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Flora Hursthouse & Maurice Wilson Richmond

Flora Hursthouse McDonald (b: 17 Feb 1862 in Parnell, Auckland; daughter of Helen and Alexander Macdonald; d: 29 May 1926)

She mar: 12 May 1887 at Bishopdale Chapel, Nelson  Maurice Wilson Richmond (b: 26 Apr 1860 in Nelson to parents James Crowe Richmond (1822-1898) and Mary Smith (1834-1865); •Education: BSc LLB; •Occ: Barrister and later a professor of law at Victoria College •Occ: Solicitor  d: 26 Feb 1919; bur: St Paul's Anglican Churchyard, Papanui)
 

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).
Promoted to Major on 25 January 1917 (Studholme 1928).
Officer Commanding of 9th Battery, NZ Field Artillery, August 1918 (Haigh & Polaschek 1993).
Captain and Brigade Major of NZ Divisional Artillery, 1916 (Haigh & Polaschek 1993).
Appointed Commanding Officer, 2nd (Army) Brigade, NZ Field Artillery, on 27 October 1918 as Lieutenant Colonel (appointment not ratified) and killed the same day (Haigh & Polaschek 1993).
"While military secretary and A.D.C. to General Godley, had official information of the Governments decision to call for volunteers for service abroad, and immediately decided to place his name at the head of the list. Leaving with the Main Body on October 16th, 1914, Acting-Adjutant to the O.C. Artillery as well as the ship, he was among the first to land at Anzac Cove on April 25th, and the last to leave on December 20th. He received his promotion to Captain on July 26th, and was appointed Brigade Major in the following September, gaining his majority on February 5th, 1917. Early in August he was put in charge of the 9th Battery N.Z.F.A., being killed by a 5.9 shell on October 27th, 1918, when in temporary charge of a brigade, and buried at Solemnes the following day. Many tributes have been paid from those in a position to know his true character, among them one from the Minister of Defence, who spoke of his distinguished record as one which his family, the people of New Zealand, and the N.Z.E.F. might justly be proud. He died at the entrance to his new headquarters, a ruined cottage adjacent to the batteries. So complete were his orders and instructions that they were preserved for future reference, being considered models of excellence worthy of study by any future artillery officer wishing to gain a thorough knowledge of modern warfare." (In Memoriam, 1914-1918 [Wanganui Collegiate School])

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)

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 Hilary Wall who d: 1962)