Elizabeth Henrietta Torlesse (1835 – 22 September 1922) was a notable New Zealand homemaker and community leader. She was born in

County Wicklow County Wicklow ( ; ga, Contae Chill Mhantáin ) is a county in Ireland. The last of the traditional 32 counties, having been formed as late as 1606, it is part of the Eastern and Midland Region and the province of Leinster. It is bordered by t ...

, Ireland in about 1835 as Elizabeth Henrietta Revell. The Revell family came to New Zealand on the ''Minerva'' in 1853. She married Henry Torlesse, who was also a passenger on the ''Minerva''. Henry Torlesse farmed with his brother

Charles Torlesse Charles Obins Torlesse (2 May 1825 – 14 November 1866) was a prominent surveyor for the Canterbury Association in Canterbury, New Zealand. Biography Torlesse was born in Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk, England, in 1825. He was the eldest son of ...

, who had first come to New Zealand in the early 1840s.

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