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In a Strange Garden: The Life and Times of Truby King
Chapter One: A young man in the colonies
Chapter One: A young man in the colonies
Note: Several biographers refer to Thomas King as having been a member of the British Parliament before emigrating to New Zealand. This is impossible as the minimum age for representation is twenty-one, and Thomas was twenty when he arrived in New Zealand. This was pointed out to me in correspondence with the House of Commons.
1. J. B. Priestley, Victoria's Heyday (London: Penguin, 1972).
2. Mary King, Truby King — The Man (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1948), p. 12.
3. Margot Fry, Tom's Letters: The Private World of Thomas King, Victorian Gentleman (Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2001), p. 52.
4. Ibid., p. 53.
5. Ibid., p. 196.
6. King, Truby King — The Man, p. 20.
7. Ibid., p. 22.
8. Ibid., p. 22.
9. Ibid., p. 23.
10. Obituary, Taranaki Herald, 29 April 1893.