Henry Samuel Chapman
Australian and New Zealand judge and politician
About Henry Samuel Chapman
Lived 1803 – 1881 (aged 78). Henry Samuel Chapman was a New Zealand politician, farmer, botanical collector and chief Secretary (British Empire).
Henry Samuel Chapman (21 July 1803 – 27 December 1881) was an Australian and New Zealand judge, colonial secretary, attorney-general, journalist and politician.
Early life Chapman was born at Kennington, London, the son of Henry Chapman, English civil servant, and his wife Ann, daughter of Rev. Thomas Hart Davies. Chapman was educated privately at Bromley, Kent. In 1818, he entered a bank, then in 1823 emigrated to Quebec, Canada where he went into business as a commission merchant. In 1833 he started the first Canadian daily newspapers, the radical Montreal Daily Advertiser, in association with Samuel Revans.
In 1835, Chapman returned to England.
He was also involved with the University of Otago and the Otago Institute. Chapman retired in 1875 taking up commerce and sheep farming in Central Otago, he died of cancer in Dunedin, New Zealand.
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Australian and New Zealand judge and politician (1803-1881)
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Henry Samuel Chapman was born on 21 July 1803 in Kennington.
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Henry Samuel Chapman died on 27 December 1881 in Dunedin, New Zealand.
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Henry Samuel Chapman was a politician, farmer, botanical collector and chief Secretary (British Empire).
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Henry Samuel Chapman was New Zealand.
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