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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Mr. Thomas Corbet De Lacy

Mr. Thomas Corbet De Lacy . J.P., first Mayor of the borough of West Harbour, and one of the earliest settlers in the district, was born in June, 1823, in Monmouthshire, England. He was educated for the medical profession at Bristol and at Bath, but in 1842 left England, and spent the following nine years on the continent, residing for some years at Moscow. In 1852, a few months after returning to England, he sailed in the ship “Royal Albert” for Otago. Mr. de Lacy lived in the Taieri with the late Mr. Robert Hastie for a short time, and in 1854 he took up property and resided at West Harbour, and named it Ravensbourne; thus supplying the present name of the chief township in the district. Mr. de Lacy was subsequently
Wrigglesworth and Binns, photo.Mr. T. C. De Lacy.

Wrigglesworth and Binns, photo.
Mr. T. C. De Lacy.

a Government official. He was in H.M. Customs from 1860 to 1871. in the Chief Gold Receiver's Department from 1861 to 1867, and on the Licensing Committee for Port Chalmers in 1880. He was Mayor of West Harbour from 1877 to 1878, and became a Justice of the Peace for the colony in 1877. From 1867 to 1872 he was a member of the West Harbour Road Board and its clerk, and was chairman in 1872. He was chairman of the Licensing Bench for many years. Since his resignation he has lived in retirement on his property at Ravensbourne. During his residence in the district he has done much to promote the interests of his borough, especially in obtaining from the Provincial Government a connection with Dunedin by means of an embankment across Pelichet Bay.