Acting Superintendent and Speaker of the Provincial Council in New Plymouth. Born in 1816, in Cornwall, England. Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in England. Came to New Zealand with his family on the ship 'Sir Edward Paget' in Feb 1851. New Plymouth sub-agent for the Liverpool and London Fire and Life Insurance Company
Humphries, Edward Larwill (Dr), 1816-1869
Liverpool and London Fire and Life Insurance Company, Wellington agents - Inward corres...
Date: 1854-1865
From: Levin & Company Ltd : Records
Reference: MS-Papers-1347-6/4/4
Description: Correspondents include: John Gell, 1859; C E Gold, 1857-1858; Alex Gray, 1857; Major J Gray, 1854; Edward Hackett, 1858; Robert Hart, 1855-1857; John Higginson, 1857; J F Hoggard, 1858; Abraham Hort Snr, 1859; John Hoskins, 1855; Edward Larwill Humphries (New Plymouth sub-agent) - Correspondence, list of policy holders, accounts, 1859-1865; A Hunt, 1859 Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Thomas King - Papers relating to his election to Taranaki Provincial Council
Date: [1856-1861]
From: King family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-5641-43
Description: Comprises political jingle, privately printed, against William Halse and his party, which mentions Hone Heke, Thomas King, Billy Bayly, Charles Brown anfd others (nd); New Plymouth `Gazette' 28 Aug 1856; Taranaki Provincial Council Session XVII 1869, correspondence relative to the proposed lease of the beach to Mr Henochsberg and others; draft memorial to the House of Representatives by the Provincial Council of New Plymouth adopted unanimously 19 May 1858; Waiwakaiho bridge contract invoice; council paper 6 Nov 1860; appointment of King to Waste Lands committee; letter from T T Latimer re commands; circulars; letters, C W Richmond, Charles A Brown (1856); petition re by election (1856); draft of order of choice certificate (1854); apology from Alfred W Best (1857); Justice of the Peace appointment (1856); correspondence re accommodation of troops in New Plymouth (1860) and other notes Quantity: 1 folder(s).