CHURCH, HUBERT (1857-1932) was born at Hobart, Tasmania. He was taken to England as a child and received his education there, eventually proceeding to Oxford. Returning to New Zealand in 1873, he studied law in Blenheim and then entered the civil service. He was a treasury official for 33 years, retiring in 1912. Church published verse at various times, his best known books being West Wind (1902); Poems (1904), and Egmont Poems (1908). He died at Melbourne on 8 Apr 1932.

Jessie Mackay in The Press, 14 May 1932.

Reference: Volume 1, page 95

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