- New Zealand. It was
named after the
River Greta in
Yorkshire by
local runholders Sir
Charles Clifford and Sir
Frederick Weld in the 1850s, but it is to...
- John
Deans (4 May 1820 – 23 June 1854) was,
together with his
brother William, a
pioneer farmer in Canterbury, New Zealand. He was born in Kirkstyle, Riccarton...
- and
Molesworth stations which had been
amalgamated in 1938
after the
runholders "walked off" the land. The
three stations had once run
around 95,000 head...
-
September 1889), also
known as
Ready Money Robinson, was a New
Zealand runholder and
member of the New
Zealand Legislative Council.
Robinson was born in...
- Land fell to half its
former value and was
impossible to realise, many
runholders and
businessmen were
ruined and the
working classes were
unable to purchase...
-
Thomas Henry Wigley (1825 – 17 June 1895) was a
runholder in New Zealand. Born in England, he came to New
Zealand via
Australia in 1860. He was a member...
- John
Cargill (1821 – 2
January 1898) was a New
Zealand politician and
runholder.
Cargill was born in 1821; he was the son of
William Cargill, one of Otago's...
- land on the
Canterbury Plains had been
taken up already.
Established runholders did not take them seriously, and some
laughed at them for
wanting to take...
- land on the
Canterbury Plains had been
taken up already.
Established runholders did not take them seriously, and some
laughed at them for
wanting to take...
- the
Victorian gold rush by
supplying the
goldfields region,
becoming runholders. In 1852, the
brothers purchased the
Ashfield run
adjacent to the Waimakariri...
