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Every Maclean

1819 – 1901

New Zealand politician

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About Every Maclean

Lived 1819 – 1901 (aged 81–82). Every Maclean was a farmer, politician and cattle rancher.

Thomas Every Maclean (1819 – 11 August 1901) was a 19th-century New Zealand politician and farmer.

Thomas Every Maclean was born in 1819 in Cornwall. He came to New Zealand in the 1850s. For the Invasion of the Waikato, he raised a corps that became known as the Howick Cavalry Volunteers; Maclean was the corps' captain. or 1869 (sources differ), they were the first to import Hereford cattle into New Zealand. The first Hereford sire was called Lord Lovell. The Maclean brothers lived at Bleak House in Howick; Bleakhouse Road in the suburbs of Mellons Bay and Howick commemorates the name.

Every Maclean shifted his interests to farming at Fencourt in the Waikato, in partnership with Thomas Russell and James Williamson. Initially known as Maclean and Co., their enterprise was later known as the Auckland Agricultural Company. When James Bailey took up the management of that company at Fencourt in , Maclean returned to Howick. Later on he and his family had a school named after them built on their family-owned farm called Macleans College.

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Who was Every Maclean?

New Zealand politician

When was Every Maclean born?

Every Maclean was born in 1819.

When did Every Maclean die?

Every Maclean died on 11 August 1901 in Howick.

What was Every Maclean's occupation?

Every Maclean was a farmer, politician and cattle rancher.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Every Maclean

· Wikidata: Q17053434

· DBpedia: Every Maclean

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