ENYS, JOHN DAVIES GILBERT (1837-1912) was born near Falmouth, Cornwall, where the family lived for many generations. He came to New Zealand in 1861 and took up Castle Hill station, Canterbury. For a short time also he owned Orari Gorge, which he sold back to the Tripps in 1864.

Enys was a keen naturalist and was the earliest authority in New Zealand on moths and butterflies. He represented Rakaia in the Provincial Council (1872-74), and in 1881 he contested the Coleridge seat in Parliament against D. Macmillan. Having inherited the family seat of Enys, in Cornwall, in 1890, he went to live there and died in 1912.

Canterbury P.C. Proc.; Cox; Acland; Natural Hist. of Canterbury.

Reference: Volume 1, page 133

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