OBITUARY

Southland Times, Issue 23444, 26 February 1938, Page 7

OBITUARY

MR M. J. KNUBLEY The death occurred recently of Mr M. J. Knubley, an old and highly-re-spected citizen of Timaru. He was the second son of Mr and Mrs M. P. Knubley, and was born at Plumbland, Cumberland, on November 15, 1851. He was educated at Marlborough College, and was admitted as a solicitor in England in 1875. In 1876 he married the eldest daughter of Mr E. M. Clissold, at Wrentham, England.. Mr Clissold had been out to New Zealand and he recommended Mr Knubley to try his lot in the then colony. Mr and Mrs Knubley left England in the P. and O. steamer Peshwar, which took them as far as Melbourne. There they boarded the Arawa and came to New Zealand via Bluff, finally landing at Lyttelton on December 16, 1876. Mr Knubley settled in Timaru in 1877 and purchased a partnership with Mr A. G. Hammersley. This was later dissolved, and in 1878 Mr Knubley purchased Mr A. Ormsby’s practice, carrying on on his own account for about two years. In 1883 he went into partnership with Mr L. G. Reid, who subsequently was appointed assistant Crown Law Officer, and the partnership was dissolved. Mr Knubley then carried on on his own, and up ta a little more than a year ago visited his office daily. One of Mr Knubley’s sons, Mr Frank Knubley, served in the South African War, and his four sons, Messrs Frank, Alfred, Hugh, and Henry Knubley, all served in the Great War. Alfred was killed in action, and Frank died after his return to New Zealand. The two youngest sons are at present farming in the Albury district. Mr Knubley has three daughters—Mrs William C. Raymond, Mrs Paul Brodrick. and Miss Knubley.