[4] The Minerva, one of the ships chartered by the Canterbury Association, had left London on 29 September and Plymouth on 12 October 1852, and arrived in Lyttelton on 2 February 1853.
[9] He had to return to England on 'urgent business' in 1856 and feared that he may not be back in time for the start of the 1857 parliamentary session.
[10] In fact, he did not return to New Zealand,[1] and historian George Macdonald noted that he "was not heard of again" in Canterbury.
[2] The resulting by-election was won by John Ollivier, who beat Crosbie Ward.
[11] Brittin died in 1881 and is buried at All Saints, the Parish Church of St Ives.