Edward Jollie

{{Short description|New Zealand politician and surveyor (1825–1894)}}

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Edward Jollie (1 September 1825 – 7 August 1894) was a pioneer land surveyor in New Zealand, initially as a cadet surveyor with the New Zealand Company. The Christchurch Central City is laid out to his survey.

Biography

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Jollie was born in 1825. The family was from Brampton, Carlisle, England. His father was the Reverend Francis Jollie, and he was the fourth son.{{cite book | title=An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand | orig-year=First ed. published 1966 |publisher=Ministry for Culture and Heritage / Te Manatū Taonga |url= http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/1966/jollie-francis | editor-first=A. H. |editor-last=McLintock | editor-link=Alexander Hare McLintock |access-date= 1 May 2013 | chapter= JOLLIE, Francis | date=22 April 2009}} He followed his elder brother Francis to New Zealand, arriving on the barque Brougham in Wellington in 1842. Later he worked in the Wairau, and in Canterbury, where he laid out the new town of Christchurch in 1850.

Later he was briefly the first Member of Parliament for the Cheviot electorate 1859–1860,{{cite book |last= Wilson |first= James Oakley |title= New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 |edition= 4th |orig-year= First ed. published 1913 |year= 1985 |publisher= V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |oclc=154283103 |page=260 }} being elected in December 1859.{{cite news |title=Local Intelligence |url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NENZC18600121.2.7 |access-date=6 June 2010 |work=Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle |volume=XIX |issue=6 |date=21 January 1860 |page=2}} In his diary, he says about his parliamentary career that "In the Assembly I voted with the Government, but only spoke once in a debate, and then briefly."{{cite web |title=9. Auckland: 1860–1861 |url=http://sites.google.com/site/marapito/jollie_09 |publisher=Canterbury Heritage |access-date=6 June 2010 |archive-date=11 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140311045256/https://sites.google.com/site/marapito/jollie_09 |url-status=dead }}

He farmed in Southbridge, Canterbury. He was active on the Canterbury Provincial Council from 1865 until the abolition of the provinces in 1876. He held several posts including Secretary of Public Works and Provincial Treasurer.

He lived with his wife, Caroline, six daughters and two sons in Europe from 1877 and when they returned to New Zealand in 1884 settled in Patea. His wife encouraged him to write an autobiography for the benefit of their children, and he began writing his reminiscences in 1872.{{cite book |title=Edward Jollie – Reminisces 1841–1865 |date=12 August 1872 |publisher=Alexander Turnbull Library |location=Wellington |url=https://sites.google.com/site/marapito/jollie_01 |access-date=18 November 2014 |chapter=Beginnings |archive-date=24 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141224134634/https://sites.google.com/site/marapito/jollie_01 |url-status=dead }}

Although he had no connection with Otago, Jollie is commemorated in the name of a street in Mosgiel.{{Cite news |date=2021-06-17 |title=Street name has no local significance |url= https://www.odt.co.nz/the-star/street-name-has-no-local-significance |access-date=2021-06-19 |work=Otago Daily Times}} Jollie Street in Linwood is named after him.{{cn|date=July 2022}}

Bibliography

{{cite book |title=Edward Jollie – Reminisces 1841–1865 |year=1880 |publisher=Alexander Turnbull Library |location=Wellington |url= http://radiondemand.blogspot.co.nz/ |access-date=18 November 2014 |chapter=Index}}