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FREDERICK EDWARD MANING (1812-1883)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 582 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FREDERICK See also:EDWARD See also:MANING (1812-1883)  , New See also:Zealand See also:judge and author, son of See also:Frederick See also:Maning, of Johnville, See also:county See also:Dublin, was See also:born on the 5th of See also:July 1812 . His See also:father emigrated to See also:Tasmania in the See also:ship " Ardent " in 1824 and took up a See also:grant of See also:land there . See also:Young Maning served in the fatuous expedition which attempted to drive in the Tasmanian blacks by sweeping with an unbroken See also:line of armed men across the See also:island . Soon afterwards he decided to try the See also:life of a trader among the See also:wild tribes of New Zealand, and, landing in the beautiful inlet of Hokianga in 1833, took up his See also:abode among the Ngapuhi . With them the tall Irish lad—he stood 6 ft . 3 in.—full of daring and See also:good-See also:humour and as fond of fun as of fighting, quickly became a See also:prime favourite, was adopted into the tribe, married a See also:chief's daughter, and became a " Pakeha-See also:Maori " (foreigner turned Maori) . With the profits of his trading he bought a See also:farm of 200 acres on the Hokianga, for which, unlike most See also:white adventurers of the See also:time, he paid full value . When New Zealand was peacefully annexed in 1840, Maning's See also:advice to the Maori was against the arrangement, but from the moment of See also:annexation he became a loyal friend to the See also:government, and in the See also:wars of 1845–46 his See also:influence was exerted with effect in the settlers' favour . Again, in 1860, he persuaded the Ngapuhi to volunteer to put down the insurrection in Taranaki . Finally, at the end of 1865, he entered the public service as a judge of the native lands See also:court, where his unequalled knowledge of the Maori See also:language, customs, traditions and prejudices was of solid value . In this See also:office he served until 1881, when See also:ill-See also:health drove him to resign, and two years later to seek surgical aid in See also:London, where, however, he died of See also:cancer on the 25th of July 1883 . At his wish, his See also:body was taken back to New Zealand and buried there .

A bust of him is placed in the public library atieluckland . Maning is chiefly remembered as the author of two See also:

short books, Old New Zealand and See also:History of the See also:War in the See also:North of New Zealand against the Chief Heke . Both books were reprinted in . London in 1876 and 1884, with an introduction by the See also:earl of See also:Pembroke .

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