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Name	Born	Died
George Stoddart Whitmore	1829	1903

NameGeorge Stoddart Whitmore Born1829 Died1903

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Surname	Forename	Address	Event Place	Date
WHITMORE	George Stoddart	Napier, Hawkes Bay	Otago	19 Feb 1864

WHITMORE	George Stoddart, Hon	Napier	Otago	16 Sep 1863

SurnameWHITMORE ForenameGeorge Stoddart AddressNapier, Hawkes Bay Event PlaceOtago Date19 Feb 1864

SurnameWHITMORE ForenameGeorge Stoddart, Hon AddressNapier Event PlaceOtago Date16 Sep 1863

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William Bertram Mongonui Whitmore George Stoddart Rissington, Hawke's Bay Wigley Thomas Henry Amuri, Nelson Willcox Joseph Waganui Wilkin Robert Christchurch Wilkinson John Napier
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Bertram Mongonui Auckland Whitmore George Stoddart Puketapu Hawke's Bay Wigley Thomas Henry Amuri Nelson Wilcox Joseph Rangitikei Wellington Wilkins Robert Christchurch Wilkinson
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Electoral RollNapier1865 N-z
Charles Herman Household Whitmore George Stoddart Freehold Wiggins Robert Household and Freehold Wilkinson John Freehold Williams Henry Household Williams Nathaniel Household and
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hb63/64elec
Geo Thos FANNIN WHITMORE George Stoddart Pohui,on run late Messrs TOWGOOD andCAMPBELL's 210 acres,appl 1251,200 acres,lots 424 and 440, each of 300 acres, on run lately held by
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Volunteers 12 Sep 1864 WHITMORE George Stoddart Commandant (Napier) Colonial Defence Force 01 Jul 1862 WHITMORE George Stoddart Lieutenant Colonel Napier Militia 12 Sep 1864
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hb1868wt
Lieut Colonel George Stoddart WHITMORE to be Commandant date of Commission, 29th October 1867. Major James FRASER to be Inspector, date of commission 29th October 1867. Lieut
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naperer1869
Elsthorpe WHITE Levi Napier WHITMORE George Stoddart Napier WIGGINS Robert Napier WILKINSON John Napier WILLIAMS Isaac Napier WILLIAMS Henry Napier WILLIAMS Henry Edward Napier
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hb1885c
Edward WILSON Hon Sir George Stoddart WHITMORE HBH 19 Dec 1885 Waipawa Court . S. JOHNSON JP William BAKER - Unlawfully on premises of Dr TODD Thomas HOGAN - Being a vagrant Mr J.
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hb1862
Notice re application no 1134 for land. Names in full are-George Stoddart WHITMORE, John Carstairs McNEILL,John Nathaniel WILSON. Residence- Auckland- Occupation-Officers in her
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Photographs relating to military history	PAColl-10007. Photographs relating to military history. [between 1939 and 1945]. Mackrell, Brent fl 2012: Photographs (PA-Group-00152). [Item]
Seated portrait of Sir George Stoddart Whitmore	1/1-001821-G. Seated portrait of Sir George Stoddart Whitmore. ca 1890-1900. Schmidt, Herman John, 1872-1959 :Portrait and landscape negatives, Auckland district (PA-Group-00094). [Item]
Copies of final draft of James Livingston's diary (3 copies)	MS-Papers-0236-013E. Copies of final draft of James Livingston's diary (3 copies). 1868-1869, 1962. Houston, John, 1891-1962 : Papers (MS-Papers-0236). [Item]

TitlePhotographs relating to military history SummaryPAColl-10007. Photographs relating to military history. [between 1939 and 1945]. Mackrell, Brent fl 2012: Photographs (PA-Group-00152). [Item]

TitleSeated portrait of Sir George Stoddart Whitmore Summary1/1-001821-G. Seated portrait of Sir George Stoddart Whitmore. ca 1890-1900. Schmidt, Herman John, 1872-1959 :Portrait and landscape negatives, Auckland district (PA-Group-00094). [Item] Thumbnail

TitleCopies of final draft of James Livingston's diary (3 copies) SummaryMS-Papers-0236-013E. Copies of final draft of James Livingston's diary (3 copies). 1868-1869, 1962. Houston, John, 1891-1962 : Papers (MS-Papers-0236). [Item]

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	George Stoddart Whitmore, 1890s			Dictionary of New Zealand Biography / Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
	Inward letters - G S Whitmore	103 letters written from Hawke's Bay and London, 1862-1869 & undated. Includes letter to Miss McLean written from Wellington by T F? Whitmore, undated; sketch map of area from just north of the Mohaka River south to Whitmore's run (undated). Piece-level inventory of letters accessioned pre-1969. Quantity: 1 folder(s).	Not specified	TAPUHI / Alexander Turnbull Library
	Seated portrait of Sir George Stoddart Whitmore	Formal seated portrait of Sir George Stoddart Whitmore wearing full military uniform. Sir George is holding the hilt of his sword in his hand, and the sword is in its scabbard. Photograph taken by Herman John Schmidt between 1890-1900. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).	Not specified	TAPUHI / Alexander Turnbull Library
	Letter from Muriwhenua Rangatira, Perahama Whetu to Whitmore and McLean	Quantity: 1 piece (2 pageson 1 leaf). Physical Description: Holograph and photocopy	Not specified	TAPUHI / Alexander Turnbull Library
	Portrait of Sir George Stoddart Whitmore	Mid-length studio portrait of Sir George Stoddart Whitmore in military uniform. The sitter poses for the photograph in front of a painted backdrop. He is seated on a balustrade.		MTG Hawke's Bay / MTG Hawke's Bay
	Letter from Te Harawira Te Orihau to McLean and Te Witimoa (Whitmore)	Letter written from Te Pourerere Quantity: 1 piece (2 pages on 1 leaf).	Not specified	TAPUHI / Alexander Turnbull Library
	Map of Urewera	Quantity: 1 map(s).	Not specified	TAPUHI / Alexander Turnbull Library
	Letter, N Rich	Letter to George Stoddart Whitmore from N Rich, Auckland, dated 15 January 1869. A 23. N Rich congratulates George Stoddart Whitmore on Ngatapa, commends his attitude while being treated badly in the press, and wishes similar success against Titokowaru as he had with Te Kooti.		MTG Hawke's Bay / MTG Hawke's Bay
	Ref: 1/1-001821-G, 2016. (Seated portrait of Sir George Stoddart Whitmore. Schmidt, Herman John, 1872-1959. Portrait and landscape negatives, Auckland district. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand)	Enlarged glass-plate photographic negative of Sir George Stoddart Whitmore. He sits in a chair in uniform, holding a sword in his left hand.		MTG Hawke's Bay / MTG Hawke's Bay
	Letter from Paora Matenga and others to Whitmore	Quantity: 1 piece (1 page on 1 leaf).	Not specified	TAPUHI / Alexander Turnbull Library
	Major-General the Hon. Sir George Stoddart Whitmore - The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]	Photo by Kinsey.	Cyclopedia Company Limited	New Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington
	Arrival at the cemetery	The military funeral of Sir George Whitmore arriving at the cemetery in Napier.	New Zealand Graphic	Kura Heritage Collections Online / Auckland Libraries
	Letter, Donald McLean	Letter to George Stoddart Whitmore from Donald McLean, dated 14 December 1868. In the letter Donald McLean writes asking George Stoddart Whitmore whether he had a successful engagement against Te Kooti and his party, and states that he did not expect that Te Kooti and his party would return to Turanga. He writes of being anxious to see the Poverty Bay land question settled, that Titokowaru's whereabouts are not known except that he is in the bush inland of Whanganui, and that Rangitikei and Wairarapa are currently quiet areas.		MTG Hawke's Bay / MTG Hawke's Bay
	Davis, William Henry Whitmore fl 1860-1880 : Portrait of Major General Sir George Whitmore	Major General Sir George Whitmore, photographed by William Henry Whitmore Davis, circa 1860s. Inscriptions: Verso - Major General Sir George Whitmore. Commander of the Forces. Afterwards Colonial Secretary Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).	Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901	TAPUHI / Alexander Turnbull Library
	Rough eye sketch of Omaru nui Pa	Sketch of the 'walled village' of Omaranui destroyed by Whitmore in 1866		Kura Heritage Collections Online / Auckland Libraries
	The cortege passing along the Marine Parade	The funeal cortege passing along the Marine Parade for the Late Sir Goerge Whitmore.	New Zealand Graphic	Kura Heritage Collections Online / Auckland Libraries
	The Dean of Waipu reading the burial service	The Dean of Waipu reading the burial service over Sir George Whitmore at the Military funeral in Napier.	New Zealand Graphic	Kura Heritage Collections Online / Auckland Libraries
	Bearing the coffin into the cemetery	Funeral of the Late Sir George Whitmore and the bearing of the coffin into the cemetery.	New Zealand Graphic	Kura Heritage Collections Online / Auckland Libraries
	Sections of Ngatapa Pa, Poverty Bay taken by the colonial forces under Col. Whitmore 5th Jany. 1869	Cross sections of Ngatapa Pa in Poverty Bay		Kura Heritage Collections Online / Auckland Libraries
	Sections of Taurangaika Pa, West Coast	Cross sections of Taurangaika Pa, in South Taranaki as published in Great Britain, Colonial Office, parliamentary papers relative to New Zealand, 1867-69, (307)		Kura Heritage Collections Online / Auckland Libraries

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ArticleGeorge Stoddart Whitmore, 1890s SourceDictionary of New Zealand Biography / Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage

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ArticleInward letters - G S Whitmore Description103 letters written from Hawke's Bay and London, 1862-1869 & undated. Includes letter to Miss McLean written from Wellington by T F? Whitmore, undated; sketch map of area from just north of the Mohaka River south to Whitmore's run (undated). Piece-level inventory of letters accessioned pre-1969. Quantity: 1 folder(s). AuthorNot specified SourceTAPUHI / Alexander Turnbull Library

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ArticleSeated portrait of Sir George Stoddart Whitmore DescriptionFormal seated portrait of Sir George Stoddart Whitmore wearing full military uniform. Sir George is holding the hilt of his sword in his hand, and the sword is in its scabbard. Photograph taken by Herman John Schmidt between 1890-1900. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). AuthorNot specified SourceTAPUHI / Alexander Turnbull Library

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ArticleLetter from Muriwhenua Rangatira, Perahama Whetu to Whitmore and McLean DescriptionQuantity: 1 piece (2 pageson 1 leaf). Physical Description: Holograph and photocopy AuthorNot specified SourceTAPUHI / Alexander Turnbull Library

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ArticlePortrait of Sir George Stoddart Whitmore DescriptionMid-length studio portrait of Sir George Stoddart Whitmore in military uniform. The sitter poses for the photograph in front of a painted backdrop. He is seated on a balustrade. SourceMTG Hawke's Bay / MTG Hawke's Bay

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ArticleLetter from Te Harawira Te Orihau to McLean and Te Witimoa (Whitmore) DescriptionLetter written from Te Pourerere Quantity: 1 piece (2 pages on 1 leaf). AuthorNot specified SourceTAPUHI / Alexander Turnbull Library

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ArticleMap of Urewera DescriptionQuantity: 1 map(s). AuthorNot specified SourceTAPUHI / Alexander Turnbull Library

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ArticleLetter, N Rich DescriptionLetter to George Stoddart Whitmore from N Rich, Auckland, dated 15 January 1869. A 23. N Rich congratulates George Stoddart Whitmore on Ngatapa, commends his attitude while being treated badly in the press, and wishes similar success against Titokowaru as he had with Te Kooti. SourceMTG Hawke's Bay / MTG Hawke's Bay

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ArticleRef: 1/1-001821-G, 2016. (Seated portrait of Sir George Stoddart Whitmore. Schmidt, Herman John, 1872-1959. Portrait and landscape negatives, Auckland district. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand) DescriptionEnlarged glass-plate photographic negative of Sir George Stoddart Whitmore. He sits in a chair in uniform, holding a sword in his left hand. SourceMTG Hawke's Bay / MTG Hawke's Bay

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ArticleLetter from Paora Matenga and others to Whitmore DescriptionQuantity: 1 piece (1 page on 1 leaf). AuthorNot specified SourceTAPUHI / Alexander Turnbull Library

ArticleMajor-General the Hon. Sir George Stoddart Whitmore - The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District] DescriptionPhoto by Kinsey. AuthorCyclopedia Company Limited SourceNew Zealand Electronic Text Collection / Victoria University of Wellington

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ArticleArrival at the cemetery DescriptionThe military funeral of Sir George Whitmore arriving at the cemetery in Napier. AuthorNew Zealand Graphic SourceKura Heritage Collections Online / Auckland Libraries

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ArticleLetter, Donald McLean DescriptionLetter to George Stoddart Whitmore from Donald McLean, dated 14 December 1868. In the letter Donald McLean writes asking George Stoddart Whitmore whether he had a successful engagement against Te Kooti and his party, and states that he did not expect that Te Kooti and his party would return to Turanga. He writes of being anxious to see the Poverty Bay land question settled, that Titokowaru's whereabouts are not known except that he is in the bush inland of Whanganui, and that Rangitikei and Wairarapa are currently quiet areas. SourceMTG Hawke's Bay / MTG Hawke's Bay

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ArticleDavis, William Henry Whitmore fl 1860-1880 : Portrait of Major General Sir George Whitmore DescriptionMajor General Sir George Whitmore, photographed by William Henry Whitmore Davis, circa 1860s. Inscriptions: Verso - Major General Sir George Whitmore. Commander of the Forces. Afterwards Colonial Secretary Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). AuthorDavis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901 SourceTAPUHI / Alexander Turnbull Library

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ArticleRough eye sketch of Omaru nui Pa DescriptionSketch of the 'walled village' of Omaranui destroyed by Whitmore in 1866 SourceKura Heritage Collections Online / Auckland Libraries

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ArticleThe cortege passing along the Marine Parade DescriptionThe funeal cortege passing along the Marine Parade for the Late Sir Goerge Whitmore. AuthorNew Zealand Graphic SourceKura Heritage Collections Online / Auckland Libraries

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ArticleThe Dean of Waipu reading the burial service DescriptionThe Dean of Waipu reading the burial service over Sir George Whitmore at the Military funeral in Napier. AuthorNew Zealand Graphic SourceKura Heritage Collections Online / Auckland Libraries

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ArticleBearing the coffin into the cemetery DescriptionFuneral of the Late Sir George Whitmore and the bearing of the coffin into the cemetery. AuthorNew Zealand Graphic SourceKura Heritage Collections Online / Auckland Libraries

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ArticleSections of Ngatapa Pa, Poverty Bay taken by the colonial forces under Col. Whitmore 5th Jany. 1869 DescriptionCross sections of Ngatapa Pa in Poverty Bay SourceKura Heritage Collections Online / Auckland Libraries

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ArticleSections of Taurangaika Pa, West Coast DescriptionCross sections of Taurangaika Pa, in South Taranaki as published in Great Britain, Colonial Office, parliamentary papers relative to New Zealand, 1867-69, (307) SourceKura Heritage Collections Online / Auckland Libraries

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	Whitmore, George Stoddart		New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga	Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand / Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
	George Stoddart Whitmore, 1890s		New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga	Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand / Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
	WHITMORE, Major-General the Hon. Sir George Stoddart, K.C.M.G., M.L.C.	In 1966 the first encyclopedia of New Zealand was published in three thick volumes. An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand was a critical and publishing success at the time, and has been used as a basic reference work about the country since then. We are proud to make it available online.	McLintock, Alexander Hare Bernard John Foster, M.A., Research Officer, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington. New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga	Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand / Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage

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ArticleWhitmore, George Stoddart AuthorNew Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga SourceTe Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand / Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage

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ArticleGeorge Stoddart Whitmore, 1890s AuthorNew Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga SourceTe Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand / Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage

ArticleWHITMORE, Major-General the Hon. Sir George Stoddart, K.C.M.G., M.L.C. DescriptionIn 1966 the first encyclopedia of New Zealand was published in three thick volumes. An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand was a critical and publishing success at the time, and has been used as a basic reference work about the country since then. We are proud to make it available online. AuthorMcLintock, Alexander Hare
Bernard John Foster, M.A., Research Officer, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington.
New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga SourceTe Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand / Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage

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Name	Born	Died	Cemetery	Cemetery location	Region
Sir George Stoddart Whitmore	30 May 1829 🔍	16 Mar 1903 🔍 📰	Old Napier Cemetery	Napier, Napier City	Hawke's Bay

NameSir George Stoddart Whitmore Born30 May 1829 🔍 Died16 Mar 1903 🔍 📰 CemeteryOld Napier Cemetery Cemetery locationNapier, Napier City RegionHawke's Bay

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Title	Date	Record type
Whitmore, George Stoddart	1863-07-11	Militia, Volunteers & Armed Constabulary
Whitmore, George Stoddart	1867-10-29	Militia, Volunteers & Armed Constabulary

Title Whitmore, George Stoddart Date1863-07-11 Record typeMilitia, Volunteers & Armed Constabulary

Title Whitmore, George Stoddart Date1867-10-29 Record typeMilitia, Volunteers & Armed Constabulary

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Army Department > Inwards letters and registered files

Name	Year(s)	Held At	Access
From: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding Napier District, Napier Date: [7 March 1868] Subject: Proceedings of Board on Major Fraser's accounts[This item is part of a larger record. To order this document please use the record number in the Additional Archives Description field below]	1868	Wellington	Open
From: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding Napier District, Napier Date: 1 February 1868 Subject: With Report on State of Major Fraser's accounts[This item is part of a larger record. To order this document please use the record number in the Additional Archives Description field below]	1868	Wellington	Open
From: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding Napier District Date: 17 November 1865 Subject: Reports as to Dr Hitchings services in connection with Militia thinks £50 might be given as bonus. Recommends definition of services required from Medical Officer of General Government and of salary he is to receive [This document is part of a larger record. To order this document please use the record number in the Additional Archives Description field below.]	1865	Wellington	Open
From: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Colonel, Colonial Defence Office, Wellington Date: 11 February 1879 Subject: Gazette Notice No. 20 - 20 February 1879 [Appointment of Volunteer Officers; Resignation of Volunteer Officers; Amalgamation of Corps	1879	Wellington	Open
From: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding Napier District Date: 17 February 1866 Subject: Recommending that Dr Hitchings be allowed £50 per annum for Militia Services in addition to £100 already allowed by Native Department	1866	Wellington	Open
From: [I T Fisher in the absence of Defence Minister] G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Wellington Date: 13 January 1879 Subject: Gazette Notice No. 7, 16 January 1879 - [Services of Volunteer Corps accepted and Registration of Volunteer Officers]	1879	Wellington	Open
From: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding Napier District Date: 16 January 1866 Subject: With letter from Captain Thomas Tanner, tendering services of Waipawa Cavalry Volunteers under "Volunteer Act 1865" - with return of the strength	1866	Wellington	Open
From: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding Napier District, Napier Date: 5 January 1866 Subject: Remarks on Regulations for Volunteers [This document is part of a larger record. To order this document please use the record number in the Additional Archives Description field below.]	1866	Wellington	Open
From: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Lieutenant Colonel [Commanding Napier District] [Napier] Date: 29 January 1879 Subject: Allowance to Sergeant Huddleston, Armed Constabulary, as Clerk in Militia and Volunteers Office, Gisborne	1879	Wellington	Open
From: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Colonel [Wellington] Date: [29 January 1879] Subject: Gazette Notice No. 13, 30 January 1879 [Commission of Volunteer Officer cancelled and Resignation of Volunteer Officer]	1879	Wellington	Open
From: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Colonel [Wellington] Date: [31 July 1878] Subject: Instructions as to pay and allowances of Drill Instructor, Westland [This item is part of a larger record. To order this document please use the record number in the Additional Archives Description field below]	1878	Wellington	Open
From: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Colonial Defence Office, Wellington Date: 3 December 1878 Subject: Gazette Notice No. 124, 12 December 1878	1878	Wellington	Open
From: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Colonial Defence Office, Wellington Date: 27 November 1878 Subject: Prize Firing Regulations	1878	Wellington	Open
From: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Colonial Defence Office, Wellington Date: 9 October 1878 Subject: Gazette No. 97, 10 October 1878 [This item is part of a larger record. To order this document please use the record number in the Additional Archives Description field below]	1878	Wellington	Open
From: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding Napier Rifle Volunteers, Elsthorpe Date: 14 February 1866 Subject: Forwarding letter from Captain Buchanan tendering services of Napier Rifle Volunteers under "Volunteer Act 1865" [This document is part of a larger record. To order this document please use the record number in the Additional Archives Description field below.]	1866	Wellington	Open
From: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Colonial Defence Office, Wellington Date: 6 November 1878 Subject: Gazette Notice No. 110, 7 November 1878 [This item is part of a larger record. To order this document please use the record number in the Additional Archives Description field below]	1878	Wellington	Open
From: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Colonel Wordalls Redoubt [near Wanganui] Date: 23 November 1868 Subject: Letter from Constable Muirhead relative to stoppages from his pay [This item is part of a larger record. To order this document please use the record number in the Additional Archives Description field below]	1868	Wellington	Open
From: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Colonial Defence Office, Wellington Date: 24 November 1878 Subject: Gazette Notice No. 121, 5 December 1878 [This item is part of a larger record. To order this document please use the record number in the Additional Archives Description field below]	1878	Wellington	Open
From: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Colonial Defence Office, Wellington Date: 30 October 1878 Subject: Gazette Notice No. 107, 31 October 1878 [This item is part of a larger record. To order this document please use the record number in the Additional Archives Description field below]	1878	Wellington	Open
From: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Colonial Defence Office, Wellington Date: 16 October 1878 Subject: Gazette Notice No. 101, 17 October 1878 [This item is part of a larger record. To order this document please use the record number in the Additional Archives Description field below]	1878	Wellington	Open
From: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Colonial Defence Office, Wellington Date: 1 October 1878 Subject: Gazette Notice No. 95, 2 October 1878 [This item is part of a larger record. To order this document please use the record number in the Additional Archives Description field below]	1878	Wellington	Open
From: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Colonial Defence Office, Wellington Date: 24 September 1878 Subject: Gazette Notice No. 92, 26 September 1878 [This item is part of a larger record. To order this document please use the record number in the Additional Archives Description field below]	1878	Wellington	Open
From: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding Local Forces Hawke's Bay, Napier Date: 8 March 1866 Subject: With names of Officers and number of men in Napier Rifle Volunteer Company	1866	Wellington	Open
From: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Colonial Defence Office, Wellington Date: 20 November 1878 Subject: Gazette Notice No. 115, 21 November 1878 [Inspector of Volunteers Appointed] , Gazette Notice No. 17, 13 February 1879 [Appointment of Volunteer Officers], Gazette Notice No. 119, 28 November 1878 [Resignation of Volunteer Officer] [This item is part of a larger record. To order this document please use the record number in the Additional Archives Description field below]	1878	Wellington	Open
From: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding Napier District Date: 6 January 1866 Subject: 300 Rifles applied for by Captain Withers were for Friendly natives at Te Wairoa by advice of His Honorable The Superintendent of Napier [This item is part of a larger record. To order this document please use the record number in the Additional Archives Description field below]	1866	Wellington	Open
From: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Lieutenant Colonel, Wellington Date: 6 December 1878 Subject: Gazette notice No. 128 of 19 December 1878 [Designation of Corps altered]	1878	Wellington	Open
From: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Lieutenant Colonel, Wellington Date: 24 December 1878 Subject: Gazette Notice No. 132, 27 December 1878 [Resignation of Volunteer Officer]	1878	Wellington	Open

NameFrom: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding Napier District, Napier Date: [7 March 1868] Subject: Proceedings of Board on Major Fraser's accounts[This item is part of a larger record. To order this document please use the record number in the Additional Archives Description field below] Year(s)1868 Held AtWellington AccessOpen

NameFrom: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding Napier District, Napier Date: 1 February 1868 Subject: With Report on State of Major Fraser's accounts[This item is part of a larger record. To order this document please use the record number in the Additional Archives Description field below] Year(s)1868 Held AtWellington AccessOpen

NameFrom: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding Napier District Date: 17 November 1865 Subject: Reports as to Dr Hitchings services in connection with Militia thinks £50 might be given as bonus. Recommends definition of services required from Medical Officer of General Government and of salary he is to receive [This document is part of a larger record. To order this document please use the record number in the Additional Archives Description field below.] Year(s)1865 Held AtWellington AccessOpen

NameFrom: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Colonel, Colonial Defence Office, Wellington Date: 11 February 1879 Subject: Gazette Notice No. 20 - 20 February 1879 [Appointment of Volunteer Officers; Resignation of Volunteer Officers; Amalgamation of Corps Year(s)1879 Held AtWellington AccessOpen

NameFrom: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding Napier District Date: 17 February 1866 Subject: Recommending that Dr Hitchings be allowed £50 per annum for Militia Services in addition to £100 already allowed by Native Department Year(s)1866 Held AtWellington AccessOpen

NameFrom: [I T Fisher in the absence of Defence Minister] G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Wellington Date: 13 January 1879 Subject: Gazette Notice No. 7, 16 January 1879 - [Services of Volunteer Corps accepted and Registration of Volunteer Officers] Year(s)1879 Held AtWellington AccessOpen

NameFrom: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding Napier District Date: 16 January 1866 Subject: With letter from Captain Thomas Tanner, tendering services of Waipawa Cavalry Volunteers under "Volunteer Act 1865" - with return of the strength Year(s)1866 Held AtWellington AccessOpen

NameFrom: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding Napier District, Napier Date: 5 January 1866 Subject: Remarks on Regulations for Volunteers [This document is part of a larger record. To order this document please use the record number in the Additional Archives Description field below.] Year(s)1866 Held AtWellington AccessOpen

NameFrom: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Lieutenant Colonel [Commanding Napier District] [Napier] Date: 29 January 1879 Subject: Allowance to Sergeant Huddleston, Armed Constabulary, as Clerk in Militia and Volunteers Office, Gisborne Year(s)1879 Held AtWellington AccessOpen

NameFrom: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Colonel [Wellington] Date: [29 January 1879] Subject: Gazette Notice No. 13, 30 January 1879 [Commission of Volunteer Officer cancelled and Resignation of Volunteer Officer] Year(s)1879 Held AtWellington AccessOpen

NameFrom: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Colonel [Wellington] Date: [31 July 1878] Subject: Instructions as to pay and allowances of Drill Instructor, Westland [This item is part of a larger record. To order this document please use the record number in the Additional Archives Description field below] Year(s)1878 Held AtWellington AccessOpen

NameFrom: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Colonial Defence Office, Wellington Date: 3 December 1878 Subject: Gazette Notice No. 124, 12 December 1878 Year(s)1878 Held AtWellington AccessOpen

NameFrom: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Colonial Defence Office, Wellington Date: 27 November 1878 Subject: Prize Firing Regulations Year(s)1878 Held AtWellington AccessOpen

NameFrom: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Colonial Defence Office, Wellington Date: 9 October 1878 Subject: Gazette No. 97, 10 October 1878 [This item is part of a larger record. To order this document please use the record number in the Additional Archives Description field below] Year(s)1878 Held AtWellington AccessOpen

NameFrom: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding Napier Rifle Volunteers, Elsthorpe Date: 14 February 1866 Subject: Forwarding letter from Captain Buchanan tendering services of Napier Rifle Volunteers under "Volunteer Act 1865" [This document is part of a larger record. To order this document please use the record number in the Additional Archives Description field below.] Year(s)1866 Held AtWellington AccessOpen

NameFrom: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Colonial Defence Office, Wellington Date: 6 November 1878 Subject: Gazette Notice No. 110, 7 November 1878 [This item is part of a larger record. To order this document please use the record number in the Additional Archives Description field below] Year(s)1878 Held AtWellington AccessOpen

NameFrom: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Colonel Wordalls Redoubt [near Wanganui] Date: 23 November 1868 Subject: Letter from Constable Muirhead relative to stoppages from his pay [This item is part of a larger record. To order this document please use the record number in the Additional Archives Description field below] Year(s)1868 Held AtWellington AccessOpen

NameFrom: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Colonial Defence Office, Wellington Date: 24 November 1878 Subject: Gazette Notice No. 121, 5 December 1878 [This item is part of a larger record. To order this document please use the record number in the Additional Archives Description field below] Year(s)1878 Held AtWellington AccessOpen

NameFrom: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Colonial Defence Office, Wellington Date: 30 October 1878 Subject: Gazette Notice No. 107, 31 October 1878 [This item is part of a larger record. To order this document please use the record number in the Additional Archives Description field below] Year(s)1878 Held AtWellington AccessOpen

NameFrom: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Colonial Defence Office, Wellington Date: 16 October 1878 Subject: Gazette Notice No. 101, 17 October 1878 [This item is part of a larger record. To order this document please use the record number in the Additional Archives Description field below] Year(s)1878 Held AtWellington AccessOpen

NameFrom: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Colonial Defence Office, Wellington Date: 1 October 1878 Subject: Gazette Notice No. 95, 2 October 1878 [This item is part of a larger record. To order this document please use the record number in the Additional Archives Description field below] Year(s)1878 Held AtWellington AccessOpen

NameFrom: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Colonial Defence Office, Wellington Date: 24 September 1878 Subject: Gazette Notice No. 92, 26 September 1878 [This item is part of a larger record. To order this document please use the record number in the Additional Archives Description field below] Year(s)1878 Held AtWellington AccessOpen

NameFrom: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding Local Forces Hawke's Bay, Napier Date: 8 March 1866 Subject: With names of Officers and number of men in Napier Rifle Volunteer Company Year(s)1866 Held AtWellington AccessOpen

NameFrom: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Colonial Defence Office, Wellington Date: 20 November 1878 Subject: Gazette Notice No. 115, 21 November 1878 [Inspector of Volunteers Appointed] , Gazette Notice No. 17, 13 February 1879 [Appointment of Volunteer Officers], Gazette Notice No. 119, 28 November 1878 [Resignation of Volunteer Officer] [This item is part of a larger record. To order this document please use the record number in the Additional Archives Description field below] Year(s)1878 Held AtWellington AccessOpen

NameFrom: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Lieutenant Colonel Commanding Napier District Date: 6 January 1866 Subject: 300 Rifles applied for by Captain Withers were for Friendly natives at Te Wairoa by advice of His Honorable The Superintendent of Napier [This item is part of a larger record. To order this document please use the record number in the Additional Archives Description field below] Year(s)1866 Held AtWellington AccessOpen

NameFrom: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Lieutenant Colonel, Wellington Date: 6 December 1878 Subject: Gazette notice No. 128 of 19 December 1878 [Designation of Corps altered] Year(s)1878 Held AtWellington AccessOpen

NameFrom: G S [George Stoddart] Whitmore, Lieutenant Colonel, Wellington Date: 24 December 1878 Subject: Gazette Notice No. 132, 27 December 1878 [Resignation of Volunteer Officer] Year(s)1878 Held AtWellington AccessOpen

Police Department > Central filing system

Name	Year(s)	Held At	Access
[From: Governor Date: 14 June 1878 Subject: Appointing Hon George Stoddart Whitmore a member of Executive Council, Colonial Secretary of New Zealand, and Commissioner of Armed Constabulary]	1878	Wellington	Open

Name[From: Governor Date: 14 June 1878 Subject: Appointing Hon George Stoddart Whitmore a member of Executive Council, Colonial Secretary of New Zealand, and Commissioner of Armed Constabulary] Year(s)1878 Held AtWellington AccessOpen

Army Department > Maori War Series files

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Department of Justice, High Court, Gisborne > Gisborne Miscellaneous Files

Name	Year(s)	Held At	Access
In the matter of The Administration Act 1908 and its amendments and in the matter of the estate of George Stoddart Travers Whitmore otherwise known as George Stoddart Travers late of Tuparoa, Farmer, deceased and in the matter of the claim of The Tuparoa Trading Company of Ruatoria, Storekeepers, against the said estate	1931	Auckland	Open
In the Estate of George Stoddart Travers Whitmore, deceased. Between Wilfred Alick Black and Georgina Elvena Robinson, Plaintiffs and Thomas Joseph James, Walter Joseph Fish and The National Insurance Company of New Zealand Limited, Defendants	1928	Auckland	Open
In the matter of The Administration Act 1908 and its amendments and in the matter of the estate of George Stoddart Travers Whitmore otherwise known as George Stoddart Travers late of Tuparoa, Farmer, deceased and in the matter of the claim of Messrs. Nolan and Skeet of Gisborne, Solicitors, against the said estate	1931	Auckland	Open

NameIn the matter of The Administration Act 1908 and its amendments and in the matter of the estate of George Stoddart Travers Whitmore otherwise known as George Stoddart Travers late of Tuparoa, Farmer, deceased and in the matter of the claim of The Tuparoa Trading Company of Ruatoria, Storekeepers, against the said estate Year(s)1931 Held AtAuckland AccessOpen

NameIn the Estate of George Stoddart Travers Whitmore, deceased. Between Wilfred Alick Black and Georgina Elvena Robinson, Plaintiffs and Thomas Joseph James, Walter Joseph Fish and The National Insurance Company of New Zealand Limited, Defendants Year(s)1928 Held AtAuckland AccessOpen

NameIn the matter of The Administration Act 1908 and its amendments and in the matter of the estate of George Stoddart Travers Whitmore otherwise known as George Stoddart Travers late of Tuparoa, Farmer, deceased and in the matter of the claim of Messrs. Nolan and Skeet of Gisborne, Solicitors, against the said estate Year(s)1931 Held AtAuckland AccessOpen

High Court Auckland, Department of Justice > Auckland Miscellaneous files - annual number series

Name	Year(s)	Held At	Access
In the Matter of ... Act 1908 and in the Matter ... married woman and Georgina Elvina Robinson ... Woman, Plaintiffs and the Public Trustee ... abovenamed deceased and (a) Lucy Warren ... Auckland Spinster and Muriel Janet Louisa ... Louisa Fish, and a great grandson ... Auckland, Farmer and John Rock of ... the son and two adopted sons ... sixteen years and fourteen years, being son and daughter respectively of ... whose names and addresses are at ... Eileen Satchell and Gwendoline Myrtle Swannebeck ...	1932 ‑ 1935	Auckland	Open
In the Matter of "the Administration Act 1908" and in the Matter of the Estate of George Stoddart Travers Whitmore otherwise known as George Stoddart Travers late of Tuparoa Sheep-farmer deceased. Between The National Insurance Company of New Zealand Limited of Dunedin and elsewhere, Plaintiff and Thomas Joseph James Clerk of Works and Walter Joseph Fish Motor Mechanic both of Auckland as Administrators of the above-mentioned Estate, Defendants	1928 ‑ 1929	Auckland	Open
In the Matter of the Estate of George Stoddart Travers Whitmore (otherwise known as George Stoddart Travers) late of Tuparoa in the Gisborne District, Sheepfarmer, deceased (hereinafter referred to as the said deceased") and in the Matter of the Administration Act 1908	1934 ‑ 1935	Auckland	Open
In the Matter of "The Trustee Act 1908" and in the Matter of the Estate of George Stoddart Travers Whitmore otherwise known as George Stoddart Travers late of Tuparoa Sheep-farmer deceased	1927	Auckland	Open
In the Matter of the estate of George Stoddart Travers Whitmore (otherwise known as George Stoddart Travers) deceased and in the Matter of "The Administration Act 19087"	1930	Auckland	Open

NameIn the Matter of ... Act 1908 and in the Matter ... married woman and Georgina Elvina Robinson ... Woman, Plaintiffs and the Public Trustee ... abovenamed deceased and (a) Lucy Warren ... Auckland Spinster and Muriel Janet Louisa ... Louisa Fish, and a great grandson ... Auckland, Farmer and John Rock of ... the son and two adopted sons ... sixteen years and fourteen years, being son and daughter respectively of ... whose names and addresses are at ... Eileen Satchell and Gwendoline Myrtle Swannebeck ... Year(s)1932 ‑ 1935 Held AtAuckland AccessOpen

NameIn the Matter of "the Administration Act 1908" and in the Matter of the Estate of George Stoddart Travers Whitmore otherwise known as George Stoddart Travers late of Tuparoa Sheep-farmer deceased. Between The National Insurance Company of New Zealand Limited of Dunedin and elsewhere, Plaintiff and Thomas Joseph James Clerk of Works and Walter Joseph Fish Motor Mechanic both of Auckland as Administrators of the above-mentioned Estate, Defendants Year(s)1928 ‑ 1929 Held AtAuckland AccessOpen

NameIn the Matter of the Estate of George Stoddart Travers Whitmore (otherwise known as George Stoddart Travers) late of Tuparoa in the Gisborne District, Sheepfarmer, deceased (hereinafter referred to as the said deceased") and in the Matter of the Administration Act 1908 Year(s)1934 ‑ 1935 Held AtAuckland AccessOpen

NameIn the Matter of "The Trustee Act 1908" and in the Matter of the Estate of George Stoddart Travers Whitmore otherwise known as George Stoddart Travers late of Tuparoa Sheep-farmer deceased Year(s)1927 Held AtAuckland AccessOpen

NameIn the Matter of the estate of George Stoddart Travers Whitmore (otherwise known as George Stoddart Travers) deceased and in the Matter of "The Administration Act 19087" Year(s)1930 Held AtAuckland AccessOpen

Department of Justice, High Court, Gisborne > Probates - Gisborne

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WHITMORE George Stoddart Travers - Tuparoa - Sheep Farmer	📃 View Scan	1921	Auckland	Open
WHITMORE George Stoddart Travers - Tuparoa - Sheep Farmer	📃 View Scan	1922	Auckland	Open

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Dictionary of NZ Biography (Scholefield, 1940)

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Name	Biography	Reference
George Stoddart Whitmore	WHITMORE, SIR GEORGE STODDART (1830-1903) was born at Malta, the son of Major George St Vincent Whitmore, R.E., and grandson of General Sir George Whitmore, K.C.H. (colonel-commandant R.E.). His mother was a daughter of Sir J. Stoddart, chief justice of Malta. Educated at the Edinburgh Academy and the Staff College, he received his first commission (23 Jan 1847) as ensign in the Cape Mounted Rifles, with which regiment he first saw active service in the Kaffir wars of 1847 and 1851-53, and in the Boer rising of 1848. In the latter he was present at every engagement and commanded the escort of Sir Harry Smith (Mar-Nov 1851). Promoted lieutenant (21 May 1850), he was appointed brigade-major to the division (1852) and continued to serve under Sir G. Cathcart until the end of the operations. In 1853 he was major of brigade to cavalry. He had two horses shot under him and was repeatedly thanked for his intrepidity, resource and courage. Promoted captain (7 Jul 1854), he was appointed to the 62nd Foot. In 1855 he proceeded to the Crimea as aide-de-camp to Sir Henry Storks. In the early part of the campaign he was detached on special service in connection with remounts in Hungary, Austria and the principalities, and then with the cavalry of the Turkish contingent in Crimea and Kertch. He was with his own regiment, the 62nd, before Sebastopol. On the termination of the campaign Whitmore was chosen to remain in the Crimea to help wind up the affairs of the army. The methodical and businesslike manner in which his accounts were returned evoked a flattering testimonial from the auditor-general. For his services in the war he received the brevet of major (6 Jun 1856), the Turkish medal, the Medjidieh (4th class) and three British medals. On his return to England he took command of the regimental depot in Ireland, but was shortly appointed aide-de-camp to Sir W. Eyre, commander-in-chief in Canada. In 1860 he was admitted to the staff college, and at the end of the following year he passed out first. In Jan 1861 Whitmore sailed for New Zealand as military secretary to Sir Duncan Cameron. When as a result of interference by the political authority Cameron resigned, Whitmore also proffered his resignation. Cameron's offer was declined by the War Office, but that of Whitmore was accepted as a matter of course. He accordingly retired by selling his commission (7 Nov 1862) and became a landowner in Hawkes Bay. In Dec 1862 he was appointed to the commission of the peace, and in Mar 1863 he became civil commissioner for the Ahuriri district in succession to Lieut-colonel A. H. Russell. A few months later he was appointed major commanding the military district of Napier, and then chief inspector of the Colonial Defence Force. Almost immediately fighting broke out again in Taranaki in consequence of the murder of Lieut Tragett and Dr Hope. Whitmore volunteered to serve under Cameron, and took part in all the operations up to the action at Katikara (4 Jun 1863). He accompanied Cameron to Waikato, and was present at the battle of Orakau. He then returned to Hawkes Bay. He was appointed commandant of the Colonial Defence Force in Jul 1863, and two months later was called to the Legislative Council. During most of the year 1865 Whitmore was on a visit to England, and so missed the operations of that period. Not long after his return to Hawkes Bay the province was threatened by a Hauhau invasion from the Taupo country, and Whitmore was called upon to command the local defence force. Hurriedly raising a force, he marched out of Napier on the night of 17 Oct 1866 with 200 volunteers and a strong body of friendly natives under Locke, Tareha and Renata Kawepo, and took up a position on the Tutaekuri river. Early next morning the Hauhau position at Omarunui was surrounded and attacked, and after a sharp fight practically the whole of the enemy were killed or captured, including amongst the former the Hauhau preacher Panapa. Colonel Fraser had meanwhile surprised the small mounted force under Te Rangihiroa which threatened Napier from the direction of Petane. Thus the invasion ended. Whitmore now entered into local politics, being elected in Apr 1867 to represent Wairoa in the Provincial Council. Towards the end of the year he was appointed commandant of the newly organised Armed Constabulary force. In the middle of 1868 alarm was caused by the escape of Te Kooti and his followers from the Chatham islands and the invasion of Poverty Bay. With the permission of the Government, Whitmore raised in Napier a small force of 30 paid volunteers. They arrived in H.M.S. Rosario too late to assist the settlers in their fight at Paparata, and the raiders made good their escape with a large number of captured horses and camp equipage. Having suffered considerable hardship and reached the limits of the district in which they could be called upon to fight, the local settlers refused to continue the pursuit, and Whitmore was compelled to await reinforcements. An overbearing manner and inconsiderate demands on this and other occasions were responsible for much resentment on the part of the militia and volunteers, to whom the rigid discipline of the regular army was distasteful. The pause in the pursuit allowed Te Kooti to inflict another reverse upon the Wairoa contingent and to make his escape to the bush some days ahead of Whitmore. Though weakened by the departure of the Poverty Bay settlers, Whitmore followed with great intrepidity and came up with the rearguard in the rugged bed of the Ruakiture river in the afternoon of 8 Aug. With his force of only 118 (of whom 76 were Europeans) he maintained the pursuit until dusk, crossing the river no less than eight times. The retreating enemy fought fiercely, and inflicted such losses that Whitmore prudently broke off the engagement at dusk and with great difficulty brought off his wounded. Te Kooti himself was borne into the bush wounded. Lack of provisions compelled a retirement of the exhausted column, leaving its dead behind. Whitmore hastened to Poverty Bay and thence by sea to Wellington to consult the Government. Meanwhile a severe reverse had been sustained by the Colonial forces at Te Ngutu-o-te-Manu, on the West Coast. Whitmore offered, in view of the shortage of officers, to serve under McDonnell; but the Defence Minister (Haultain) found the force so disorganised by the reverse that he ordered its retirement to Patea and entrusted to Whitmore the command of the whole of the troops between the Wanganui and Hangatahua rivers. The Wellington and Nelson men took their discharge, and von Tempsky's Forest Rangers were disbanded, openly disaffected after the loss of their leader. The only unit fit for service was the No. 1 (Hawkes Bay) division of the Armed Constabulary. Whitmore took it with him to the West Coast, and set to work reorganising and drilling, while the Government with great energy recruited in distant provinces and in Australia for regular enlistment in the Constabulary. Whitmore's experience in irregular warfare in South Africa was of great value to the Colony, enabling him to create a new force which was eminently suitable for the work ahead of it. Meanwhile Titokowaru was actively harassing the countryside, and Whitmore considered it advisable to withdraw his headquarters to Wairoa (Waverley), whence with the help of native kupapas, he obstructed the advance of the enemy towards the settlements at Wanganui. Titokowaru had fixed his headquarters at Moturoa, four miles to the northward, and Whitmore decided to attack him without delay. The assault was launched on the morning of 7 Nov 1868. The fighting was very hot. As it developed Whitmore conceived that the position was too strong for the force at his disposal, and decided to draw off. Though he did so in good order and effected his retreat to Wairoa, he had made one of his worst military blunders. Had he continued the attack he must have succeeded. The reverse at Moturoa, one of the most desperate actions in the war, dealt another blow at the confidence of the Colonial forces. Whitmore fell back to the Waitotara river and then to Nukumaru in the hope of covering Wanganui. The garrisons at Wairoa and Patea were now the only posts held by the colonists between the Wanganui front and the Waingongoro river in Taranaki. The position was obviously critical, and Whitmore offered to resign. Fortunately he still enjoyed the confidence of the Defence Minister. Titokowaru advanced further, and constructed elaborate works at Taurangaika, only 18 miles from Wanganui. At this juncture news was received of the massacre in Poverty Bay on 10 Nov. Reinforcements in the circumstances could not be spared for the West Coast, so after consultation with Haultain Whitmore destroyed what stores he could not carry off and withdrew his troops to the Kai-iwi river. This front would have to maintain itself as well as possible, with the help of the incomparable cavalry troops of Bryce and Finnimore, while Whitmore hastened with his most reliable troops to succour Poverty Bay. On 12 Dec he sailed with 212 of the Armed Constabulary. A few days later he met at Patutahi, Poverty Bay, a force under Preece and Ropata returning from an unsuccessful assault on Te Kooti's stronghold at Ngatapa. Ropata was too prudent to accede to Whitmore's exhortation to renew the attack at once, and the troops camped at Makaraka to await reinforcements. On 24 Dec Whitmore advanced with four divisions of Armed Constabulary (400 strong) and 350 of the Ngati-Porou commanded by Ropata. By the 31st he was entrenched on a hill half a mile from the enemy position, which had been greatly strengthened. On the following day he completed the investment. The Coehorn mortar was brought into action, and a three-days' siege commenced. The outer and second lines of defence were carried, but on the night of 4 Jan 1869 the main body of the enemy made their escape by an unguarded precipice. Many were captured in the hot pursuit. Every male prisoner was shot, 120 out of 136 killed being thus executed after capture; and 150 were wounded in the fighting. The Government losses were 7 killed and 11 wounded. Te Kooti with a few followers fled into the Urewera country. No sooner was the defeat of the enemy accomplished, than Whitmore embarked with the Armed Constabulary and a new division of Arawa, landing at Wanganui on 18 Jan. He now advanced rapidly with his whole force of 800 Armed Constabulary, the Wanganui and Kai-iwi Cavalry troops and about 200 Whanganuis under Major Keepa. On 1 Feb they were at Nukumaru, and on the following day they advanced to Taurangaika and dug in without enveloping the position. The men, in good heart, sang in the trenches at night. The defenders replied, but during the night evacuated their position. A clever rearguard protected the retreat. At the crossing of the Waitotara river Keepa was ambushed with heavy loss. Whitmore rested a day or two at Patea. Not far off, at Otautu, on the east bank of the river, Titokowaru had established himself fairly strongly. He was surprised on a foggy morning, but made good his escape up the river into the depths of the forest, and thence to Whakamara. In the forest fighting all the prisoners captured by Keepa's men were decapitated in revenge for the mutilation of a kinsman of the Whanganui chief. The enemy having scattered, the troops now made for the open country and emerged from the bush at Taiporohenui. Whitmore heard that Titokowaru was hiding in the security of Te Ngaere swamp. Hurriedly preparing hurdles and fascines, he crossed the swamp during the night of 24 Mar, only to find that Whanganui friendlies were in the pa, temporising with the defenders, and that Titokowaru had escaped towards the upper Waitara. Thus ended a rising which had begun so disastrously for the troops. Having embarked most of the Armed Constabulary, Whitmore visited Waitara to ascertain whether operations were advisable in revenge for the massacre at White Cliffs. The murderers having returned to their own country (Waikato), Whitmore re-embarked and proceeded to Bay of Plenty. Te Kooti and his sympathisers being still active, it was decided to organise three expeditions into the heart of the Urewera to destroy their food and strongholds. Whitmore accompanied the first column, which advanced up the Rangitaiki river with little opposition and junctioned with the Whakatane column at Ruatahuna on 14 May. Discarding the idea of a further advance to join up at Waikaremoana with Herrick's column from Wairoa, Whitmore withdrew with his wounded to Galatea, and left the district to Colonel St John, with instructions to throw an advance post forward towards Taupo to cut off Te Kooti's retreat to the interior. Crippled with rheumatism, he visited Wellington and Auckland to consult the Government, and was returning to resume his command when a new Government came into office and instructed him to go on sick leave. Thus to his great chagrin the operations were never brought to a final issue. Te Kooti remained in the field for many months longer and was finally pardoned. Whitmore received the C.M.G. (15 Jan 1870) for services which had been of immense value to the Colony, especially in demonstrating the fitness of the New Zealand settlers for guerilla warfare and their ability to end the war under the self-reliant policy. Whitmore was brave, tenacious and intrepid to the point of rashness. Inured to hardships himself, he took his full share of the rigours of the campaign and was apt to push his men beyond their endurance. In his relations with the militia and volunteers he was not happy. Indeed he could scarcely have carried the war to a successful conclusion if he had not adopted the principle of recruiting the Constabulary on a regular basis. His position was not improved by the animosities which naturally arose from his dual position as a commander in the field and a politician. In 1869 Whitmore withdrew from the Provincial Council, but he remained a member of the Legislative Council until his death. In his earlier years he generally supported Stafford. In 1877 he was sworn in as a member of the Grey ministry, and held the portfolio of Colonial Secretary until its defeat in 1879. He accompanied Sir George Grey on a visit to Te Whiti, in the vain hope of breaking down his policy of isolation. On 24 May 1882 Whitmore was created K.C.M.G. In 1884 he held office as a member of executive in the short-lived Stout-Vogel Government. At the time of the Russian war scare (Apr 1885) he was appointed commandant of the Colonial Defence Force and commissioner of the Armed Constabulary; and in 1886 he was advanced to the rank of major-general (then for the first time conferred on an officer of the Colonial forces). He resigned the command in 1888. Whitmore had considerable literary attainments. His despatches, even when written in different conditions in the field, showed great facility and literary charm, and his book, The Last Maori War in New Zealand under the Self-Reliant Policy (1902), is refreshingly impartial and pleasantly written. He established a herd book for shorthorn cattle, which he published 1867-70. Whitmore first took up land at Rissington with Major Neale, and afterwards owned the Clive Grange estate. He also, with Beck, held a run at Tokomaru. He married in 1865 Isabel, daughter of William Smith (Rugby, England). He died on 16 Mar 1903. Hawke's Bay P.C. Proc.; N.Z.P.D., pass. (notably 30 Jun 1903); Brett's Almanac, 1879; D.N.B.; Philpott; Gorton; Gudgeon (p); Gisborne (p); Saunders; Reeves; Rusden; Bryce v. Rusden (report of trial); Cowan; Whitmore, op. cit. (p); Lyttelton Times, 22 May 1885; Evening Post, 17 Mar 1934 (p). Portraits: Gudgeon; Cowan; Whitmore; Parliament House.	Volume 2, page 254

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George Stoddart Whitmore

WHITMORE, SIR GEORGE STODDART (1830-1903) was born at Malta, the son of Major George St Vincent Whitmore, R.E., and grandson of General Sir George Whitmore, K.C.H. (colonel-commandant R.E.). His mother was a daughter of Sir J. Stoddart, chief justice of Malta. Educated at the Edinburgh Academy and the Staff College, he received his first commission (23 Jan 1847) as ensign in the Cape Mounted Rifles, with which regiment he first saw active service in the Kaffir wars of 1847 and 1851-53, and in the Boer rising of 1848. In the latter he was present at every engagement and commanded the escort of Sir Harry Smith (Mar-Nov 1851). Promoted lieutenant (21 May 1850), he was appointed brigade-major to the division (1852) and continued to serve under Sir G. Cathcart until the end of the operations. In 1853 he was major of brigade to cavalry. He had two horses shot under him and was repeatedly thanked for his intrepidity, resource and courage.

Promoted captain (7 Jul 1854), he was appointed to the 62nd Foot. In 1855 he proceeded to the Crimea as aide-de-camp to Sir Henry Storks. In the early part of the campaign he was detached on special service in connection with remounts in Hungary, Austria and the principalities, and then with the cavalry of the Turkish contingent in Crimea and Kertch. He was with his own regiment, the 62nd, before Sebastopol. On the termination of the campaign Whitmore was chosen to remain in the Crimea to help wind up the affairs of the army. The methodical and businesslike manner in which his accounts were returned evoked a flattering testimonial from the auditor-general. For his services in the war he received the brevet of major (6 Jun 1856), the Turkish medal, the Medjidieh (4th class) and three British medals. On his return to England he took command of the regimental depot in Ireland, but was shortly appointed aide-de-camp to Sir W. Eyre, commander-in-chief in Canada. In 1860 he was admitted to the staff college, and at the end of the following year he passed out first.

In Jan 1861 Whitmore sailed for New Zealand as military secretary to Sir Duncan Cameron. When as a result of interference by the political authority Cameron resigned, Whitmore also proffered his resignation. Cameron's offer was declined by the War Office, but that of Whitmore was accepted as a matter of course. He accordingly retired by selling his commission (7 Nov 1862) and became a landowner in Hawkes Bay. In Dec 1862 he was appointed to the commission of the peace, and in Mar 1863 he became civil commissioner for the Ahuriri district in succession to Lieut-colonel A. H. Russell. A few months later he was appointed major commanding the military district of Napier, and then chief inspector of the Colonial Defence Force. Almost immediately fighting broke out again in Taranaki in consequence of the murder of Lieut Tragett and Dr Hope. Whitmore volunteered to serve under Cameron, and took part in all the operations up to the action at Katikara (4 Jun 1863). He accompanied Cameron to Waikato, and was present at the battle of Orakau. He then returned to Hawkes Bay. He was appointed commandant of the Colonial Defence Force in Jul 1863, and two months later was called to the Legislative Council.

During most of the year 1865 Whitmore was on a visit to England, and so missed the operations of that period. Not long after his return to Hawkes Bay the province was threatened by a Hauhau invasion from the Taupo country, and Whitmore was called upon to command the local defence force. Hurriedly raising a force, he marched out of Napier on the night of 17 Oct 1866 with 200 volunteers and a strong body of friendly natives under Locke, Tareha and Renata Kawepo, and took up a position on the Tutaekuri river. Early next morning the Hauhau position at Omarunui was surrounded and attacked, and after a sharp fight practically the whole of the enemy were killed or captured, including amongst the former the Hauhau preacher Panapa. Colonel Fraser had meanwhile surprised the small mounted force under Te Rangihiroa which threatened Napier from the direction of Petane. Thus the invasion ended.

Whitmore now entered into local politics, being elected in Apr 1867 to represent Wairoa in the Provincial Council. Towards the end of the year he was appointed commandant of the newly organised Armed Constabulary force. In the middle of 1868 alarm was caused by the escape of Te Kooti and his followers from the Chatham islands and the invasion of Poverty Bay. With the permission of the Government, Whitmore raised in Napier a small force of 30 paid volunteers. They arrived in H.M.S. Rosario too late to assist the settlers in their fight at Paparata, and the raiders made good their escape with a large number of captured horses and camp equipage. Having suffered considerable hardship and reached the limits of the district in which they could be called upon to fight, the local settlers refused to continue the pursuit, and Whitmore was compelled to await reinforcements. An overbearing manner and inconsiderate demands on this and other occasions were responsible for much resentment on the part of the militia and volunteers, to whom the rigid discipline of the regular army was distasteful. The pause in the pursuit allowed Te Kooti to inflict another reverse upon the Wairoa contingent and to make his escape to the bush some days ahead of Whitmore. Though weakened by the departure of the Poverty Bay settlers, Whitmore followed with great intrepidity and came up with the rearguard in the rugged bed of the Ruakiture river in the afternoon of 8 Aug. With his force of only 118 (of whom 76 were Europeans) he maintained the pursuit until dusk, crossing the river no less than eight times. The retreating enemy fought fiercely, and inflicted such losses that Whitmore prudently broke off the engagement at dusk and with great difficulty brought off his wounded. Te Kooti himself was borne into the bush wounded. Lack of provisions compelled a retirement of the exhausted column, leaving its dead behind. Whitmore hastened to Poverty Bay and thence by sea to Wellington to consult the Government. Meanwhile a severe reverse had been sustained by the Colonial forces at Te Ngutu-o-te-Manu, on the West Coast. Whitmore offered, in view of the shortage of officers, to serve under McDonnell; but the Defence Minister (Haultain) found the force so disorganised by the reverse that he ordered its retirement to Patea and entrusted to Whitmore the command of the whole of the troops between the Wanganui and Hangatahua rivers. The Wellington and Nelson men took their discharge, and von Tempsky's Forest Rangers were disbanded, openly disaffected after the loss of their leader. The only unit fit for service was the No. 1 (Hawkes Bay) division of the Armed Constabulary. Whitmore took it with him to the West Coast, and set to work reorganising and drilling, while the Government with great energy recruited in distant provinces and in Australia for regular enlistment in the Constabulary. Whitmore's experience in irregular warfare in South Africa was of great value to the Colony, enabling him to create a new force which was eminently suitable for the work ahead of it. Meanwhile Titokowaru was actively harassing the countryside, and Whitmore considered it advisable to withdraw his headquarters to Wairoa (Waverley), whence with the help of native kupapas, he obstructed the advance of the enemy towards the settlements at Wanganui. Titokowaru had fixed his headquarters at Moturoa, four miles to the northward, and Whitmore decided to attack him without delay. The assault was launched on the morning of 7 Nov 1868. The fighting was very hot. As it developed Whitmore conceived that the position was too strong for the force at his disposal, and decided to draw off. Though he did so in good order and effected his retreat to Wairoa, he had made one of his worst military blunders. Had he continued the attack he must have succeeded. The reverse at Moturoa, one of the most desperate actions in the war, dealt another blow at the confidence of the Colonial forces. Whitmore fell back to the Waitotara river and then to Nukumaru in the hope of covering Wanganui. The garrisons at Wairoa and Patea were now the only posts held by the colonists between the Wanganui front and the Waingongoro river in Taranaki.

The position was obviously critical, and Whitmore offered to resign. Fortunately he still enjoyed the confidence of the Defence Minister. Titokowaru advanced further, and constructed elaborate works at Taurangaika, only 18 miles from Wanganui. At this juncture news was received of the massacre in Poverty Bay on 10 Nov. Reinforcements in the circumstances could not be spared for the West Coast, so after consultation with Haultain Whitmore destroyed what stores he could not carry off and withdrew his troops to the Kai-iwi river. This front would have to maintain itself as well as possible, with the help of the incomparable cavalry troops of Bryce and Finnimore, while Whitmore hastened with his most reliable troops to succour Poverty Bay. On 12 Dec he sailed with 212 of the Armed Constabulary. A few days later he met at Patutahi, Poverty Bay, a force under Preece and Ropata returning from an unsuccessful assault on Te Kooti's stronghold at Ngatapa. Ropata was too prudent to accede to Whitmore's exhortation to renew the attack at once, and the troops camped at Makaraka to await reinforcements. On 24 Dec Whitmore advanced with four divisions of Armed Constabulary (400 strong) and 350 of the Ngati-Porou commanded by Ropata. By the 31st he was entrenched on a hill half a mile from the enemy position, which had been greatly strengthened. On the following day he completed the investment. The Coehorn mortar was brought into action, and a three-days' siege commenced. The outer and second lines of defence were carried, but on the night of 4 Jan 1869 the main body of the enemy made their escape by an unguarded precipice. Many were captured in the hot pursuit. Every male prisoner was shot, 120 out of 136 killed being thus executed after capture; and 150 were wounded in the fighting. The Government losses were 7 killed and 11 wounded. Te Kooti with a few followers fled into the Urewera country.

No sooner was the defeat of the enemy accomplished, than Whitmore embarked with the Armed Constabulary and a new division of Arawa, landing at Wanganui on 18 Jan. He now advanced rapidly with his whole force of 800 Armed Constabulary, the Wanganui and Kai-iwi Cavalry troops and about 200 Whanganuis under Major Keepa. On 1 Feb they were at Nukumaru, and on the following day they advanced to Taurangaika and dug in without enveloping the position. The men, in good heart, sang in the trenches at night. The defenders replied, but during the night evacuated their position. A clever rearguard protected the retreat. At the crossing of the Waitotara river Keepa was ambushed with heavy loss. Whitmore rested a day or two at Patea. Not far off, at Otautu, on the east bank of the river, Titokowaru had established himself fairly strongly. He was surprised on a foggy morning, but made good his escape up the river into the depths of the forest, and thence to Whakamara. In the forest fighting all the prisoners captured by Keepa's men were decapitated in revenge for the mutilation of a kinsman of the Whanganui chief. The enemy having scattered, the troops now made for the open country and emerged from the bush at Taiporohenui. Whitmore heard that Titokowaru was hiding in the security of Te Ngaere swamp. Hurriedly preparing hurdles and fascines, he crossed the swamp during the night of 24 Mar, only to find that Whanganui friendlies were in the pa, temporising with the defenders, and that Titokowaru had escaped towards the upper Waitara. Thus ended a rising which had begun so disastrously for the troops. Having embarked most of the Armed Constabulary, Whitmore visited Waitara to ascertain whether operations were advisable in revenge for the massacre at White Cliffs. The murderers having returned to their own country (Waikato), Whitmore re-embarked and proceeded to Bay of Plenty.

Te Kooti and his sympathisers being still active, it was decided to organise three expeditions into the heart of the Urewera to destroy their food and strongholds. Whitmore accompanied the first column, which advanced up the Rangitaiki river with little opposition and junctioned with the Whakatane column at Ruatahuna on 14 May. Discarding the idea of a further advance to join up at Waikaremoana with Herrick's column from Wairoa, Whitmore withdrew with his wounded to Galatea, and left the district to Colonel St John, with instructions to throw an advance post forward towards Taupo to cut off Te Kooti's retreat to the interior. Crippled with rheumatism, he visited Wellington and Auckland to consult the Government, and was returning to resume his command when a new Government came into office and instructed him to go on sick leave. Thus to his great chagrin the operations were never brought to a final issue. Te Kooti remained in the field for many months longer and was finally pardoned. Whitmore received the C.M.G. (15 Jan 1870) for services which had been of immense value to the Colony, especially in demonstrating the fitness of the New Zealand settlers for guerilla warfare and their ability to end the war under the self-reliant policy. Whitmore was brave, tenacious and intrepid to the point of rashness. Inured to hardships himself, he took his full share of the rigours of the campaign and was apt to push his men beyond their endurance. In his relations with the militia and volunteers he was not happy. Indeed he could scarcely have carried the war to a successful conclusion if he had not adopted the principle of recruiting the Constabulary on a regular basis. His position was not improved by the animosities which naturally arose from his dual position as a commander in the field and a politician.

In 1869 Whitmore withdrew from the Provincial Council, but he remained a member of the Legislative Council until his death. In his earlier years he generally supported Stafford. In 1877 he was sworn in as a member of the Grey ministry, and held the portfolio of Colonial Secretary until its defeat in 1879. He accompanied Sir George Grey on a visit to Te Whiti, in the vain hope of breaking down his policy of isolation. On 24 May 1882 Whitmore was created K.C.M.G. In 1884 he held office as a member of executive in the short-lived Stout-Vogel Government. At the time of the Russian war scare (Apr 1885) he was appointed commandant of the Colonial Defence Force and commissioner of the Armed Constabulary; and in 1886 he was advanced to the rank of major-general (then for the first time conferred on an officer of the Colonial forces). He resigned the command in 1888.

Whitmore had considerable literary attainments. His despatches, even when written in different conditions in the field, showed great facility and literary charm, and his book, The Last Maori War in New Zealand under the Self-Reliant Policy (1902), is refreshingly impartial and pleasantly written. He established a herd book for shorthorn cattle, which he published 1867-70. Whitmore first took up land at Rissington with Major Neale, and afterwards owned the Clive Grange estate. He also, with Beck, held a run at Tokomaru. He married in 1865 Isabel, daughter of William Smith (Rugby, England). He died on 16 Mar 1903.

Hawke's Bay P.C. Proc.; N.Z.P.D., pass. (notably 30 Jun 1903); Brett's Almanac, 1879; D.N.B.; Philpott; Gorton; Gudgeon (p); Gisborne (p); Saunders; Reeves; Rusden; Bryce v. Rusden (report of trial); Cowan; Whitmore, op. cit. (p); Lyttelton Times, 22 May 1885; Evening Post, 17 Mar 1934 (p). Portraits: Gudgeon; Cowan; Whitmore; Parliament House.

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NameGeorge Stoddart Whitmore Biography