Edwin Hodder

HODDER, Edwin. b. Staines, Middlesex, 13 December 1837; d. Chichester, 1 March 1904. He went to New Zealand as a young man as part of an experiment in pioneer society (1856-61). On his return to England he became a Civil Servant, retiring in 1897; in his final years he lived at Henfield, Sussex. Hodder’s years in New Zealand led to the production of Memories of New Zealand Life (1862), the first of a great many publications. He was a prolific author on numerous topics, particularly travel and geography (All the World Over, 1875-76), history (The History of South Australia, 1893), biography (The Life and Work of the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, KG, 1886), and religion (The Way and the Life,...