inspectorin-Charge of the North Canterbury District under the Stock Department, was born in 1842, in Hampshire, England, where he was educated. He came, in 1856, by the ship “Westminster,” to Wellington, whence he moved to Lyttelton, and has ever since been a settler in the Middle Island. Mr. Holderness spent the first nine years of his colonial life in Otago, and was connected with the Stock Department, in Canterbury from 1865 till June, 1902. He originally joined the public service under the Provincial Government of Canterbury, but was transferred to the General Government with the Department in 1876. Mr. Holderness was married, in 1875, to a daughter of the late Dr. Coward, of Christchurch, and has seven sons and four daughters.