Alington, George Hildebrand, 1850-1905

Date: 1869 - 1872

From: Alington family :[Assorted watercolours, lithographs, sketches and curios, either by or belonging to family members. ca 1833-1961]

By: Alington, George Hildebrand, 1850-1905

Reference: A-446-050

Description: Shows a view of what would appear to be part of Jask station. The building or buildings shown are clay in colour, with flat roofs and screens around windows. The top of a high wall can be seen in the foreground and the virtually barren landscape stretches into the distance. George Hildebrand Alington was in the Persian Gulf between 1869 and 1872, when he came out to New Zealand aboard the Crusader. Jask is a port town, about 1,050 miles (1,690 km) south of Tehran, situated on the Gulf of Oman. In 1869 it became the site of an Indo-European Telegraph station at which the overland line from Buehr (Bushire) and Lenga met the submarine cables coming from Karachi (via Gwadar) and Aden. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil on paper, ca 80 x 173 mm Provenance: Artworks created by the family of Wellington architect William Alington, donated in 2011 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2000 Alington family papers.

Date: 1869 - 1872

From: Alington family :[Assorted watercolours, lithographs, sketches and curios, either by or belonging to family members. ca 1833-1961]

By: Alington, George Hildebrand, 1850-1905

Reference: A-446-052

Description: Shows a view of the city of Jask, with various buildings of differing levels in view. Palm trees can be seen towards the water's edge. A number of ships and smaller vessels are visible out in the bay. George Hildebrand Alington was in the Persian Gulf between 1869 and 1872, when he came out to New Zealand aboard the Crusader. Jask is a port town, about 1,050 miles (1,690 km) south of Tehran, situated on the Gulf of Oman Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil on paper, 69 x 253 mm Provenance: Artworks created by the family of Wellington architect William Alington, donated in 2011 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2000 Alington family papers.

Date: [ca 1885-1910]

From: Alington family :Photographs of Alington and Broadhead families

Reference: PA1-o-1747

Description: Includes - Hester Maud Alington and friend in costume for a Swiss Fair, Christchurch, ca 1910. Hester's sister Winifred Louise Alington in a garden. Hester's mother, Winifred Beatrice Alington with her children, Hester, Louisa, and Edward, ca 1908. Group photograph of the five Tipping sisters, relatives of Hester's mother, whoes mother's maiden name was Tipping. Group photograph of women and girls including Hester and Louisa Alington. Siblings, Hester, Louisa, and Edward at Methven, early 1906, and after the death of their father, George Hildebrand Alington at the end of November 1905. The family with relatives, and a horse and cart, at Seafield. Alington family groups at Seafield including Hester's father, George Hildebrand Alington. Group photographs of a boy and six girls, one of whom is Samoan. Loose cabinet card of a house in Worcester Street, Christchurch, with Grannie Tipping, Aunt Flo, and Louise Dumergue with penny-farthing cycle, in front of house, ca 1885. This album is associated with MS-Papers-11146-23 : Papers relating to Hester Maud Alington. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1869 - 1872

From: Alington family :[Assorted watercolours, lithographs, sketches and curios, either by or belonging to family members. ca 1833-1961]

By: Alington, George Hildebrand, 1850-1905

Reference: A-446-054

Description: Shows a view inland at Bushire. All that can mostly be seen is sand and a ridge of rock formation. There are possibly buildings represented in the far distance, which could be the Indo-European telegraph station built there in the late 1860s. George Hildebrand Alington was in the Persian Gulf between 1869 and 1872, when he came out to New Zealand aboard the Crusader. Bushihr lies in a vast plain running along the coastal region on the Persian Gulf coast of southwestern Iran. Other Titles - Bushihr Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - Bushire Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 86 x 176 mm Provenance: Artworks created by the family of Wellington architect William Alington, donated in 2011 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2000 Alington family papers.

Date: 1857

From: Alington family :Photographs of Alington and Broadhead families

Reference: PA10-100

Description: Ambrotype view of the Rectory, Candlesby, Lincolnshire, England. Three figures in the front garden are, from left - Rev John Alington (1801-1883). George Hildebrand Alington (1850-1905). Gervase O'Brien Alington (1851-1928). Taken February 1857. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) Ambrotype.

Date: [ca 1870]-1897

From: Alington family :Photographs of Alington and Broadhead families

Reference: PA1-q-1300

Description: Album of photographs, ephemera, and documents relating to George Hildebrand Alington's time working for the the Indo-European Telegraph Department in India and Iran, his move to New Zealand, and his family in England and New Zealand. Includes - Views of what are probably telegraph buildings in Jask, Iran (then Persia), on the coast of the Gulf of Oman. Views of the port city of Muscat, capital of Oman. Ruins of the British Residency in Lucknow, India. Telegraph buildings, Karachi, India. Group portraits of George Hildebrand Alington and three of his collegues in the Indo-European Telegraph Department at Karachi labled "Our Mess Oct. 1872." Views of Mumbai (Bombay), India. Views of the Rectory and garden, Candlesby, Lincolnshire, England. House on a farm called Seafield, Canterbury, New Zealand. Triumphal arch erected by the Indo-European Telegraph department for the Viceroy's visit to Karachi, November 1872. Uppingham School Chapel, interior looking east towards the altar. Views of the school house, Uppingham, England. Group photographs of people attending a fancy dress ball, Karachi, India, 1872. George and Charles Alington in New Zealand. Groups of unidentified children, New Zealand. Portraits of members of the Alington family, 1893-1897. Unidentified wedding group in front of a house, late 1880s. Views of architecture and sculpture, Caves of Elephanta, India. Views of the school and other buildings in Uppingham, England. View of the facades of the Alexandra Palace, London, after the fire of June 1873. Alington wedding group in front of a house in England, late 1880s. Memorial to John Wynford Alington. Documents in the album include - Letter recording the termination of George Hildebrand Alington's employment with the Indo-European Telegraph Department dated "Kurrachee, 22 May 1874." Order transferring George Alington to Karachi dated "Bushline Station 16th Dec. 1871." Document certifying that George Alington has been a good employee, and has left the Department at his own request, dated "Kurrachee 22 May 1874." Letter to an editor containing a comic poem farewelling an unidentified person (probably George Alington, as the subject of the poem is giving up being a sahib and relocating to Rakaia, Canterbury, New Zealand). There are also watercolours of English scenes, and Christmas and new year greeting cards. This album is associated with MS-Papers-11146-15, Papers relating to George Hildebrand Alington. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1869 - 1872

From: Alington family :[Assorted watercolours, lithographs, sketches and curios, either by or belonging to family members. ca 1833-1961]

By: Alington, George Hildebrand, 1850-1905

Reference: A-446-047

Description: The verso inscription describes the scene as a 'view from roof of bungalow over west bay at Jask. Two clumps of date palms in distance and hills of Onsedahn [?] to the right. Grease spot in centre. Red figure is unmarried lady. Two blues married [women in blue robes] dittoes bringing water from well.' George Hildebrand Alington was in the Persian Gulf between 1869 and 1872, when he came out to New Zealand aboard the Crusader. Jask is a port town, about 1,050 miles (1,690 km) south of Tehran, situated on the Gulf of Oman This scene would appear to be the right-hand side of a panoramic view of the west bay at Jask; the left-hand side is at A-446-048 Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - [Inscription transcribed in Scope and Contents note] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 176 x 253 mm Provenance: Artworks created by the family of Wellington architect William Alington, donated in 2011 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2000 Alington family papers.

Date: 1869 - 1872

From: Alington family :[Assorted watercolours, lithographs, sketches and curios, either by or belonging to family members. ca 1833-1961]

By: Alington, George Hildebrand, 1850-1905

Reference: A-446-049

Description: Shows a view of the city of Jask, with various buildings of differing levels in view, including what appears to be a mosque. The bay and mountains can be seen in the distance. George Hildebrand Alington was in the Persian Gulf between 1869 and 1872, when he came out to New Zealand aboard the Crusader. Jask is a port town, about 1,050 miles (1,690 km) south of Tehran, situated on the Gulf of Oman Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil on paper, 72 x 169 mm Provenance: Artworks created by the family of Wellington architect William Alington, donated in 2011 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2000 Alington family papers.

Date: 1869 - 1872

From: Alington family :[Assorted watercolours, lithographs, sketches and curios, either by or belonging to family members. ca 1833-1961]

By: Alington, George Hildebrand, 1850-1905

Reference: A-446-037

Description: Shows a simple watercolour sketch of a two-sailed dhow on blue water. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil on paper, 71 x 176 mm Provenance: Artworks created by the family of Wellington architect William Alington, donated in 2011 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2000 Alington family papers.

Date: 1869 - 1872

From: Alington family :[Assorted watercolours, lithographs, sketches and curios, either by or belonging to family members. ca 1833-1961]

By: Alington, George Hildebrand, 1850-1905

Reference: A-446-051

Description: The verso inscription describes the scene as 'Jask station. Three huts on the left are old mat roofs supported on posts under which the tents were pitched when station was being built. They are the remains of a double line of about 15. Flagstaff [with red ensign flag]. Mr Frederick Patten's folly. Superintendents' quarters. Office and billiard room. Clerks' quarters with two cookhouses coming at right angles [line drawing to illustrate this layout]. Landline coming from office. Sketch explains by looking from left hand towards right.' George Hildebrand Alington was in the Persian Gulf between 1869 and 1872, when he came out to New Zealand aboard the Crusader. Jask is a port town, about 1,050 miles (1,690 km) south of Tehran, situated on the Gulf of Oman. In 1869 it became the site of an Indo-European Telegraph station at which the overland line from Buehr (Bushire) and Lenga met the submarine cables coming from Karachi (via Gwadar) and Aden. Inscriptions: Verso - [Inscription transcribed in full in Scope and Contents note] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil on paper, ca 91 x 253 mm Provenance: Artworks created by the family of Wellington architect William Alington, donated in 2011 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2000 Alington family papers.

Date: 1869 - 1872

From: Alington family :[Assorted watercolours, lithographs, sketches and curios, either by or belonging to family members. ca 1833-1961]

By: Alington, George Hildebrand, 1850-1905

Reference: A-446-053

Description: Shows a view either from Jask, or looking towards it, across the water at sunrise or sunset. Two mountains or islands are named as Shum and Kohi Mubarrin. George Hildebrand Alington was in the Persian Gulf between 1869 and 1872, when he came out to New Zealand aboard the Crusader. Jask is a port town, about 1,050 miles (1,690 km) south of Tehran, situated on the Gulf of Oman It is difficult to pinpoint the exact location of this scene, as the place names of Shum and Kohi Mubarrin cannot be sourced. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil on paper, 69 x 253 mm Provenance: Artworks created by the family of Wellington architect William Alington, donated in 2011 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2000 Alington family papers.

Date: 1869 - 1872

From: Alington family :[Assorted watercolours, lithographs, sketches and curios, either by or belonging to family members. ca 1833-1961]

By: Alington, George Hildebrand, 1850-1905

Reference: A-446-048

Description: The verso inscription describes the scene as 'boathouses at Jask and native boats crews houses. The sea represented is West bay. Three spots of grease.' George Hildebrand Alington was in the Persian Gulf between 1869 and 1872, when he came out to New Zealand aboard the Crusader. Jask is a port town, about 1,050 miles (1,690 km) south of Tehran, situated on the Gulf of Oman This scene would appear to be the left-hand side of a panoramic view of the west bay at Jask; the right-hand side is at A-446-047 Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - [Inscription transcribed in Scope and Contents note] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 176 x 253 mm Provenance: Artworks created by the family of Wellington architect William Alington, donated in 2011 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2000 Alington family papers.

Date: 1869 - 1872

From: Alington family :[Assorted watercolours, lithographs, sketches and curios, either by or belonging to family members. ca 1833-1961]

By: Alington, George Hildebrand, 1850-1905

Reference: A-446-046

Description: Shows a view of the telegraphic station, possibly at Jask. The simple, low-level buildings are probably what served as the repeater station and operators' quarters. A flagpole has been sketched in pencil close to the station. George Hildebrand Alington was in the Persian Gulf between 1869 and 1872, when he came out to New Zealand aboard the Crusader. Jask is a port town, about 1,050 miles (1,690 km) south of Tehran, situated on the Gulf of Oman Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil on paper, 104 x 245 mm Provenance: Artworks created by the family of Wellington architect William Alington, donated in 2011 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2000 Alington family papers.

Date: 1869 - 1872

From: Alington family :[Assorted watercolours, lithographs, sketches and curios, either by or belonging to family members. ca 1833-1961]

By: Alington, George Hildebrand, 1850-1905

Reference: A-446-044

Description: Shows a view of part of the Persian Gulf coast, at Bushire. The rocks appear to have a cave-like formation visible. Two figures can be seen heading towards the water's edge, and a dhow can be seen on the water in the distance. On the top half of the page, upside-down, is a pencil sketch of a basic two-storey building, and the verso shows a very faint, incomplete sketch of the outline of other buildings. George Hildebrand Alington was in the Persian Gulf between 1869 and 1872, when he came out to New Zealand aboard the Crusader. Bushihr lies in a vast plain running along the coastal region on the Persian Gulf coast of southwestern Iran. Other Titles - Bushihr Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - Bushire Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil on paper, 253 x 176 mm Provenance: Artworks created by the family of Wellington architect William Alington, donated in 2011 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2000 Alington family papers.

Date: 1912 - 1917

From: Alington family :[Assorted watercolours, lithographs, sketches and curios, either by or belonging to family members. ca 1833-1961]

By: Alington, Beatrice McCrie, 1896-1982

Reference: E-933

Description: Comprises various humourous sketches and verses by a number of friends of Beatrice McCrie Alington, nee Hair. Many of the entries are distinctly Scottish in theme. Also included with the album is a detached scrap of paper with a half-tone photograph of an unidentified child, under which is printed the quote 'And he who gives the child a home/Builds palaces in Kingdom Come' by the English poet John Masefield Inscriptions: Album page - top centre - To Beatrice from Jean Christmas 1912 [in green ink]; Album [on sketchbook front cover, impressed in gold] Beatrice McCrie Alington was married to George Hildebrand Alington, and was Bill Alington's mother. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil and crayon on paper in sketchbook bound in black, artificially-grained goatskin(?) and impressed with gold, 70 x 90 mm Provenance: Artworks created by the family of Wellington architect William Alington, donated 2011 Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into Manuscripts. Other material from the collection transferred to Photographic Archive - - From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2000 Alington family papers.

Date: 1869 - 1872

From: Alington family :[Assorted watercolours, lithographs, sketches and curios, either by or belonging to family members. ca 1833-1961]

By: Alington, George Hildebrand, 1850-1905

Reference: A-446-045

Description: Artist's note on verso describes the picture as a 'view of Jask. Huts of natives attached to the station. Camel coming in loaded with firewood. The gap in the hills called "The Quoins", a landmark for ships.' George Hildebrand Alington was in the Persian Gulf between 1869 and 1872, when he came out to New Zealand aboard the Crusader. Jask is a port town, about 1,050 miles (1,690 km) south of Tehran, situated on the Gulf of Oman Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - View of Jask... [inscription transcribed in Scope and Contents note] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 85 x 253 mm Provenance: Artworks created by the family of Wellington architect William Alington, donated in 2011 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2000 Alington family papers.

Date: Apr-May 1893

From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1784-196

Description: Correspondents entered in the Name field; includes papers relating to the Cadman-Smith affair and fundraising for Thomas Latham's injury Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: Mar 1893

From: Hall, John (Sir), 1824-1907 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1784-195

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1865]-1882

From: Alington family :Photographs of Alington and Broadhead families

Reference: PAColl-9945-5

Description: Includes - Portraits of George Hildebrand Alington (1850-1905), sixth son of Rev John Alington (1801-1883) and his wife Charlotte Sophia Alington (1813-1898) of Candlesby, Lincolnshire, England. The portraits depict George Alington from ca 1865 to ca 1890. These photographs are associated with manuscript series MS-Papers-11146-15. Members of the Dumergue and Tipping families, ca 1860s-ca 1880s. George Hildebrand Alington's wife was Winifred Beatrice Dumergue (1873-1958), and his brother Charles Sydney Alington's (1846-1932) wife was Gertrude Emma Tipping (fl 1870-1910). These photographs associated with manuscript series MS-Papers-11146-20. Portraits of Winifred Beatrice Alington, nee Dumergue (1873-1958), William (Bill) Alington's paternal grandmother. One shows her as a young woman in the 1890s, and the other was taken in June 1940. There is also a photograph of her grave in a churchyard, Avonside, Christchurch, photographed in 1999. These photographs associated with manuscript series MS-Papers-11146-20. Hester Maud Alington (1895-1983), daughter of George Hildebrand and Winifred Beatrice Alington. These photographs associated with MS-Papers-11146-20. The rest of this collection is about Edward Hugh Alington (1896-1986) son of George Hildebrand and Winifred Beatrice Alington. Includes - Edward Hugh as a choir boy. Edward Hugh in church groups such as a choir picnic and at bible class camps, ca 1908-1914. As a soldier in World War One, training at Trentham Military Camp, with groups of soldiers including a group of military instructors for "Limbless Schools" for disabled soldiers, Surrey, England, 1918. Group of male members of St Stephen's Church, Lower Hutt, 1951. New Zealand Railways board room group including Edward Hugh Alington. Edward Hugh Alington and his wife Beatrice, ca 1980. Sons William (Bill) Alington and Robert Alington, late 1930s-early 1940s. Edward Hugh Alington's sisters, Winifred Louisa Alington (1894-1980) and Hester Maud Alington (1895-1983). Site at Levin where Edward Hugh Alington built a house, photographed ca 1955. Alington graves at Taita cemetery, Lower Hutt where the ashes of Edward Hugh Alington's wife Beatrice, were interred, 17 December 1982. These photographs are associated with manuscript series MS-papers-11146-22. Quantity: 43 b&w original photographic print(s). 13 colour original photographic print(s). 5 b&w copy photographic print(s).

Date: [?1856-2011]

From: Alington family : Papers of Alington and Broadhead families

Reference: Series-5068

Description: Three members of the Alington family arrived in Canterbury from England between 1860 and 1872: William Herbert, Charles Sydney and George Hildebrand (grandfather of the donor, W H Alington). Series comprises mainly papers relating to the three men (who farmed in the Ashburton district), and to their descendants in New Zealand and Canada. Series includes papers relating to the architectural career of W H (Bill) Alington Quantity: 24 issuable items.