DOMETT

Alfred ( son of Nathaniel Domett of Camber well Grove, Surrey ). b. Camber well Grove 20 May 1811; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; barrister M.T. 19 Nov. 1841; went to New Zealand 1842; colonial sec. for New Munster (the Middle island of New Zealand) 1848; sec. for New Zealand 1851; comr. of crown lands, and resident magistrate of Hawke’s Bay 1853–6; M.P. for Nelson 1855; prime minister 1862–3; registrar general of lands 1865; administrator of confiscated lands 1870–71; author of Venice 1839 a poem; Narrative of the Wairoan ma acre 1843; Ordinances of New Zealand cla ified 1850; Ranolf and Amohia, a South Sea day dream 1872, 2 ed. 1883; Flotsam and Jetsam, rhymes old and new 1877. d. 32 St. Charles sq. North Kensington, London 2 Nov. 1887. W. Gisborne’s New Zealand Rulers (1886) 134, portrait .