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About George Duppa
George Duppa was born in 1819 at Hillingbourne House near Maidstone in Kent. He was the fifth and youngest son of Baldwin Duppa and of Mary, daughter of Major-General Gladwyn.
In May 1839, for £800, George Duppa purchased from the New Zealand Company in London eight properties in Wellington, each comprising one town acre and 100 country acres. Eight months later he arrived at Port Nicholson in the Oriental to find that, owing to a delay in the surveys, he was unable to receive all his land. Indeed, he found ultimately that his order of choice of sections could not be exercised at all, as the only land to which it could refer was situated in the Wairarapa, a district which, at that time, had not been purchased from the natives. In spite of this, with a group of other Kentish men, he immediately began clearing land on the west bank of the Hutt River about 1 mile from the sea. Some weeks later, following a river flood, an earthquake, and a disastrous fire which destroyed settlers' dwellings in nearby “Cornish Row”, Duppa moved to Oriental Bay, Wellington, and there erected the prefabricated house that he had brought out from England.
In February 1841, in London, Duppa's elder brother Bryan wrote a now famous letter to the New Zealand Company suggesting the foundation of a second, larger settlement. The directors adopted this plan (with slight modifications) and advised the principal agent in Wellington of their intention to name this second colony Nelson. In June 1841 Colonel Wakefield requested George Duppa to accompany Captain E. Daniell in the Bailey to observe and report upon the country and harbours in and near Banks Peninsula with a view to selecting a site for Nelson. Duppa ascended the Avon for 8 miles from its mouth, but Captain Daniell's promising report on the suitability of Port Cooper and its hinterland was disapproved of by Governor Hobson. The company finally directed the settlement to Blind Bay (now Tasman Bay).
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/1966/duppa-george
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- Burke, Bernard, Sir. A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland 6th ed. London : Harrison 1879. Vol I. page 493
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George Duppa's Timeline
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1819
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Hillingbourne House near Maidstone, Kent, England (United Kingdom)
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November 7, 1871
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January 5, 1888
Age 69
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