HALSWELL, EDMUND STORR, a son of Henry Halswell, of Presteign, Radnorshire, was admitted to the Middle Temple in 1831 and called in 1834. As a shareholder and a member of the committee of the Church of England Society, he was appointed by the New Zealand Company as commissioner of native reserves, and arrived in the Lady Nugent (1841). He was appointed a magistrate in May, chairman of quarter sessions and protector of aborigines for the Southern district (Jul 1841), and judge of the county court (Feb 1842). In 1842 he tried and convicted a young Maori chief for theft. In 1845 he was an officer of the defence organisation in the Te Aro district. He shortly afterwards left the Colony.

G.B.O.P., 1842/569; 1846/722; E. J. Wakefield; Ward.

Reference: Volume 1, page 191

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