Canadian High Commissioner to New Zealand 1953-1955. He was born in Japan to Methodist missionaries, but was educated in Canada. In 1935 he married Irene Clark and held university teaching posts. He returned to Japan in 1940 as an employee of Canadian External Affairs, in the Canadian Legation in Tokyo. It was here that he was interned from December 1941, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, until mid-1942. He died in Cairo in 1957 after a leap from a rooftop.
Norman, Egerton Herbert (Dr), 1909-1957
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Newsclippings on Ambassador Herbert Norman's suicide and articles in the New Zealand Li...
Date: 1957, 1958-1959, 2 Oct 1971
From: Turnovsky, Fred, 1916-1994 : Papers
Reference: 91-232-1/14
Description: Also includes speech notes and newsclippings for Hansells Prize for Sculpture (2 October 1971) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Architectural Centre Gallery :On Monday June 27th 1955, at 5.15 pm., an exhibition of J...
Date: 1955
From: [Posters of A3 size promoting artists, art awards, art sales and art exhibitions. 1950-1975]
Reference: Eph-C-ARTS-1955-01
Description: Poster shows an illustration of a Japanese woman in traditional clothing, including a kimono. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screen print on brown paper, 445 x 220 mm.
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Canadian High Commissioner, Mr E H Norman, Mayor of Lower Hutt, Mr Percy Dowse and Mr K...
Date: 1955
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: EP/1955/2548-F
Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 6.5 x 6.5 cm