KINSEY, SIR JOSEPH JAMES (1852-1936) was born at Plumstead, Kent, educated at the Royal Naval School at Greenwich, and for nine years was a master in the lower school at Dulwich College. He married (1872) Sarah Ann Garrard, and in 1880 arrived in New Zealand. Kinsey founded the shipping firm of Kinsey and Co., of which he was chairman at his death (on 5 May 1936). He was a foundation member of the Christchurch Liedertafel, a life member of the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association, a governor of Canterbury College (1894-97) and a Canterbury commissioner for the South Seas Exhibition at Dunedin (1889-90). He was keenly interested in Antarctic exploration, and acted as attorney for Captain R. F. Scott's two expeditions and for one of Sir E. Shackleton's. He received the Scott medal of the Royal Geographical Society (1914), and was knighted in 1917.

The Press, 6 May 1936; Evening Post, 10 May.

Reference: Volume 1, page 251

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