Harry Tombs

Harry Hugo Tombs OBE (11 June 1874 – 2 December 1966) was a New Zealand printer, publisher, musician, artist and patron of the arts.

In the 1960 Queen's Birthday Honours, Tombs was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to art and music.

After he performed a season of Gilbert and Sullivan opera and studied art in England, Tombs went back to New Zealand around 1907, when he married Beatrice Atkinson.

He regularly showed his paintings at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, and, from 1935–1937, was a council member thereof.

[1] In the 1960 Queen's Birthday Honours, Tombs was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to art and music.