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Eliza Jane Cowie (6 October 1835–18 August 1902; née Webber) was a New Zealand church and community worker. Eliza Jane Webber was born in
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on 6 October 1835, the daughter of William Webber, a surgeon of Moulton, Suffolk, by his wife Eliza Preston daughter of Sir Thomas Preston, Bart., of Beeston Hill, Norfolk. Her brother William Webber (1837–1903) became Bishop of Brisbane. She married in 1869
William Garden Cowie William Garden Cowie (8 January 1831 – 26 June 1902) was bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Auckland, New Zealand, from 1870 to 1902. Although he succeeded George Selwyn in having jurisdiction in this portion of New Zealand, he was the first bi ...
(January 8, 1831 – June 26, 1902), who was the same year appointed bishop of the
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, and later became Primate of New Zealand. Cowie died at her home Bishopscourt,
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on 18 August 1902, a mere two months after the death of her husband, leaving three sons and a daughter.


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1835 births 1902 deaths New Zealand social workers English emigrants to New Zealand New Zealand expatriates in England {{NewZealand-bio-stub