Frederick Weld By Jeanine Graham. SIGNED BY AUTHOR
Frederick Weld By Jeanine Graham. SIGNED BY AUTHOR
Hard-back, with dust jacket very good condition
225 pages Other Information: frontispiece, halftones, maps Published In: New Zealand, 01 September 1985
Illustrated biography of Weld (1823-91) colonial adventurer, pastoralist and politician who was New Zealand prime minister in 1864-5.
Frederick Aloysius Weld, third son of Humphrey Weld and Maria Christina Clifford, daughter of Charles, sixth Lord Clifford of Chudleigh, was born and baptised at Chideock Manor, near Bridport, Dorset, England, on 9 May 1823. His ancestry was distinguished and its religion pervasive.
