Dunedin Real Estate - Larnach Castle, Dunedin, New Zealand
I have just been going through some of the information that my father had collected and he held notes about the Larnach family with paper clippings from newspapers from 1898 and 1934 relating to the Larnach family and Larnach Castle, Otago, New Zealand...
Only a remarkable man could have conceived the audacious idea of building such an edifice as "Larnach Castle" little more than twenty years after the founding of the Otago, New Zealand settlement. William James Mudie Larnach referred to "Larnach Castle", Otago, New Zealand as "The Camp".
William James Mudie Larnach was born at Castle Forbes, Patrick Plains, Hunter's River, New South Wales, Australia on the estate of his grandfather, Major Mudie, who acquired a land grant under the auspices of his cousin, Sir Charles Forbes, in 1821. WJM Larnach was the son of a wealthy land-owner, with numerous sheep and cattle stations, and was a nephew of Sir Donald Larnach, millionaire banker and managing director of the Bank of New South Wales in London. The generally accepted year of his birth has been 1838, but he was the owner of a magnificent gold watch, bearing the following curious inscription:
To William James Mudie Larnach, born at Castle Forbes Patrick Plains, Hunter's River, New South Wales, Jan. 27th, 1833, from his most intimate and valued friend, W.J.M.L., Jan. 27th, 1872. At whose death to pass to his eldest son living, failing any, to his eldest daughter living.
The date engraved on the watch is confirmed in a letter written by Larnach to his son at Pembroke College, Oxford, on 27th January, 1881, in which he states that it was written on his forty-eighth birthday...
Keep watching this blog for more information...
Only a remarkable man could have conceived the audacious idea of building such an edifice as "Larnach Castle" little more than twenty years after the founding of the Otago, New Zealand settlement. William James Mudie Larnach referred to "Larnach Castle", Otago, New Zealand as "The Camp".
William James Mudie Larnach was born at Castle Forbes, Patrick Plains, Hunter's River, New South Wales, Australia on the estate of his grandfather, Major Mudie, who acquired a land grant under the auspices of his cousin, Sir Charles Forbes, in 1821. WJM Larnach was the son of a wealthy land-owner, with numerous sheep and cattle stations, and was a nephew of Sir Donald Larnach, millionaire banker and managing director of the Bank of New South Wales in London. The generally accepted year of his birth has been 1838, but he was the owner of a magnificent gold watch, bearing the following curious inscription:
To William James Mudie Larnach, born at Castle Forbes Patrick Plains, Hunter's River, New South Wales, Jan. 27th, 1833, from his most intimate and valued friend, W.J.M.L., Jan. 27th, 1872. At whose death to pass to his eldest son living, failing any, to his eldest daughter living.
The date engraved on the watch is confirmed in a letter written by Larnach to his son at Pembroke College, Oxford, on 27th January, 1881, in which he states that it was written on his forty-eighth birthday...
Keep watching this blog for more information...
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