CLAPCOTT, HENRY (1830-97) was born in England and educated for the church, but decided to emigrate and came to Otago in the Carnatic with his brother (1853). He walked as far as Riverton and visited Ruapuke, taking up land at Inch Clutha and Spylaw, which he exchanged for Popotunoa. Losing these runs by the declaration of hundreds, he went to the goldfields and made a good profit by running a slaughterhouse on the diggings between Gabriel's and Munro's gullies. In 1864 Clapcott was elected to the Provincial Council for Wakatipu, and he was treasurer in Paterson's executive. On the executive being defeated, he resigned from the Council to contest the superintendency, but withdrew before the poll. He was a trustee of the Dunedin Savings Bank (1864). In 1873 he was registrar of the University of Otago, and he was engaged in the eighties lecturing for the Government Life Insurance department. Clapcott died on 19 Sep 1897.

Otago P.C. Proc.; Beattie, ii; I.M.I. in Evening Star, 21 Sep 1897; Otago Daily Times, 21 Sep 1897, 23 Mar 1898.

Reference: Volume 1, page 95

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