Carbery, Andrew Thomas H, 1836-1870
British army surgeon who served in New Zealand during the 19th century. Born in Queenstown, County Cork, Ireland 28 Feb 1836. Member of The Royal College of Surgeons. Appointed assistant surgeon in the British Army 16 November 1858. Registered in United Kingdom 14 Feb 1859.
Arrived in New Zealand on board the 'Robert Lowe' on 19 November 1860 with the first division of the 2nd battalion, 14th (Buckinghamshire) Regiment of Foot. To Medical Staff 27th July 1863 (but was gazetted as such from 5 May 1863). Served in NZ including Rangiriri and Gate Pa with 2nd Battalion 14th Regt. Attached to Flying Column under Major Ryan, 70th Regiment - present at Gate Pa on 29th April 1864. Resigned in 1866 while serving in NZ (Drew, 1: , 418).
Departed NZ 1 March 1866 aboard 'Prince Alfred' for Sydney, then to Melbourne aboard the 'Balclutha', departed Melbourne aboard the 'Golden Sea' 23 March 1866.
Amateur artist; his scrapbook covers record of service from Nov 1863 to Aug 1865 (Rangiriri, Auckland, Raglan). Death date confirmed by Irish researcher - see Artists' file in D & P. Deleted from UK register 1878.
Married Elizabeth Dillon Carbery (1838-1934); two children, one being Dr Dillon Carbery (Andrew Robert Dillon Carbery, 1868-1948) who in 1898 returned to New Zealand to live with his mother and sister Mrs F P Uniacke .
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From:
Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scrapbook. 1863 - 1868.
Reference:
E-248-q-160
Description:
The imprint of a pressed sprig. Little remains of the plant, apart from a few twigs and small seeds.
Quantity: 1 curio(s).
Physical Description: Leaves, seeds and stalks on album page
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Date:
1858 - 1863
From:
Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scrapbook. 1863 - 1868.
By:
Carbery, Andrew Thomas H, 1836-1870
Reference:
E-248-q-001
Description:
A church alongside a river or canal. It has a square Norman tower, a graveyard outside and stone walls fencing off a field alongside
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour & Chinese white on card, 177 x 254 mm glued to album page
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Date:
1863-1868
By:
Carbery, Andrew Thomas H, 1836-1870; Uniacke, Norman Loman William, 1909-1995; Stout, Robert (Dr), 1882-1959
Reference:
E-248-q
Description:
Subjects include: Waikato-Tauaranga campaign, 1863-64 (17 sketches - see shelf-list for details); humorous drawings; English scenes; shipboard life; ship Golden Sea; the voyage home via Australia, Cape Horn and Brazil. P. 35 is a quartet of singers with a pianist.
Inscriptions: Album page - A. T. H. C.
The Library also holds Carbery's journal from November 1863 to August 1865 (Manuscripts & Archives) containing small humorous sketches of people.
Carbery was Assistant Surgeon with the 2nd battalion of the 14th (Buckinghamshire) Regiment of Foot. He was based in New Zealand between 1859 and 1866. He saw active service in the Waikato, Auckland and Raglan areas with a detachment (flying column) of the 12th, 14th, 65th and 70th Regiments.
Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s) 76 drawings.
Physical Description: Pencil & wash, ink, ink & wash, watercolour, various sizes in album 300 x 255 mm
Provenance: Previously owned by Dr Stout, who lent the volume to the Library for copying in the 1950s.
Processing information: The text in the Biography or history field previously read "Carbery was Assistant Surgeon with the 18th Royal Irish Regiment". This was unable to be verified, and the description updated with verifiable information on 1 December 2022.
Manuscript
Date:
Nov 1863-Aug 1865 - 1958
By:
Carbery, Andrew Thomas H, 1836-1870
Reference:
MS-Papers-2310
Description:
Collection comprises the private journal of Andrew Thomas H Carbery, dated 1863 to 1865; two commissions appointing Carbey as assistant surgeon to the British army and to the 14th Regiment of Foot in 1858, and a leave of absence dated 1865 which gives Carbery leave of absence from the army starting from 29 June1866 to his retirement from service.
The journal outlines Carbery's activities during this period 1863 to 1865 and comments on the conduct of the war and the Hauhau movement. It also contains miscellaneous anecdotes, verse and sketches.
Also includes a type transcript of the journal created by Andrea Shand in 1958.
Source of information on Carbery's regiment was taken from MS-Papers-2310-2.
Source of title - Title page
Accompanying material - Transcript of the journal (folder 2)
Carbery was Assistant Surgeon with the 2nd battalion of the 14th (Buckinghamshire) Regiment of Foot. He was based in New Zealand between 1859 and 1866. He saw active service in the Waikato, Auckland and Raglan areas with a detachment (flying column) of the 12th, 14th, 65th and 70th Regiments.
Quantity: 2 folder(s) (4 pieces). 0.02 Linear Metres.
Physical Description: Holograph, typed transcript, and printed forms completed in ms
Provenance: Typed transcript made in 1958 when journal was in the possession of Mrs Andrea Shand of Christchurch.
Ink and pencil sketches at rear of volume.
Processing information: The text in the Biography or history field previously read "Carbery was Assistant Surgeon with the 18th Royal Irish Regiment". This was unable to be verified, and the description updated with verifiable information on 1 December 2022.
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Date:
1863 - 1865
From:
Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scrapbook. 1863 - 1868.
Reference:
E-248-q-008
Description:
A party in the 1860s in a large living room or ballroom. Mistletoe is attached to a chandelier, beneath which is a chair draped with bonnets. Behind the chair is a young soldier in hiding. Four rather plain-looking women are heading towards the lures on the chair, while two prettier women in the foreground have their backs to their would-be swain and any potential kissing under the mistletoe. The soldier may be intended to be a self-portrait and the ballroom may be in Auckland. There are large pictures on the walls, chairs and couches against the far wall, a grand piano and the chair in the centre along with a chaise-longue.
The artist was a surgeon with the British forces during the Waikato-Tauranga war of the mid 1860s
Other Titles - Artful dodge
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Ink and wash 214 x 276 mm
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Date:
1863 - 1865
From:
Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scrapbook. 1863 - 1868.
Reference:
E-248-q-018
Description:
A couple in a small yacht with a sail and the Red Ensign flying. Possibly an imaginary scene with a lake surrounded by hills, a sunset, a castle on shore, and swans on the water. The man is reaching out of the yacht to grab something out of the water.
The artist was a surgeon with the British forces during the Waikato-Tauranga war of the mid 1860s
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour, 204 x 230 mm (irregular)
Image
Date:
1863 - 1865
From:
Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scrapbook. 1863 - 1868.
Reference:
E-248-q-031/041
Description:
Eleven vignettes, each illustrating a verse of a satirical poem about legends of mermaids and a comparison with modern women (of the 1860s) and their elaborate clothes, including the crinoline skirt, carriages, and accoutrements
The artist was a surgeon with the British forces during the Waikato-Tauranga war of the mid 1860s
Other Titles - ancient
Quantity: 1 drawing(s).
Physical Description: Ink and wash on paper, glued to 11 pages, sizes varying
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Date:
1863 - 1865
From:
Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scrapbook. 1863 - 1868.
Reference:
E-248-q-033
Description:
A scene in a ballroom with a man asking a woman to dance. The woman is wearing a crinoline, requiring the man to stand at some distance from her. Other couples are dancing in the background. The accompanying verse reads: In the ballroom the mermaids are still to be seen / With their hair and their beauty still blooming / But the tail of the fish which in old times had been / Has hopped into hoops and to wide crinoline / Which renders the sirens more looming.
Quantity: 1 drawing(s).
Physical Description: Ink and wash on paper, 118 x 117 mm
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Date:
1863 - 1865
From:
Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scrapbook. 1863 - 1868.
Reference:
E-248-q-016
Description:
Six vignettes of a couple courting. The top left scene (No. 1) shows 'Bonny K-e' (i.e. Kate) about to go for a walk with her 'Hansom' cousin, away from the other participants at a picnic in a park. The bottom left scene (No. 2) shows the young woman electing to skate down a steep hill. Top centre (No. 3) shows 'The awful consequences' - the woman slipping and falling, the man watching in horror. Top right (No. 4) 'Handsom Coz rushes frantically to the rescue'. Bottom right (No. 5) 'and recovers her by a ready method well known to himself' - he is holding the woman in his arms, possibly about to kiss her. Bottom centre (No. 6) shows the picnic party going home on a train, through a tunnel, with the suitor again kissing her to help her recover from a return of faintness.
The artist was a surgeon with the British forces during the Waikato-Tauranga war of the mid 1860s
Quantity: 1 drawing(s).
Physical Description: Ink and wash 208 x 283 mm
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Date:
1863 - 1865
From:
Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scrapbook. 1863 - 1868.
Reference:
E-248-q-002
Description:
An illustration to a four-verse poem about exile in New Zealand during the New Zealand wars and the joys of the artist's and poet's own fireside. He depicts himself seated in uniform asleep in front of a blazing log fire, in a raupo whare, presumably on military duty in New Zealand, dreaming of his English fireside. Carbery was a surgeon with the British forces in New Zealand in 1863 to 1865.
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Ink and wash 120 x 217 mm (irregular)
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Image
Date:
1863 - 1865
From:
Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scrapbook. 1863 - 1868.
Reference:
E-248-q-012
Description:
A picnic with a dozen people sitting on the ground. Part of the text below is missing but the main male character appears to be offering beer to a young woman. Others are also holding beer bottles and glasses
The artist was a surgeon with the British forces during the Waikato-Tauranga war of the mid 1860s
Quantity: 1 drawing(s).
Physical Description: Ink and wash, 231 x 212 mm (irregular)
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Date:
1863 - 1865
From:
Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scrapbook. 1863 - 1868.
By:
Chevalier, Nicholas, 1828-1902; Chapman, George Thomson, 1824-1881
Reference:
E-248-q-059
Description:
A street scene outside two buildings, one on the right with a large crowd in its verandah, possibly awaiting mail; the smaller on the left, with a label by its front, door, possibly 'Post Office' has two women and a child about to enter it. The building was located on a corner site in Princes Street, Auckland
Ellis no. 591. Attributed in Ellis to Nicholas Chevalier, although the basis for this attribution is not known
Quantity: 1 colour art print(s).
Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 90 x 125 mm
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Date:
1863 - 1864
From:
Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scrapbook. 1863 - 1868.
Reference:
E-248-q-094
Description:
A European man, possibly the artist, being rowed by a Maori man, probably on the Waikato River near Meremere. The European is holding a gun. Flax bushes grow in the water to the right, and a bank with hanging treesis on the left, with hills in the distance
The rather garbled Maori inscription appears to indicate that Carbery is being taken shooting in a canoe with his 'doubara (tupara or two barrelled gun) on the Waikato near Meremere
Other Titles - Two-barrel
Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in ink in the hand of the artist
Quantity: 1 drawing(s).
Physical Description: Ink and wash, 134 x 132 mm (circular)
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Image
Date:
1863 - 1865
From:
Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scrapbook. 1863 - 1868.
Reference:
E-248-q-014
Description:
A standing carved figure with moko on the face with a separate flat circular cap placed on its head.
The artist was a surgeon with the British forces during the Waikato-Tauranga war of the mid 1860s. He visited Waikato, Tauranga and Auckland
Quantity: 1 drawing(s).
Physical Description: Ink and wash, 287 x 237 mm
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Image
Date:
1863 - 1865
From:
Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scrapbook. 1863 - 1868.
Reference:
E-248-q-110
Description:
Photograph taken from across the river to the camp at Otahuhu with the mess marquee, the photograph owner's tent, and the tents of the 14th, 40th and 70th Regiments indicated. Soldiers can be seen standing in front of two wooden shelters in the middle ground.
Quantity: 1 photograph(s).
Physical Description: Sepia photograph 142 x 189 mm tipped into album
![Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scene in Hyde (and go seek) Park [Between 1863 and 1865]](https://thumbnailer.digitalnz.org/?resize=150%3E&src=https%3A%2F%2Fndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz%2FNLNZStreamGate%2Fget%3Fdps_pid%3DIE1579017)
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Date:
1863 - 1865
From:
Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scrapbook. 1863 - 1868.
Reference:
E-248-q-024
Description:
Three shocked men standing near a park railing, watching three women being blown into the sky by high winds. The women's legs are on display and two parasols have been blown inside-out. The men's hats have blown off their heads
On the following page (E-248-q-026) is a note explaining: Wonders of the day!!! Ladies beware of 'Crinolines rising' versus 'Fenians rising'. Elopement in high life. Strange ascent in the Park ... as witnessed by the horror-stricken Brown, Jones and Robinson when their beloved Maria, Sophia and Jemima were suddenly taken away from their loving arms in the late gale. P. S. I need not observe that the fair Aeronauts have not since been heard of'. The idea of this cartoon was suggested to me by a legitimate scene that took place one day in Queenstown during a gale of wind. The ladies fair were descending a very steep hill when the gale came on but the only loss sustained by the party were a hat or two, some ribbons probably and a chinon [chignon] probably or so. [initials] A.T.D.C.
Quantity: 1 drawing(s).
Physical Description: Ink and wash 208 x 283 mm
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