KEDDELL, JACKSON (1831-1910) was born in Kent and educated at Arno's Court, Somersetshire. In 1850 he became a cornet in the 16th Lancers, but shortly resigned and emigrated to Australia, where in 1853 he joined the Victorian Mounted Police. He was present at Eureka Stockade. While holding the rank of sub-inspector he paid a visit to Otago (1861) during Branigan's organisation of the mounted police in that province. On the discovery by Hartley and Reilly at the Dunstan in 1862, he was appointed warden there. In the following year Keddell raised a troop on the goldfields for service in the Maori war. He served under General Cameron through the Waikato campaign and in 1864 was promoted major. In 1868 he was appointed resident magistrate and warden on the Thames fields, and some time later went into partnership with his colleague L. Broad as mining agents. He was resident magistrate at Coromandel (1870-79), in Central Otago (1879-85), Greymouth (1885-92) and Oamaru where he died on 17 Nov 1910.

Keddell married first (1864) May, daughter of William Corbett, chief postmaster at Auckland; and second (1882) a daughter of R. McCracken, Otago.

Gilkison; Cycl. N.Z., iv (p); Otago Daily Times, 5 Dec 1910.

Reference: Volume 1, page 243

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