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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Crawford, Henry Beloe

Crawford, Henry Beloe , Barrister and Solicitor, Tyne Street, Oamaru. Telephone 51. P.O. Box 10. Bankers, Trust Account, Bank of New South Wales; Business Account, National Bank of New Zealand, Ltd. Agents, John Wilkinson, Zealandia Chambers, Dowling Street, and W. D. Milne, High Street, Dunedin; C. Palairet, Christchurch; Messrs Yarde and Loader, 1 Raymond Buildings, Gray's Inn, W.C., London. Private residence, “Ardgowan,” midway between Oamaru and Weston. Mr. Crawford was born at “Corinella” Western-Port, Victoria, in 1860, and in a son of Captain James Field Crawford who arrived in in Lyttelton with his family in 1865, and after residing in Christchurch removed to Timaru as lessee and manager of the Timaru lightering service. He was educated, first, at Christchurch High school; then at Timaru public school and grammar school, and finally at the Oamaru District High school, which he left in December, 1876, to enter, under articles, the office of the Hon. T. W. Hislop. After serving articles for six years, and under-going examinations for barrister and solicitor, he was admitted by Mr. Justice Williams in 1882. Mr. Crawford was managing clerk for Messrs Hislop and Creagh till 1886, when he founded his practice in Oamaru. In 1887 he established a business on the Otago goldfields, and worked Central Otago from Naseby, where he and Mr. William Kerr opened an office in partnership, under the style of Crawford and Kerr. He disposed of his interest in that business in 1889 to Mr. Kerr, and retained the Oamaru practice. Mr. Crawford is solicitor to the Hampden Borough Council, the Pukeuri Dairy Factory Company, the Filleul trusts, the Anglican Church trustees, Dalzell's trustees, and other bodies, besides carrying on a practice over an area extending from Palmerston in Otago to Waimate in Canterbury, and embracing the Maerewhenua goldfields, Kurow, Hampden, and outlying districts. He also appears at Dunedin, where he takes his own Supreme Court work on both the civil and criminal sides of the Court. He acts as agent for the Imperial Fire Office, and he is an Oddfellow, attached to the Alfred Lodge, of which he is a past noble grand; he has been connected with the various athletic clubs in the district, and served for seven years as an efficient member of the I Battery New Zealand Regiment, Artillery Volunteers. Mr. Crawford was married, in 1888, at Wellington, to Jessie Borgue, second daughter of Mr. James Liddle, formerly of Bendigo, Victoria, and has two daughters and three sons.