KINROSS, ANDREW (1829-1915) was born near Glasgow. Losing both parents early, he went to sea in 1847 and a year later emigrated to Australia and obtained employment at Langi Kal-Kal station. In 1852 he visited the goldfield at Fryers Creek, and then engaged in carrying to the goldfields. In 1853 he married, and in 1861 he came to Port Chalmers in the brig Dunedin. Shortly afterwards he settled at Invercargill, where he engaged in carrying to the goldfields. He opened a store at Queenstown in partnership with Brown and Pritchard and, having sold his teams, invested in house property and a farm at Myross Bush (1865).

Kinross was a member of the Southland Provincial Council for Invercargill (1869) and for Roslin (1869-70), and was on the executive. On the reunion with Otago he sat in the Otago Council (for Southland 1870; for Oteramika 1873-75). He moved a resolution affirming that all men over 21 years of age should be eligible to vote for superintendents and members of parliament or provincial councils. Kinross contested the Invercargill parliamentary seat against Shanks in 1878. He was elected to the Southland education board (1869), was a member of the land board from 1878-80 and 1885-1909, of the Southland county council, and chairman of the Myross school committee (1869), and the Lindhurst road board.

Kinross wrote a good deal of verse of passable quality, a selection of which was republished in My Life and Lays (1899). He died on 19 Nov 1915.

Southland and Otago p.c. Proc.; Cycl. NZ, iv (p); Kinross (p); Southland Times, 20 Nov 1915.

Reference: Volume 1, page 251

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