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About Mary Glover Bibby
https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22429110
Tod, Mary Glover, 1867-1936
Artist, committee member for Country Women's Institute. Born Mary Glover Tod in Scotland. Educated at North London Collegiate. Left England in 1891 on S. S. Austral sailing to Colombo. Married James Bibby in Melbourne in 1892. Sailed to New Zealand on SS Oroya in 1893. Settled in Hawkes Bay. She kept sketchbooks of shipboard life, and painted and drew in a range of media. She served on the first Executive Committee of the Country Women's Institute, and wrote the words for the CWI song 'Comrades and Friends'. With a daughter, she made a year-long cruise aboard the S. S. Moultan in 1929, again keeping sketchbooks of her travels. She died at Kairakau, Central Hawkes Bay.
https://www.waipawa.com/mary-glover-bibby/
Mary Glover Bibby (nee Tod) was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland on 3 March 1867.
Her father, John Tod, was a sea captain of a Scottish based whaling business and when the whaling business struck hard times, he packed himself up, left his wife of ten years, and immigrated to New Zealand.
He left his wife Anne in Scotland, to raise three small children on her own.
Mary and her family moved three times before she was six years old, possibly because her mother was dependant on the support of her extended family. They ended up living in London.
Mary attended four different schools between the ages of five and eleven, but from the age of 11 – 17½ Mary was fortunate to attend the famous North London Collegiate School. It was while she was at this elite school that she had formal art lessons.
When she left school Mary wanted to take up missionary work, but her health was poor, so she settled instead to doing charitable work in the slums of London.
During this time her health suffered, and after a spell of illness her doctors advised a long sea voyage.
She was fortunate having two uncles Robert Tod and James Tod who both lived in Otane (then known as Kaikoura). So she set sail for New Zealand to stay with them.
On her journey across the ocean she often sketched the scenes around her and she faithfully kept a diary of her day.
She arrived in Kaikoura at the end of April 1891. She found New Zealand vastly different from the streets of London which she had left behind.
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Mary Glover Bibby's Timeline
| 1867 |
March 3, 1867
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Dysart, Fife, Scotland (United Kingdom)
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| 1894 |
February 23, 1894
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Waipawa, Central Hawke's Bay District, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
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| 1896 |
March 17, 1896
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Waipawa, Central Hawke's Bay District, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
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| 1898 |
January 30, 1898
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Waipawa, Central Hawke's Bay District, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
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| 1899 |
1899
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Waipawa, Central Hawke's Bay District, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
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| 1903 |
February 19, 1903
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Waipawa, Central Hawke's Bay District, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
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| 1904 |
October 6, 1904
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Waipawa, Central Hawke's Bay District, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
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| 1910 |
August 6, 1910
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Waipawa, Central Hawke's Bay District, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
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| 1937 |
February 1, 1937
Age 69
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Kairakau, Central Hawke's Bay District, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
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