MACLEAN, CHARLES RICHARD ALDER LENDRICK (1833-96) was born at Dublin and educated at Dublin University with a view to taking holy orders. After being ordained, he came to New Zealand to undertake duty in the Nelson diocese. He had qualified in law when he joined the staff of Nelson College as assistant in 1863, and he was headmaster (1864-68). On his resignation he was appointed registrar of the Supreme Court at Nelson. Maclean was M.P.C. for Buller (1873-75), and edited the Colonist for a short time. In 1875 he started to practise law at Bulls. In 1879 he contested the Rangitikei seat against Major Willis. About 1884 he removed to Kaikoura, but he came back to Feilding on the death of his wife and died there in 1896. Maclean was an active freemason. Initiated in the Southern Star lodge at Nelson (1871), he helped to found a lodge at Bulls and was P.D.G.S.W. (1888).

Family information; Nelson Coll. Reg.; Rangitikei Advocate, Sep 1879. Portrait: General Assembly Library.

Reference: Volume 2, page 19

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