ANGAS, GEORGE FRENCH (1822-86) was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne, the son of George Fife Angas (1789-1879), who was associated with the South Australian Land Co., and whose information of the designs of the French (in Dec 1838) hastened the action of the Colonial Office in gaining possession of New Zealand. Educated at Tavistock for business, his tastes were artistic, and he studied lithography and anatomical drawing. Going to South Australia in 1843, he accompanied Governor Grey on some of his explorations, making sketches and drawings. He came to New Zealand in 1844, and made many pictures in the North Island, notably about the Taupo district, which he used for his great work, The New Zealanders Illustrated (published in London in 1847), and Savage Life and Scenes in Australia and New Zealand (1847). Angas spent two years in South Africa doing similar work. He was secretary of the Australian Museum in Sydney from 1853, and returned to England in 1861, where he died on 8 Oct 1886.

Austral. Encycl.; Angas, op. cit.; Loyau; Hodder, George Fife Angas, 1891

Reference: Volume 1, page 24

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