The son of Samuel Enderby (1755-1829), and grandson of the Samuel Enderby (Southern Whale Fishery). Born 21 November 1797. Member of the New Zealand Association in London in 1837 where he advocated the settlement of the Auckland Islands. In 1847 he and his brothers were granted a lease, and in 1849 he became Commissioner to the Southern Whale Fishery Company and Lieutenant-Governor of the Auckland Islands colony. "Hardwicke", the proposed town, was abandoned in 1852 when the whale fishery failed to provide sufficient returns. Was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, the Royal Society, and the Royal Linnaean Society. His father, Samuel, is in the Dictionary of Australian Biography. Charles may be the artist of 2 watercolours of Port Ross, Auckland Islands, one in the Turnbull, one in the National Library of Australia. Died 31 August aged 78 in 1876. (Information about dates from Conon Fraser, 21 March 1996). The Mitchell Library (Sydney) and the Royal Geographical Society Library, London, hold papers relating to Enderby & Co., founded by Samuel and later headed by Charles, with brothers Henry and George both involved. For further information see Artists' File, Drawings & Prints. (Further information from Brett Fotheringham, pers. comm. 17. 2. 1999).
Enderby, Charles Henry, 1797-1876
Peel, Robert (Sir), 1788-1850 : Papers
Date: 1813-1850
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-1878-1886
Description: Papers relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region, taken from his correspondence as Chief Secretary for Ireland 1812-1818, as leader of the Conservative Party 1834-1846, and as Prime Minister 1834-1835 and 1841-1846. Includes transportation (especially from Ireland) to the Australian penal colonies; political and social matters in NSW; emigration; problems with the New Zealand Company, Fitzroy, Grey and the Wairau affray; French activities in the Pacific and in Tahiti; the guano industry; the New Zealand wars in Northland (1845); magnetic and scientific research observations; Pacific naval station; settlement of Auckland Islands; proposals for future government of New Zealand; Ross's explorations in the Antarctic; banks, financial matters and customs duties; Dutch in the East Indies. Correspondents include J W Crocker, W Gregory, Lord Aberdeen, H Goulburn, R Wilmot Horton; Sir James Graham, Lord Haddington, Lord Stanley, Charles Buller, G Hope, Bishop Selwyn, E G Wakefield, H Wise and W E Gladstone. Also copy of NZ Spectator for Dec 1844. Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 9 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, AJCP, 1985
Southern Whale Fishery Company : Records
Date: 1775-1850
By: Southern Whale Fishery Company
Reference: fMS-Papers-0758
Description: Lists of London ships employed in the fishery (1775-1790), by Samuel Enderby Jnr (author's note found in correspondence). Indenture between the Southern Whale Fishery Company and Charles Henry, and George Enderby, in which the brothers form a company to take over the lease of the Auckland Islands to carry on whale fishery (29 Jun 1849). Letter from Preston, company secretary to R Towns (9 Sep 1850). Source of title - supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (ca 41 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (photocopies)
Mackworth, William Augustus, 1825-1855 : Auckland Islands diary
Date: Jan 1850-Oct 1851, Feb-Sep 1852
By: Mackworth, William Augustus, 1825-1855
Reference: MS-Group-1621
Description: Private diary of William Mackworth, who was sent as the Colonial Administrator to the Hardwicke settlement at Port Ross on the Auckland Islands, which lasted from Dec 1849 to Jan 1853. The diaries give detailed account of shipping, administration, including the issue of own currency, and life in the settlement until the sacking of the Lieutenant-Governor, Charles Enderby, and the abandonment of the settlement. Source of title - Supplied by Library Other - The donor, Mr Downes, was a descendant of Willkiam Mackworth Quantity: 3 volume(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donation, Mr D Downes, 2007
Correspondence, cabinet minutes, autobiographical memoranda MSS 44365 - 44409
Date: 1847-1893, 1892-1894, 1890-1897
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2235
Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
Pre-1857 in-letters (A154 - H876)
Date: 1816-1856
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2322
Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
Outward correspondence
Date: 1852-1959
From: New Zealand Society : Records
Reference: MS-Papers-0121-06
Description: Contains correspondence from Chas Enderby, E Roberts and W L Buller to various people including letter to Steward from Buller; memo of subscriptions paid (1859); further members proposed (1859); and other papers Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: See inventory for full description of contents of this folder.
Enderby, Charles, fl 1829 : Document transferring shares of East London Water Works fro...
Date: 29 Dec 1829
By: Enderby, Charles Henry, 1797-1876
Reference: MS-Papers-2711
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Munce, William John, 1814-1892 : Diary
Date: 27 Jul 1850-8 Jan 1852
By: Munce, William John, 1814-1892
Reference: MS-Papers-9715
Description: The diary covers the departure of Munce from Sydney, his arrival at Port Ross in the Auckland Islands; details the day to day administrative minutiae of the infant colony, which he and William Mackworth carried out; his appointment as magistrate; leisure activities; shipping movements; events and daily life in the colony. Diary finishes abruptly. Includes separate official notification of appointment of Munce as magistrate, signed by the Lieutenant Governor, Charles Enderby Most pages in the volume are unused. At the back of the volume is a correspondence list. Source of title - Supplied by Library Relationship complexity - See also William Mackworth's diary at MS-Group-1621 Munce acted as magistrate to the Enderby Island colony in the Auckland Islands during its brief existence from 1850 to 1852. Quantity: 1 folder(s) 2 items. 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph
[Enderby, Charles] 1797-1876. Attributed works. :[Port Ross, Auckland Islands, Between ...
Date: 1850 - 1852
By: Enderby, Charles Henry, 1797-1876; McNulty, Dorothy, active 1961
Reference: A-093-008
Description: Barracks on the beach and the buildings of the Southern Whale Fishery Company's settlement of Hardwicke, managed by Charles Enderby. A rata is in flower close to the beach. Hills in the background. Possibly painted by Charles Enderby. The inscription on the verso could be interpreted as a statement of the artist's, although Enderby is not known to have been an artist. There is a similar work in the Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia, Canberra, called Port Ross, Auckland Isles, 1850 (NK 6974). This latter work is not attributed to any artist. Enderby was one of the few people to return to England after the break-up of the settlement, and the fact that this picture was earlier located in England may support the suggestion that Enderby was the artist. The Southern Whale Fishery Company settlement of Hardwicke was the shortest-lived of all British colonies. Promoted in 1850 as a whaling base and agricultural colony, with Charles Enderby as its own resident Lieutenant Governor, the settlement grew to a population of 300, but was abandoned after 2 years when the fishery collapsed and the environment proved too inhospitable for vegetables & crops. See Dingwall, P. Castaways of the Auckland Islands in Landscape no. 8 (Nov 1980) pp 12-17, (especially p. 16) Other Titles - Port Ross New Zealand C. Enderby Governor Inscriptions: Verso - [in pencil] Port Ross, New Zealand, C. Enderby Governor. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 176 x 260 mm Provenance: From the Evening Post, 11 October 1961: "Unique Picture on Way to Dominion". London, October 8. - A picture of unique historical interest came to light recently when Mrs Dorothy McNutty [sic], of Staplehurst, Kent, took the back of[f] a small amateurish water-colour, which had long been in the possession of her family. In pencil on the back was written something that looked like "Port Boys, N. Zealand, C. Enderby, Governor." New Zealand House identified it as a painting, probably the only one in existence, of Port Ross in the Auckland Islands, which Charles Enderby attempted to colonise in 1850. Mrs McNulty said that her father, who was born more than 100 years ago, went to sea for one round-the-world voyage when he was 13, and she suggested that he must have acquired the picture during that time. The artist, who was obviously more interested in producing an exact picture of the scene than in painting a work of art, is unknown. The picture is on its way to the Turnbull Library, Wellington, to which Mrs McNulty has sold it." - "Post" Correspondent.
Carrick, Robert Osborne, 1832-1914 : Auckland Islands
Date: 1891-1893
By: Carrick, Robert Osborne, 1832-1914
Reference: qMS-0397
Description: Volumes of letters and notes presumably compiled by Robert Carrick, who in 1892 published a book which contains clearly related material, `New Zealand's lone lands' (Wellington, 1892). These letters in this volume are mainly addressed to S Percy Smith (whose help Carrick acknowledges in his preface to `New Zealand's lone lands'), and are about the origins of the Maoris found living at Erebus Point on Campbell Island when Enderby arrived to found his settlement in 1850. It is believed that these people belonged to the Ngatimutunga and Ngatitama tribes of Port Nicholson. They had fled from Te Rauparaha after the battle of Horowhenua in 1835, going first to the Chatham Islands and then, having become involved in the massacre of the crew of the French whaler `Jean Bart', to the Auckland Islands. Many of the letters were written by John Hay, who was District Surveyor during the early 1890s. Other Titles - New Zealand's lone lands (Wellington, 1892) Quantity: 1 volume(s) (32 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss (28 cm, ¼ navy leather) Printed maps in back pocket removed to MSI-Papers-6708