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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: Cornish immigrants to New Zealand, English immigrants to New Zealand, Scottish immigrants to New Zealand, Benjamin Mountfort, Edward Cephas John Stevens, Richard Hutton Davies, Theodore Haultain, Roger P. Hill, Bob Fitzsimmons, William Gilbert Puckey, William Sefton Moorhouse, Rob Guest, John Hyde Harris, Peter King, Tim Barnett, Euan Dickson, Ken Armstrong, Horace Robert Martineau, Henry Wigram, Duncan Sommerville, Charles Chilton, Steve Sumner, William Barnard Rhodes, George Marsden Waterhouse, Robert Bruce, Harold Rushworth, John Luke, Muriel Newman, William Colenso, Erik Thomson, Hubert Turtill, Charles Heaphy, Jock Aird, Steve Reeves, Samuel Frickleton, Paul Rutherford, Samuel Duncan Parnell, Bobby Almond, Gordon Minhinnick, Allan Boath, Charles Pye, Frederick Stanley Jackson, Edward McKenna, Dave Bright, John Gibb, George Vernon Hudson, Samuel Mitchell, Frederick Vincent Ellis, Leonard Cockayne, James Fletcher, William Herries, Sam Totman, George Dare Dowell, Vincent Aspey, Edward Craig Stuart, George Hunter, Richard John Sutton, Sir Jack Harris, 2nd Baronet, William Hart-Smith, John Campbell, William John Simkin, Robert Clark-Hall, Edward Earle Vaile, William George Garrard, Harold Brainsby, Catherine Stewart, Constance Clyde, Charles Luke. Excerpt: Benjamin Woolfield Mountfort (13 March 1825 - 15 March 1898) was an English emigrant to New Zealand, where he became one of that country's most prominent 19th century architects. He was instrumental in shaping the city of Christchurch's unique architectural identity and culture, and was appointed the first official Provincial Architect of the developing province of Canterbury. Heavily influenced by the Anglo-Catholic philosophy behind early Victorian architecture, he is credited with importing the Gothic revival style to New Zealand. His Gothic designs constructed...
