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Hursthouse McDonald (b: 17 Feb 1862 in Parnell, Auckland; daughter of Helen and Alexander Macdonald; d: 29 May 1926) The firm of
Messrs. Martin and Richmond was established in 1892; but both partners
were well and favourably known in Wellington and other parts of the Colony
before that date. Mr. Richmond is a son of Mr. J. C. Richmond,. He was a
law student with Messrs. Fell and Atkinson, of Nelson from 1880 to 1883,
and was admitted a barrister and solicicitor of the Supreme Court of New
Zealand in August, 1883. For some time Mr. Richmond held the appointment
of secretary to the late Judge Richmond, his uncle; and in 1884 he entered
into partnership in Wellington with his cousin, the eldest son of the late
Judge, Mr. Christopher Richmond, now of New Plymouth. The firm of Messrs.
Richmond and Richmond continued until 1891.
Mr. Richmond
holds the offices of solicitor to the Wellington District Law Society, and
Law Reporter to the New Zealand Council of Law Reporting, for the Supreme
Court in Wellington, and the Court of Appeal. He also compiled and edited
"The New Zealand Digest" issued by the Council of Law Reporting in 1894.
Besides their various legal appointments, Messrs Martin and Richmond
conduct a growing general business. Mr. Martin is also solicitor for the
Municipal Association and for the Counties
Association. Poverty Bay Herald, 7 Oct 1919:
Norman Macdonald Richmond, who has been -appointed by the selection
committee as this year's Rhodes scholar! was bom on October 23, 1897. He
is a son of the late Mr. W. M. Richmond, Profesor of English and New
ZeaJand law at Victoria College, Wellington. Until 1911,and latterly until
his death early this year, a barrister in Christchurch. Young
Richmond' was educated at the Terrace. School, Welliihgton, and
subsequently at the Wellington and Nelson College. He won the junior
Education Board Scholarship in l9l2 being fourth on the list of successful
.candidates. He won the Canterbury College prizes in mathematics in 1915,
1916 and 1917, winning the Senior University Scholarship in applied
mathematics in 1917. Richmond is the holder of many prizes for sports,
especially gymnastics, swimming and drill. He is captain of the Canterbury
College football fifteen, secretary of the College dialetic society,
vice-president of the Students' Association, and editor of the Canterbury
College Review. He served with the First Battery, N.Z.F.A., in the
war, enlisting in October, 1917, and returning in June this year. He was
the heavy-weight, boxing champion of the Thirty-seventh Reinforcements in
Trentham, and played for the First Battery, N.Z.F.A., football team in
France and Germany. Their
three children: 1. James Macdonald Richmond b: 17 Apr 1888 in Wanganui;
Occ: Major in WW1 d: 27 Oct 1918 in WW1 Le Cateau, France
Biographical
Notes: Gained Lieutenant's commission on 5 August 1914 (Studholme
1928). 2. Helen Macdonald Richmond b: 21 Nov 1890 in
Wellington Occupation: Teacher, university lecturer, writer d: 06 Nov 1960
in Christchurch mar: 27 Jan 1927 in Eastbourne, Wellington
to Arthur
Barrows Simpson (b: 1896 Ealing, Middlesex - his parents Harry
Simpson and Rose Barrow; Occ: schoolmaster; d: Oct 1959 in
Christchurch)
3 Norman Macdonald Richmond b: 23 Oct 1897 in
Wellington d: 13 Jul 1971 in Wellington, survived by four children) He
mar: 1 Jun 1926 in Christchurch to |