Charles Tripp (runholder)
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Charles George Tripp was a pioneering sheep farmer in South Canterbury, New Zealand. Together with his friend and business partner John Acland, he was the first to use the Canterbury high country for
Tripp in 1878
The Orari Gorge homestead in ca 1906
John Acland (runholder)
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John Barton Arundel Acland, often referred to as J. B. A. Acland, was born in Devon, England, as the youngest child of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 10th Baronet. He followed his father's path of education
Charles Tripp (runholder)
…George Tripp (1 July 1826 – 6 July 1897) was a pioneering sheep farmer in South Canterbury, New Zealand. Together with his friend and business partner John Acland, he was the first to use the Canterbury high country for sheep farming. Tripp was born in Kentisbeare, Mid Devon, England in 1826. His parents were the…
Acland in 1893
Holnicote, the homestead at Mount Peel (1880s watercolour)
Standing from left: Lucy, Harriet and Emily; sitting: Bessie, JBA and Rosa (1890)
John and Emily Acland with (from left) Rosa, John and Bessie