WEST, LUDOLPH GEORG (1846-1919) was born in Denmark, and educated at a college on the island of Falster and at the Agricultural College in Copenhagen. He came to New Zealand in the Matoaka (1868), and shortly afterwards settled in Manawatu. In 1878 he married a daughter of E. Bannister (Johnsonville). After her death (1891) he married a daughter of C. W. Greenwood (Akaroa). As an architect he designed many of the private dwellings and public buildings in early Palmerston North. During the Hauhau war he served in the cavalry volunteers, returning to his home in 1869. He was mayor of the borough (1886-87) and a member of the Wanganui hospital board. He contested the Manawatu seat in parliament (1885).

Cycl. N.Z., ii (p)

Reference: Volume 2, page 244

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