STEELE, DAVID PIKE (1827-93) was born in Glasgow and spent most of his boyhood in Rothesay, where he attended the parish school and Scougall's academy. Emigrating to New Zealand in the Lady Nugent (1850), he took up land at Wingatui, Taieri, but removed in 1853 to Warepa, where he was a neighbour and close friend of Sir John Richardson. Steele was elected to the Provincial Council in 1859 to represent Clutha (with Richardson as a colleague). He resigned in 1864 to go to Victoria, where his mother lived, and died at Heidelberg, in that colony, on 22 Aug 1893.

Otago P.C. Proc.; John Wilson; Otago Daily Times, 3 Oct 1893.

Reference: Volume 2, page 166

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