WAYNE, FREDERICK (1834-1901) was the son of the Rev. W. H. Wayne, vicar of Much Wenlock, Shropshire. Educated at Bridgenorth school and Trinity College, Cambridge, he intended to study medicine, but became a partner with Colonel Kitchener (father of Lord Kitchener) in the Kerry estate, near Tralee, county Kerry, which they improved by drainage and transformed into good wheat-growing country. Having studied at the School of Mines in London the investigation of mineral lands, he came to Sydney in 1859 and to New Zealand in the following year.

In partnership with Captain James Hamilton and John Cotton Rowley, he took up the Taieri Lake station, Otago, and later the Shag Valley estate, on both of which he erected a homestead and yards. His station lay on the road from Waikouaiti inland, which was afterwards one of the main routes to the goldfields. He erected a substantial store on the Shag river in 1865. Colonel Kitchener became a partner in the station and eventually took it over, and Wayne bought Akatore, near Tokomairiro. This he held from 1871 to 1885, when he retired and became a land and estate agent. In 1865 he married Agatha Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. George Barber (Cambridge, England). He was a justice of the peace from 1862.

Wayne represented Hampden in the House of Representatives (1863-66). He afterwards lived for many years in Milton, where he was a member of the Bruce county council. He died on 10 Apr 1901.

Family information; Cycl. N.Z., iv; Daily Times, 7 May 1901

Reference: Volume 2, page 240

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