George Rhodes (14 July 1816 – 18 June 1864) was a New Zealand pastoralist. He was born in Epworth,

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, England in 1816. William Barnard Rhodes, his eldest brother, was the first from his family to settle in New Zealand in 1840. George Rhodes' third son

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went on to be a

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and

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1816 births 1864 deaths New Zealand farmers People from Epworth, Lincolnshire English emigrants to New Zealand Moorhouse–Rhodes family {{NewZealand-bio-stub