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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Mr. George Richardson
Mr. George Richardson , President of the Dunedin Theosophical Society, was born in Kurnaul, Northern India, in 1842, and is the only son of the late Sir John L. C. Richardson, who is repeatedly referred to in other pages of this work. He was educated at Henley-on-Thames, England, and in 1856 arrived in Dunedin in company with his father and sister. For some years he was engaged in farming in the South Molyneaux district, and in 1871 he went to Fiji, where for seven years he was interested in the cotton planting industry. In 1878 Mr. Richardson returned to Dunedin, and has since lived in retirement in the city. He devotes a large amount of his leisure to the study of theosophy.