Incumbents

Events

29 November – Alfred Nesbitt Brown arrives in Paihia. He is the third ordained minister in New Zealand.^[1]

James Farrow, the first trader known to have frequented the Tauranga area, arrives for the first time.^[2] (see also 1838)
A whaling station is established at Preservation Inlet on the south-west corner of the South Island by Captain William Anglem.^[3]^[4]

14 February (in England): Richard Burgess, murderer.^[5]
31 March (in England): Maria Rye, social reformer.^[6]
30 April (in Germany): Ferdinand von Hochstetter, geologist.^[7]
22 July: William Leonard Williams, Māori language scholar and Bishop of Waiapu.^[8]
26 November (in England): Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore, Governor of New Zealand.^[9]

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^ New Zealand Encyclopaedia 1966: Brown Biography
^ "Tauranga City History". Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 11 October 2007.
^ Wises New Zealand Guide, 7th Edition, 1979. p. 356
^ It has also been suggested that the station was established in 1828 by Peter Williams. See New Zealand Encyclopaedia 1966: Shore-based whaling
^ Hill, Richard S. "Burgess, Richard 1829 - 1866". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
^ Dictionary of Canadian Biography
^ Fleming, C. A. "Hochstetter, Christian Gottlieb Ferdinand von 1829 - 1884". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
^ Porter, Frances. "Williams, William Leonard 1829 - 1916". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
^ "Gordon, Arthur Hamilton". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
^ Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.
^ Born to New Zealand: A Biography of Jane Maria Atkinson by Frances Porter (1989, Allen & Unwin/Port Nicholson Press, Wellington) ISBN 978-0-04-614008-3

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