Leonard Stowe

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(1837-1920) was a New Zealand politician and inventor. He was Clerk of the Legislative Council and Clerk of Parliament. Stowe was born in 1837 in

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, the son of William Stowe (1791-1860). The scholar and journalist

William Henry Stowe William Henry Stowe (1 January 182522 June 1855), scholar and journalist, eldest son of William and Mary Stowe, was born at Buckingham on 1 January 1825. After attending a school at Iffley, near Oxford, he spent six months at King Edward's School, ...

was his brother. On 31 May 1871, he married Jane Greenwood at

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. Stowe died in 1920. He was buried in the Bolton Street Cemetery. His daughter Emily Muriel Lysaght was the mother of Averil Lysaght and

Muriel Mary Lysaght Muriel Mary Watt (née Lysaght; 27 March 1917 – 2 July 2005) was a New Zealand landscape architect and gardener. Biography Watt was born Muriel Mary Lysaght on 27 March 1917, the daughter of Emily Muriel Lysaght (née Stowe) and Brian Cuthb ...

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1837 births 1920 deaths British emigrants to New Zealand Burials at Bolton Street Cemetery Greenwood family of New Zealand Officers of the Parliament of New Zealand {{NewZealand-politician-stub