Administrator, runholder, politician, provincial superintendent. Was Crown's Protector of Aborigines, Native Land Purchase Commissioner and Minister of Native Affairs. Father of Sir Robert Donald Douglas Maclean (1852-1929). Made KCMG in 1874. According to the DNZB (ibid p 257), "in the tradition of the Ringatu church he is remembered as 'Pharaoh', the one who held them in bondage and took away their lands".
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Date:
1854, nd
From:
Mantell family : Papers
Ref:
MS-Papers-0083-335
Description:
Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 letters).
Date:
9 Mar 1859
From:
McDonnell, Alexander Francis, 1866-1938 : Papers
Ref:
MS-Papers-0151-08-11
Description:
Quantity: 1 leaf (3 pages).
Physical Description: Ms transcript
Date:
1869
By:
Hawthorne, James, active 1869-1877
Ref:
MS-Papers-5805
Description:
Photocopy of a pamphlet written by Hawthorne with pencil annotations possibly by Sir George Grey
Quantity: 1 folder(s) (21 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres.
Phy...
By:
McGlashen, Stewart, active 19th century; McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877
Ref:
B-046-006
Description:
Paper embossed: Stewart McGlashen, Sculptors, Canonmill Bridge, Edinburgh
Note on front: From McLean papers.
Quantity: 1 drawing(s).
Physical Description...
From:
Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Ref:
Micro-MS-Coll-20-2775
Description:
Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Date:
1848
Ref:
MapColl-832.41gbbd/1848/Acc.29009
Description:
Shows the River Wanganui, the Waitotara line, Motu Haraka, Wilson's Bluff and the various settlement blocks.
True copy reduced from original map
Notes on ...
Date:
May-Sep 1881
From:
Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers
Ref:
MS-Papers-1784-100
Description:
Language - Letter in Maori with translation
Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Plan of allotments on Ferry Road, Christchurch; sale 21 May 1881 by H Matson & Co
Date:
Jul-Dec 1870
From:
Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers
Ref:
MS-Papers-1784-057
Description:
Most correspondents identified; also includes letter from J or I Ford, Anama Station and peition of Heathcote electors, Prebbleton, calling for a political m...
Date:
1924-1951
From:
New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
Ref:
PAColl-0785-1-207
Description:
Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1920s-1950s. Names of subjects entered in Name Field.
Photographs of the homes of the McL...
Date:
1863
By:
Illustrated London news (Newspaper)
Ref:
PUBL-0033-1863-436
Description:
A meeting in a pa with Maori and European men and women. A Maori man in the foreground is addressing the large group of attendees
The meeting took place at ...
Date:
1852?
By:
Te Rauparaha, Tamihana, 1819-1876
Ref:
fMS-Papers-11899
Description:
Contemporary copy of letter in English to McLean (Sir D?), describing visit to England
Source of title - Supplied
Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 leaf). 0.01 Line...
Date:
[1938-1940]
From:
Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers
Ref:
MS-Papers-11310-43
Description:
Drafts and research papers relating to New Zealand history, particularly relating to the New Zealand wars, and New Zealand maritime history, and native bird...
Date:
10 Nov 1853
By:
Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869
Ref:
MS-Papers-3440
Description:
"Report of a journey from the upper part of the Wairarapa Valley, through the valley of the Kopuaranga, to the river Mangatainoka, and back through a part of...
Date:
1849, 1922
By:
Matheson, D (Major), active 1922-1931
Ref:
MS-Papers-2779
Description:
Copy of a story relating to the Rangitikei purchase, especially concerning Donald McLean, told by local Maori; with covering note by EB and photograph of a d...
Date:
1869-1910
From:
Maori Purposes Fund Board : Papers
Ref:
MS-Papers-0189-B012
Description:
Letter book with copies of letters re land issues in the Wairarapa district, letters about the establishment of a school at Papawai, letters about the procee...
Date:
1852
From:
Pearse, John 1808-1882 :[Album. 1851-1856]
Ref:
E-455-f-035/036-5
Description:
A letter to Donald McLean in Wellington from Ihaia, with Maori text and an English translation. The letter concerns the management of land at Waitara. In add...
Date:
[ca 1870]
By:
McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877
Ref:
MS-Papers-5476
Description:
The letter is a draft refuting accusations by Sir George Grey re McLean's alleged purchasing of Native Reserve Lands in the Hawke's Bay while he was Superint...
Date:
[187-?]
Ref:
PA2-2604
Description:
Portrait of Sir Donald McLean, taken ca 1860s-1870s by an unknown photographer.
Inscriptions: Mount verso - bottom centre - Sir Donald McLean, Native Minist...
Date:
1857
By:
Hawke's Bay Art Gallery and Museum; Scarfe, Alan, active 2002
Ref:
MapColl-832.3gbbd/1857/Acc.39062
Description:
Map of Donald McLean's farm property, named Maraekakahu [Maraekakaho] Run, showing several numbered blocks, Crown land within the Run, and the neighbouring p...
Date:
[ca 1843-1873]
By:
Hamilton, William John Warburton, 1825-1883
Ref:
MS-Papers-10936
Description:
Research notes compiled by S V Robinson, including correspondence, diaries, extracts from GBPP, newspaper cuttings and official correspondence (including let...
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