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John Robert Godley
Statesman + Bureaucrat + Founder
Male
Born
May 29, 1814
Died
Nov 17, 1861
John Robert Godley was a British statesman and bureaucrat. Godley is considered to be the founder of Canterbury, New Zealand, although he lived there for only two years.
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CHILDHOOD
1814
Birth
Born in 1814.
TWENTIES
1836
22 Years Old
Godley was born in Dublin, the eldest son of John Godley and Katherine Daly. His father was an Anglo-Irish landlord with country estates in County Leitrim and County Meath in Ireland. He was educated at Harrow School and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating in classics in 1836.
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1843
29 Years Old
After graduating from college, Godley traveled over much of Ireland and North America. His traveling influenced and helped to form his ideas about the establishment and governing of colonies. In 1843 he was appointed High Sheriff of Leitrim and, in the following year, Deputy Lieutenant and a Justice of the Peace.
THIRTIES
1846
32 Years Old
He married Charlotte Griffith Wynne, daughter of Mr C.G.Wynne of Denbighshire, in September 1846 and in 1847 failed in a bid to represent Leitrim in the UK parliament.
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1850
36 Years Old
Four years later he and his family arrived in Port Cooper (Lyttelton) in April 1850.
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1852
38 Years Old
He later returned to England in December 1852, where he worked as a columnist and essayist for several newspapers.
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FORTIES
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