Ashley Hunter (cartoonist)

Taken circa 1923 from the Past Presidents Album of the Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand (IPENZ). Colourised by his Great Great Grandson: Ashley Catton.

Ashley John Barsley Hunter (1854-1932) was a New Zealand engineer, artist, photographer and cartoonist.^[1] Although principally employed as an engineer, his cartoons appeared in the New Zealand Graphic, Ladies Journal and Youth Companion (1890-1913) in the 1890s and 1900s.^[2]

Biography[]

Hunter was born in England and moved to New Zealand in 1871 with some of his family.^[3] He married Eliza Jane Halyday in 1878 and died in Auckland in 1932.^[4]

After initially working as a photographer on arrival in New Zealand, he was appointed as an engineering cadet in the Public Works Department in Wellington in 1872.^[1]^[5] He continued to work for the Public Works Department until 1882 when he went into private practice in partnership with James Stewart.^[5] He was an engineer for the Westport Coal Company (from 1894 to 1897), the Paparoa Coal Company (1906-1910), the Waipa Coal Company and the Westport Stockton Coal Company (1910-1913). In 1918, he was responsible for laying out the Glen Afton Coal Mine and the Huntly Branch Railway.^[5]

He was a member of the UK Institution of Civil Engineers and President of the New Zealand Society of Civil Engineers from 1922 to 1923.^[5]

External links[]

View material relating to Ashley Hunter on DigitalNZ

References[]

^ ^a ^b "ATL: Unpublished Collections". tiaki.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
^ Grant, Ian Fraser. (1987). The unauthorized version : a cartoon history of New Zealand (2nd ed. rev. & updated ed.). Auckland, N.Z.: D. Bateman. ISBN 0908610726. OCLC 23141125.
^ Hunter, Ashley J. (2005). The letters of Ashley J Hunter 1871-1878. Christchurch: M Rolleston.
^ "Obituary: Mr Ashley Hunter". New Zealand Herald: 14. 28 May 1932.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Ashley John Hunter (1854–1932) | Engineering New Zealand". www.engineeringnz.org. Retrieved 27 May 2019.

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[:0-1] "ATL: Unpublished Collections". tiaki.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 27 May 2019.

[2] Grant, Ian Fraser. (1987). The unauthorized version : a cartoon history of New Zealand (2nd ed. rev. & updated ed.). Auckland, N.Z.: D. Bateman. ISBN 0908610726. OCLC 23141125.

[3] Hunter, Ashley J. (2005). The letters of Ashley J Hunter 1871-1878. Christchurch: M Rolleston.

[:1-4] "Obituary: Mr Ashley Hunter". New Zealand Herald: 14. 28 May 1932.

[:2-5] "Ashley John Hunter (1854–1932) | Engineering New Zealand". www.engineeringnz.org. Retrieved 27 May 2019.

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