Of Dusseldorf
OBITUARY: THOMAS DYKE ACLAND.
Another familiar face in Christchurch has gone. At an early hour yesterday Mr T. D. Acland, principal in the firm of Acland,
Dudley and Co., share brokers and general agents, died, after a short illness, at the comparatively early age of forty-six. He had for some months been a sufferer from a combination of diseases, of which gout was the principal, and had recently paid a visit to Sydney for a change of air. During his stay there, however, he was taken ill, and returned here none the better
for his trip. He was present at the polo races at Riccarton on March 12, but could remain only for a short time. On Monday
he went to the Rhodes Convalescent Home, but his disease had then taken too firm a hold on him, and he gradually sank, the end coming at 6:30 a.m. yesterday.
Mr Acland was the eldest son of the Rev L.D. Acland, and was a nephew of the Hon J. B. A. Acland owner of the Mount Peel Station. The Acland family is one of the oldest in the County of Devon. Mr. T.D. Acland was educated at Rugby, and arrived in the Colony when quite a young man. After gaining experience of Colonial life, on his uncle's estate, he settled in Christchurch, engaging in business with which he has been familiarly known ever since. He has always taken a prominent part in sporting circles, and for a number of years has officiatd at Riccarton as clerk of the scales. Mr Acland was a widower, his wife having did several years ago. He leaves one son.
Source: Star , Issue 7236, 21 March 1892, Page 4
Known as Leo, he was educated at Christ's College and he worked on Mt Peel (owned by his grandfather's brother John Barton Arundel Dyke Acland) and Cracroft Stations. From 1897 he owned many properties: Glentanner Station (near Mt Cook), Braemar Station in the Mackenzie Country, North Clumbar at Hororata, and Cecil Peak by Wakatipu. He is also thought to have owned property at the Lanercost and Loburn.
He served with the Rough Riders in the South African War (Boer War). He travelled through New Guinea and India before settling for a time in Japan where he managed a shipping office at Kobe. He then travelled to Moscow and St. Petersburg on the trans-Siberian railway and returned to New Zealand via England.
In World War One he joined the Army Service Corps and served as a major. He won the Military Cross at Gallipoli. He was awarded the OBE.
He settled ultimately at Hororata.
Acland was passionately interested in farming and his book , " The Early Canterbury Runs", was first published in 1930. It was revised and enlarged in 1946 and agian in 1951 and is one of New Zealand's most famous history resource books.
Rector Of Nymet St. George, Devon
1901 Census: Occupation: Student Graduate of Oxford Univ
1901 Census - Age last birthday 9
Of Christchurch, New Zealand
1901 Census - Occupation: Medical student
Commonwealth War Graves Commission:
ACLAND, JOHN HENRY DYKE
Rank: Captain
Date of Death: 12/07/1916
Age: 36
Regiment/Service: Royal Army Medical Corps attd. 1st Bn. Somerset Light Infantry
Grave Reference: I. H. 16.
Cemetery: SUCRERIE MILITARY CEMETERY, COLINCAMPS, Somme, FranceAdditional Information: Son of the late Rev. Henry Dyke Acland and Mrs. Acland, of Devon; husband of Elizabeth Margaret Acland, of 7, Gloucester Place, Marylebone, London.
"England and Wales Census, 1861," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M718-FT8 : accessed 24 Dec 2013), Frederick V Lysaght, 1861.