SHERRIN, RICHARD ARUNDELL AUGUR (1832-93) came to New Zealand in the late fifties. In Jan 1863 he was engaged with his brother William prospecting and pioneering on the West Coast of the South Island. Jacob Lauper (q.v.) tried to reach their camp at the mouth of the Grey river after the death of Whitcombe. He was in camp with Townend at the mouth of the Taramakau when Howitt (q.v.) was lost, and he took a leading part in the search. Sherrin's boat was swamped in the Grey river in Sep, he and a Maori being the only survivors of five occupants. He afterwards engaged in journalism, and was for a time (about 1879-80) editor of the New Zealander, which was established to support Grey in Wellington. In Auckland he edited the Freeman's Journal in the early eighties and Labour (a weekly) in 1884-85. He published a pamphlet demanding an inquiry into the financial condition of New Zealand (1881) and compiled an official handbook of the fishes of New Zealand (1886). Sherrin's best known work was a history of New Zealand from the earliest times to 1840, which formed the first half of Brett's large publication in 1890. He died on 7 Jan 1893.

Canterbury Gaz., vol x, no 10; Cycl. N.Z., i; Howitt, ii, p. 441; Hindmarsh; The Press, 21, 24, 25 Mar 1863.

Reference: Volume 2, page 152

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