Background
Frederick Maning was born on July 5, 1812, in Johnville, Dublin County.
The Maning family immigrated to Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania) in 1824.
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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1906 edition by Whitcombe and Tombs Limited, Christchurch, Wellington, Dunedin, Melbourne, London.
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In Old New Zealand (1863), F.E. Maning recalls living alongside Maori in "the good old times before Governors were invented, and law, and justice, and all that." His account of the early contact period is widely acknowledged to be a masterpiece of some sort, but the extent to which it is fiction, autobiography, ethnography, history, or satire remains a matter for debate. This is the first scholarly edition of Maning's writings. It includes a revealing selection of Maning's unpublished letters, and Alex Calder contributes an introduction and notes that illuminate the works' historical, ethnographic, and literary contexts, showing how settler colonialism is an incomplete and contested process, the problems of which are enacted in Maning's writings, and repeated in the history of their reception.
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Frederick Maning was born on July 5, 1812, in Johnville, Dublin County.
The Maning family immigrated to Van Diemen’s Land (now Tasmania) in 1824.
Young Maning served in the fatuous expedition which attempted to drive in the Tasmanian blacks by sweeping with an unbroken line of armed men across the island. Soon afterwards he decided to try the life of a trader among the wild tribes of New Zealand, and, landing in the beautiful inlet of Hokianga in 1833, took up his abode among the Ngapuhi. Quickly he became a prime favourite, was adopted into the tribe and became a "Pakeha-Maori" (foreigner turned Maori). With the profits of his trading he bought a farm of 200 acres on the Hokianga, for which, unlike most white adventurers of the time, he paid full value. When New Zealand was peacefully annexed in 1840, Maning's advice to the Maori was against the arrangement, but from the moment of annexation he became a loyal friend to the government, and in the wars of 1845-1846 his influence was exerted with effect in the settlers' favour. Again, in 1860, he persuaded the Ngapuhi to volunteer to put down the insurrection in Taranaki. Finally, at the end of 1865, he entered the public service as a judge of the native lands court, where his unequalled knowledge of the Maori language, customs, traditions and prejudices was of solid value.
In 1876, he retired although he helped conduct a major land court hearing at Taupo in 1881.
In November 1882, he went to London for an operation; however, he died there on July 25, 1883, of cancer. At his wish, his body was taken back to New Zealand and buried in December, 1883, in the Symonds Street Cemetery in Auckland.
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(In Old New Zealand (1863), F.E. Maning recalls living alo...)
Frederick Edward Maning married a Māori woman, Moengoroa, they had four children.