Henry Skey
1836/7–1914
Draughtsman. Emigrated to New Zealand with his brother William in 1860. Worked in the New Zealand goldfields, 1860–2. Draughtsman to the New Zealand geological survey from 1862. Senior draughtsman to the local Survey Department in Dunedin, 1882–1903. Presented a series of papers on astronomy and aeronautics at the Otago Institute, of which he was an early member.
Sources
DNZB s.v. Skey, William
Historic Cemeteries Conservation Trust of New Zealand, http://www.cemeteries.org.nz/stories/skeyhenry300907.pdf (accessed 8 May 2019)
New Zealand, cemetery records, 1800–2007 (Ancestry.com, accessed 19 August 2019)
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.
