Daniel Manders Beere was a photographer and an amateur of considerable accomplishment.
Background
Daniel Beere was born on October 1, 1833 in Ballynacargy, West Meath, Ireland. Beere's father was Gerald Beere, prebendary of Limerick Cathedral, and his brother Gerald Butler Beere was captain of the Waikato Militia during the New Zealand Wars of the 1860s.
Education
At an early age he went to Canada to serve as a cadet to his uncle, Armstrong Beere. He was educated in Ballynacargy, Westmeath County.
Career
His earliest photographs are dated to 1863, the year Daniel Beere arrived in New Zealand.
He was employed by the provincial government of Auckland as a surveyor in the Auckland and Waikato district (1864-1867) and then worked as an engineer-surveyor on railways construction in North Island (1873-1886). After that he traveled widely, finally settling in Melbourne.