HURSTHOUSE, CHARLES FLINDERS (1812-76) was born in England. At the age of 19 he was sent to the United States and Canada to report on the prospects for settling there. He advised the family to turn their attention to New Zealand and he came to Nelson in 1842. From Wellington he walked to New Plymouth, where he spent five years, and then revisited England. There he published An Account of the Settlement of New Plymouth (1849) and lectured to induce emigrants to come to the Colony. He came back in the Joseph Fletcher in 1854 with other members of the family, but returned to England at once and was not able to come here again for 15 years. During that time he published New Zealand, the Britain of the South (1860), a Letter to Australian Colonists (1867), The Incorporation of the British Colonies in the Home Empire (1867), the New Zealand Handbook, A Short Synoptical View Of New Zealand To-day (1867), Australian Independence (1870), and a number of pamphlets. He was thanked by the Taranaki Provincial Council for his services to the province. Hursthouse came to New Zealand again by the Halcione in 1870. He died on 23 Nov 1876.

Hocken, Bibliog.; Taranaki Herald, 24 Nov 1876.

Reference: Volume 1, page 228

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