SCOTLAND, HENRY (1821-1910) was born at Muswell Hill, London, the youngest son of George Scotland, C.B., chief justice of Trinidad. Educated at the Merchant Taylors' School and St John's College, Oxford, he read for the bar and was called in 1849. In the following year he came to New Zealand in the Eden and settled in Taranaki, living close to New Plymouth, where he practised law for many years. In 1852 he contested the Taranaki seat in the Legislative Council of New Ulster (against Wicksteed and J. C. Richmond). In 1868 he was called to the Legislative Council, of which he was one of the last life members. He inclined to favour single-chamber government, but in later years consistently defended life nomination as giving the members greater independence of the party in power. Scotland attended to his duties punctiliously until within a few weeks of his death. He lost a considerable part of his fortune in the bank crisis of the nineties, and afterwards left Taranaki and lived at Pahi, Auckland. He died at Wellington on 27 Jul 1910.

N.Z.P.D., 27 Jul, 3 Aug 1910; N.Z. Herald, 15 Feb 1875; Evening Post, 27 Jul 1910. Portrait: Parliament House.

Reference: Volume 2, page 142

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