HASLAM, FRANCIS WILLIAM CHAPMAN (1848-1924), born at Cotta, Ceylon, was a son of the Rev. J. Haslam, of St John's College, Cambridge, who was a translator of the Bible into Sinhalese. He was educated at Rugby, where he was head of the school, and at St John's College, Cambridge, where he was a foundation scholar and exhibitioner. After teaching at Manchester and Tonbridge schools, and at the Westward Ho military college, Devon, he was appointed professor of classics at Canterbury College in 1879. Haslam was an active member and a president of the Philosophical Institute. Interested in colonial defence, he was president of the Navy League, and during the war of 1914-18 undertook the recruiting of Ashley county. He retired from the University in 1912 and died in 1924.

Cycl. N.Z., iii; Who's Who N.Z., 1908; Hight and Candy (p).

Reference: Volume 1, page 200

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