Dates

• Existence: 1812 - 1879

Biography

The eccentric Dr. Augustus Florance lived in Caledonian Road, Christchurch, where the Caledonian Hotel now stands. His son, also Augustus, was a compositor for the Lyttelton Times. He bought land in New Brighton, building a house there. He married Elizabeth Hamilton, the daughter of David Wilson Hamilton, an early settler who also had associations with New Brighton. Augustus and Elizabeth had a son Augustus III who is known as the founder of the St. Albans Library, and who went to live in Bower Avenue, New Brighton, in 1913. He had a son, the fourth and final Augustus Florance, a farmer.