Arthur Edgar Gravenor Rhodes (1859 -1922)

Arthur Edgar Gravenor Rhodes (1859 -1922)     Died of natural causes   Place of Death: Christchurch * Was the first New Zealand born person to be elected into the House of Representatives. * Father of Rose Mairehau Hutton who is now remembered in the naming of the suburb ‘Mairehau’. * Chairman of the ‘New Zealand Shipping …

SCARBOROUGH – The Rhodes Brothers

There is very little about the earliest days of Scarborough or who named it as such.  What follows is the puzzle I have put together with the few clues left me. George Rhodes arrived at Lyttelton Harbour in 1843 to become an overseer and partner of his elder brother – William Barnard Rhodes – who …