STONES, WILLIAM, as a young man made a voyage to New Zealand in the James (1839), spent a year or two in the country and, after returning to England, published in the Journal of the Society of Arts (1858) an interesting article "My First Voyage." This was awarded the Society's prize and afterwards republished (1859). Stones married a daughter of Sir Sydney Waterlow, Lord Mayor of London. He was drowned many years later when crossing the Channel.

Hocken; Gideon Smales in N.Z. Herald, 6 Jan 1894.

Reference: Volume 2, page 172

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