Details of movements since August are : Depart Timaru, 4th August, for Sydney and Newcastle, N.S.W., where mixed cargo was loaded from 9th August to 6th October. Depart Sydney, 6th October, for Lyttleton, arriving six days later. Discharge at Lyttleton (12th27th October), Timaru (28th October-2nd November), Dunedin (3rd22nd November) and Bluff (23rd November-13 December).
MARMADUKE RAWDON (1610-1689) A letter received from Mr. C. Tuke Taylor, M.A., on the subject of 'Marmaduke Rawdon's 'MSS. records prompts some observations on this notable 17th century Peterite. Our correspondent, who writes from the Grange, Hoddesdon, Herts., where Rawdon spent the last years of his life, possesses some of his MSS books as well as the "Life", printed for the Camden Society in the 19th Century. We regret that we cannot answer his query as to the whereabouts of the History of the Rawdon Family. Many of the Rawdon papers have not been heard of since the middle of the 18th century. Marmaduke Rawdon, who takes "a respectable place in the scanty lists of early British tourists who have left any record of their travels" (Dictionary of National Biography), will probably be quite unknown to most modern Peterites, and the following brief sketch of his career may be of interest. Belonging to a younger branch of the ancient Yorkshire family of Rawdon, seated at Rawdon in the parish of Guiseley, he was born in York in 1610 (N.S.). His father was Laurence Rawdon, a merchant and alderman of the City, and Marmaduke, his youngest son, was baptised in the church of St. Crux. Laurence died in 1624, and Marmaduke was adopted by his uncle, Sir Marmaduke Rawdon, who had risen to eminence and affluence as a London Merchant. It was in the interests of his adoptive father's business that Marmaduke spent much of his subsequent life abroad. In 1627 we hear of him as a supercargo on a vessel trading with Holland, and then for two years he was resident in Bordeaux. For 25 years, from 1631 to 1656, he lived in Teneriffe, directing his uncle's affairs in the Canary Islands. During a stay at La Laguna in Grand Canary he made the ascent of the peak of Teneriffe. He was certainly the first Englishman to reach the summit of this famous volcano, and it is interesting to find that in making the ascent he followed the same route as that taken by George Glas a century later and by Humbolt and other more modern travellers. In 1656 the rupture with Spain caused his return to England and thenceforward he seems to have lived with a kinsman at the Grange, Hoddesdon, Herts. He never married and died on 7th February, 1688-9, being buried in the chancel of the church at Broxbourne. 36
