Other formats

    TEI XML file   ePub eBook file  

Connect

    mail icontwitter iconBlogspot iconrss icon

The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Nelson, Marlborough & Westland Provincial Districts]

Mr. Henry Redwood

Mr. Henry Redwood , who is best known throughout New Zealand as the Father of the Turf, on account of his early and long continued labours on behalf of horse racing, is one of the oldest living colonists in Marlborough. He was born about eighty-three years ago at the village of Ticksell, in Staffordshire, England, and came out with his parents in one of the first ships in 1842. His father, the late Henry Redwood, was one of the first, and one of the most courageous, of the pioneer stationholders, both in Nelson and Marlborough, and did a great deal towards opening up the country and popularising it as a sheepraising area. For many years the family farmed on the Waimea, and in 1863 Mr. Redwood took up a large farm at Spring Creek, where two vears later he also established a flour mill. In 1870, however, his two sons took over the whole property, and Mr. Redwood has since lived a comparatively quiet life, and now (1905) resides with his brother in Blenheim. Mr. Redwood was at one time extensively engaged in the importation and training of horses, and he brought several shipments of thoroughbred stock to New Zealand. He also took a keen interest in political affairs during his earlier years, and for some time was a fellow member with the late Mr. Alfred Saunders, of the Executive of the Nelson Provincial Council.