CHRISTCHURCH RESIDENT IS HEIR TO SCOTTISH BARONETCY

Evening Star, Issue 26178, 13 August 1947, Page 3

CHRISTCHURCH RESIDENT IS HEIR TO SCOTTISH BARONETCY

(P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, Au«. 12. On the death, of Sir Henry James Purvis-Russell-Hamilton-Montgomery, of Stanhope, seventh baronet, at Hattonburn, Kinross-shire, Scotland, the baronetcy has passed to his eldest son, Basil Russell Purvis-Russell-Montgom-ery, of 77 Totara road, Christchurch. This branch of the Montgomery family has been connected with New Zealand since the early days of colonisation. Sir Basil Purvis-Russell-Montgomery’s mother is the only child of the late Sir Thomas Purvis-Ityssell, who came to New Zealand in 1842 and took up the Woburn Estate, since called Hatuma, in Hawke’s Bay. Later he bought the Warroek Estate, only a few miles from the Montgomery home at Hatton burn. Sir Basil Purvis-Russell-Montgomery was born at liattonburn in 1884, and was educated at Uppingham and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He visited New Zealand while on a voyage round the world, and came to live here in 1907. I-Ie bought a farm in the Mayfield district, and later “ Lawford,” a wellknown property near Christchurch. He served with the New Zealand forces in the First World War.