Sir Cecil Allen Coward (27 December 1845 – 27 July 1938) was a British lawyer who grew up in New Zealand.
Cecil Allen Coward was born at 11 Minerva Terrace, Islington, London, on 27 December 1845, the second child and only son of John William Smith Coward (1815–1888), a surgeon, and his first wife, Anna Eliza, née Bemfield (d.
[1] In late 1856, the family emigrated to New Zealand, arriving in Wellington Harbour on the Philip Laing and then settling in Christchurch.
Lt Dugald MacFarlane, a Waterloo-veteran, had come to Christchurch on Sir George Seymour, one of First Four Ships, in 1850.
[3][4] In August 1865, Coward passed his matriculation examination and later that year,[5] he returned to England to train as a barrister.