John Henry Whitcombe
1829–63
Engineer. Civil engineer with the Great Western railway until 1854, when he went to India. Moved to New Zealand to become the provincial surveyor for Canterbury in 1857.
Sources
Gloucestershire, England, Church of England baptisms, 1813–1913 (Ancestry.co.uk, accessed 24 October 2018)
DNZB.
Bibliography
DNZB: A dictionary of New Zealand biography. Edited by G. H. Scholefield. 2 vols. Wellington, New Zealand: Department of Internal Affairs. 1940. The dictionary of New Zealand biography. Edited by W. H. Oliver et al. 5 vols. Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand: Department of Internal Affairs [and others]. 1990–2000.
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