Charles Simeon (colonist)
She was the daughter of Philip Williams KC,[1] whose wife Jane Blachford also had Sir Fitzwilliam Barrington, 10th Baronet as her grandfather.
The object was to create an Anglican settlement in New Zealand, which happened with the Canterbury region, with Christchurch as its capital.
[12] When news that Godley had resigned his position as the agent for the Canterbury Association reached the management committee in London in October 1851, they looked for a successor.
[13] The Simeon family with five children, a housekeeper, a governess, a lady's maid, a housemaid, a nurse, a cook and a footman left England from the East India Docks on 18 June 1851 on the ship Canterbury and arrived on 21 October in Lyttelton.
[16] The children and servants were put up at the Mitre in Lyttelton at a cost of £4 10s per day until he had found a town house to rent on the Bridle Path.
[18] Within weeks of his arrival, Godley resigned as resident magistrate and the role was conferred to Simeon by the Governor of New Zealand, George Grey, with whom he met.
[25] Late in December 1851, Simeon put his name forward to be elected onto the Council of the Society of Land Purchasers,[26] but Guise Brittan, the council's chairman, announced that the role was incompatible with that of a Resident Magistrate, and Simeon therefore withdrew his name.
[40] In June 1853, he advertised that he had changed his mind, as his role as Resident Magistrate kept him too busy that he could leave the region for long periods attending Parliament in Auckland, and that he would stand for election in the Christchurch Country electorate for the Canterbury Provincial Council instead.
[41] He received the power from the Governor to appoint a deputy returning officer in case he wanted to stand in one of the elections himself.
[43][44] Simeon was the first Speaker of the Provincial Council from September 1853 to April 1855; he was succeeded in that role by Charles Bowen.
Whilst there was justification for such a measure due to the long session lengths, the Executive Council consisting of Henry Tancred, Henry Godfrey Gouland, Simeon, and William John Warburton Hamilton regarded the matter as a vote of no confidence and resigned.
[56][57] He entered various home grown vegetables to the December 1853 Horticultural Exhibition and received first prize for his broad beans, and came second with peas, potatoes, and lettuces.
[1] Three of his sons became priest: Philip in Grahamstown, Algernon in Yattendon, and Hugh at Bolton Abbey in North Yorkshire.
Herbert Andrew Dalton, who was headmaster of Felsted School in England and then Harrison College in the Diocese of Barbados.
When she wants a new servant, instead of it being a perfectly simply open affair, there is as much intrigue about it as about any secret piece of diplomacy.
She is of course unpopular and drags him into her affairs too, and then she thinks it is all "the Colony".Simeon died on 29 May 1867 in Hursley, Hampshire, after a long illness.
