Joseph Brittan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Joseph Brittan

New Zealand newspaper editor

Date of Birth: 12-Jan-1805

Place of Birth: Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 27-Oct-1867

Profession: farmer

Nationality: New Zealand

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Joseph Brittan

  • Joseph Brittan (12 January 1806 – 27 October 1867), a surgeon, newspaper editor, and provincial councillor, was one of the dominant figures in early Christchurch, New Zealand.
  • Born into a middle-class family in southern England, he followed his younger brother Guise Brittan to Christchurch, where he and his wife arrived in February 1852 with four children.
  • Joseph Brittan soon got involved in the usual activities of early settlers and gained prominence in doing so.
  • He had bought 100 acres on 10 July 1851 and took up 50 of this to the east of Christchurch that he converted to farmland.
  • There, he built the family residence, and the suburb of Linwood was subsequently named after Brittan's farm and homestead of Linwood House. The members of the Brittan family were devout Anglicans (although the Brittain family had been Methodists ) and had a close association with the neighbouring Holy Trinity Avonside, where Guise Brittan was a lay reader.
  • William Rolleston became Joseph Brittan's son-in-law in 1865, when he married his only surviving daughter Mary; Rolleston was elected Canterbury's third Superintendent just months after Brittan's death. Brittan was a member of the Canterbury Provincial Council for just over three years.
  • He served as Provincial Secretary from 1855 to 1857 and was expected to succeed James FitzGerald as the second Superintendent of the Canterbury Province, but was beaten by William Sefton Moorhouse in October 1857.
  • He established the third newspaper in Canterbury, the Canterbury Standard, which existed for 12 years until shortly before Brittan's death.
  • Brittan was a very eloquent speaker, but he had a biting and sarcastic character, and was disliked, and even feared, by some.
  • Later in life, he suffered from gout and frequent headaches, and this together with financial trouble, often made him irritable and impatient.
  • He died at his homestead in October 1867 after a long period of declining health.

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