Joint founder with George Tombs, of the printing firm Whitcombe & Tombs. He was born in Brittany, France, educated partly in France and partly at Lansing College, England. At the age of 16 he arrived in New Zealand, and joined an elder brother, Mr. Charles Whitcombe, at New Plymouth. He lived for a short time in Wanganui and then in Christchurch where he joined John Crerar as a bookseller, until Crerar's retirement. He then went into partnership with George Tombs, a printer of Cashel Street.
Whitcombe, George Hawkes, 1854?-1917
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Complimentary dinner given to Mr Geo Tombs by the employees of Whitcombe & Tombs Limite...
Date: 1889
Reference: Eph-A-PRINTING-1889-02
Description: Toast list in the shape of a bunch of five cigars tied with a yellow ribbon. Inside is the printed toast list, with proposers and respondants: J P Cooper, G Tombs, J C Wilkin, J O'H Anthony, A Andrews, J Costley, E Hicks, T Cooper, Messrs Burgess, Clark, McLeary, Horwood, C H Lascelles, W Jackman, H W Burgess, G R Hart. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph on card folded to 105 x 68 mm (irregular) Provenance: Donated by the Ferrymead Printing Society, Christchurch, in 2014