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Robert Douglas (New Zealand politician)

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260:. The 57th were afterwards dispatched to New Zealand, and Sir Robert was present at various skirmishes, and at Nukumaru, receiving the honour of mention in general orders. For ten years he commanded a company of the old 'Die Hards', and the retired by sale of commission, and settled in 609: 574: 614: 594: 589: 268: 604: 298:. Douglas had cancer, and for the last few weeks of his life, he stayed with his brother-in-law, C. H. Ashford. He died on 28 February 1884, and his wife died in 1919. 505: 73: 267:
On 31 March 1866, he married Eleanor Louisa Smith, the daughter of Thomas Huntley Liffiton. She had previously married Frederick Smith, a soldier serving with the
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Douglas was born in 1837, the eldest son of Sir Robert Andrews Douglas, 2nd
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From 1873 to the abolition in 1876, he was member of the
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in 1854 and very quickly was on active service in the
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of Glenbervie. His grandfather, the 1st Baronet, was
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Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives
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Index

Robert Douglas (died 1692)
New Zealand Parliament
Marsden
John Munro
William Henry Colbeck
Independent
Marsden
Northland
New Zealand Parliament
1876
6th
Marsden
Independent
Baronet of Douglas
Kenneth Douglas
Jersey
Hampshire
57th Regiment
Crimean War
Sebastopol
Crimean medal
Turkish War medal
Aden
Indian mutiny
Whangārei
65th Regiment of Foot
Wanganui
Auckland Provincial Council
Marsden
1876

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