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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Canterbury Provincial District]

Mr. William Gibson Inman

Mr. William Gibson Inman was placed on the roll of the Justices of the Peace when the Hon. W. Rolleston was Superintendent of Canterbury, and was sworn in under the late Mr. Watson, Resident Magistrate of Akaroa. He is a son at Mr. Thomas Gibson Inman, barrister, and was born at Bath, England, in 1840. Mr. Inman left England in the latter part of 1859, by the ship “Roman Emperor,” and reached Lyttelton in January of the following year. As a cadet on a sheep station he soon gained valuable experience, and he afterwards acquired a farm at German Bay, Akaroa, where he carried on sheep and cattle farming successfully for about eighteen years. Mr. Inman then bought the Rockwood station, near Albury, where he remained for about ten years, at the end of which he disposed of the properly and retired from active life. He was a passenger in the opening run of the first coach service between Little River and Akaroa. Mr. Inman served as a member of the first Akaroa Road Board, and also on school committees in South Canterbury. He has resided at Fendalton for some years. Mr. Inman is married to a daughter of a very early colonist, Mr. Thomas Dicken, of French Farm, Akaroa, and has one son and two daughters.