James Busby

James Busby

Infobox Officeholder



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name =James Busby
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office =British Resident of New Zealand
term_start =March 1832
term_end =28 January 1840 [For a year overlapping 1835-6, Busby shared this office with Thomas McDonnell]
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predecessor ="Office established"
successor ="Office discontinued"
office2 =Bay of Islands councillor
term_start2 =1853
term_end2 =1855
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office3 =Bay of Islands councillor [ [http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/B/BusbyJames/BusbyJames/en James Busby, Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand] ]
term_start3 =1857
term_end3 =1863
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birth_place =Scotland
birth_date =7 February 1801
death_place =Anerley, England
death_date =15 July 1871

James Busby (7 February 1801 - 15 July 1871) was involved in the drafting of the Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand, the Treaty of Waitangi and is widely regarded as the "father" of the Australian wine industry, as he took the first collection of vine stock from Spain and France to Australia. He was New Zealand's first public servant.

Life

He was born in Scotland, the son of English engineer John Busby, and the family imigrated from Britain to New South Wales in 1824.

Busby soon returned to England where he worked for the government before visiting Spain and France to study viticulture. In March 1832 he was appointed to the position of British Resident of New Zealand and went to the Bay of Islands, taking with him some of the vine stock he had collected in Europe. He married Agnes Dow at Segenhoe, in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales on 1 November 1832.

A house was completed for him at Waitangi where he planted a vineyard from which wine was being made before his vines were productive in Australia. (Long before Busby arrived at Waitangi, missionary Samuel Marsden had already planted vines at nearby Kerikeri, on September 25 1819).His duties were to protect British commerce, control and mediate between the unruly Pākehā settlers and Māori in New Zealand. However he was not provided with any resources to impose this authority.

James Busby proposed that New Zealand should have a national flag, after an unregistered New Zealand ship was seized in Australia. A selection of three or four designs was sent from Australia, and one was chosen by the Māori chiefs at a meeting at his residency on 20 March 1834; see United Tribes of New Zealand.

In 1835 Busby learned that Baron Charles Philippe Hippolyte de Thierry, a Frenchman, was proposing to declare French sovereignty over New Zealand. He drafted the Declaration of the Independence of New Zealand and at a meeting in October signed it together with 35 chiefs from the northern part of New Zealand.

After the arrival of William Hobson, he co-authored with him the Treaty of Waitangi. It was signed on 5 and 6 February 1840 on the lawn outside his residence. Busby and his family left Waitangi that year.

He died in Anerley, England of 'congestion of the lungs' in 1871 and is buried at West Norwood Cemetery in London. His wife returned to New Zealand where she died, at Pakaraka in 1889, and is buried at Paihia.

The Waitangi property, on which the Treaty was signed, was derelict until the 1930s, when it was purchased by the Governor-General of the day Viscount Bledisloe and donated to the nation.

Published writings

* "Treatise on the Culture of the Vine" (1825)
* "A Manual of Plain Directions for Planting and Cultivating Vineyards and for Making Wine in New South Wales" (Sydney 1830)
* "Journal of a Tour through some of the vineyards of Spain and France" (Sydney 1833)

ee also

* Treaty of Waitangi
* Australian wine
* New Zealand wine
* List of wine personalities

References

External links

* [http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P000283b.htm James Busby, Melbourne University]
* [http://www.waitangi.net.nz Waitangi Treaty Grounds]
* [http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/B/BusbyJames/BusbyJames/en James Busby, Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand]
* [http://www.dnzb.govt.nz James Busby, from the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography]
* [http://www.fownc.org/newsletters/no48.shtml Newsletter 48, Friends of West Norwood Cemetery]

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