DANIELL, EDWARD (1802-66) was the son of Ralph Allen Daniell, of Cornwall. He served in the army in the 75th (Gordon Highlanders) and having attained the rank of captain and adjutant, sold his commission and invested in the lands of the New Zealand Company. He was one of the first committee of settlers. Arriving by the Adelaide in Mar 1840, he was a member of the provisional committee of government.

He had bought 1,100 acres from the Company, but being unable to gain possession of it he lived in Wellington for 10 years. Meanwhile he found a suitable piece of land for a farm at Ngaio, which he called Trelissick, and he constructed a road up to it which was afterwards widened and continued through to Porirua (1845). At the request of Colonel Wakefield, Daniell and Duppa visited the South Island in 1848 to report on its suitability for the Canterbury settlement. In 1849 he was allowed to select 250 acres for every 100 that he had bought, and he picked 2,500 acres of very good land at Bulls, where (after visiting England in 1855) he erected his Killeymoon homestead. A portion of his land he cut up in 1866 for the town of Bulls.

Daniell bred fine horses at his run at Hikungarara. He represented Wanganui and Rangitikei in the Wellington Provincial Council (1853-55). He died on 5 Aug 1866.

E. J. Wakefield; Ward; J. G. Wilson.

Reference: Volume 1, page 113

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