Discover The Delights Of Peeling Back History
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What An Event!!!!
I can never look at a view of our beautiful Lyttelton Harbour without looking for the ‘Charlotte Jane’ to come sailing around the corner of the heads – just like she would have done on the 16th December 1850, carrying the first of our Anglican settlers. So would have loved to have seen that historic …
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ADDINGTON AND SUMNER – Dr. John Bird Sumner (1780 – 1863)
Addington in South London was an 18th century mansion that housed 7 Archbishops including Dr. John Bird Sumner.Born in Henilworth, he was educated at Eton College and King’s College. Ordained in 1802, he was consecrated as Bishop of Chester in 1828. In 1848, Sumner became the president of the Canterbury Association and the Archbishop of …
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Catherine Wilson Lovell-Smith nee Malcolm – Kate Sheppard (1848- 1934)
Catherine Wilson Lovell-Smith nee Malcolm – Kate Sheppard (1848- 1934) Died of old age Place of Death: Christchurch World Famous Suffragette. Buried in Addington Cemetery, Christchurch The story of Kate Sheppard: http://www.peelingbackhistory.co.nz/catherine-wilson-lovell-smith-nee-malcolm-kate-sheppard-1847-1934/ Photo taken by Annette Bulovic
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Catherine Wilson Lovell-Smith nee Malcolm – Kate Sheppard (1848- 1934)
For world famous suffragette, Kate Sheppard, the following comment did little to put her off her ambitions… “…recommended to go home, look after their children, cook their husbands’ dinners, empty the slobs and generally attend to domestic affairs for which nature designed them; they should stop meddling in masculine concerns at which they are profoundly …
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