FOX, EDWARD BURTON, was born at Musselburgh, Scotland, his father being provost of the town. As a young man he was a good horseman and a member of the Midlothian Yeomanry Cavalry. He emigrated to Victoria and had an adventurous life on the goldfields. Crossing later to New Zealand, he was for a while in Wellington and then settled on the West Coast. For some years he was storekeeping and gold buying at Brunnerton. He was chairman of his road board and in 1872 a member of the Westland county council. He wrote The Nobbler (by Christopher Sy, revised and corrected by E. B. Fox). Fox died about 1875.

Westland C.C. Proc.; Hindmarsh.

Reference: Volume 1, page 154

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