…The Lastest Colonial Baby… – Edward Merson Templar (1820 – 1897)

“Have you not heard of the birth of the latest colonial baby?   Bishops and Bigwigs in at the accouchment – [Edward]Gibbon Wakefield (owner of the New Zealand Company) the monthly nurse – the new Canterbury Pilgrimage born with a flourish of trumpets and laying on of hands”. Edward Merson Templar (now remembered in the naming …