DE CASTRO, CHARLES DANIELL (1832-98) was born in London and educated in England and France and at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. In 1853 he came to New Zealand in the Cornwall and after teaching a school took up a farm at Porirua. He represented Wellington Country in the Provincial Council (1863-65). In 1867 he was secretary to the colonial commissioner of Imperial claims and in 1868 he joined the civil service, serving in the Treasury and the Public Trust office to 1892. In 1875 de Castro took holy orders as a deacon and he officiated in Wellington and Nelson as required. He died on 23 Jun 1898.

Cycl. N.Z., i; N.Z. Times, 24 Jun 1898.

Reference: Volume 1, page 116

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