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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

Mr. Samuel Crisp Gace Vickers

Mr. Samuel Crisp Gace Vickers, Town Clerk, Returning Officer, and Valuator for the Borough of Onslow, is the eldest son of the late Mr. Samuel Vickers, sharebroker, of Auckland, who died at the advanced age of ninety-six years, early in 1896. Born at Camberwell, London, in 1835, the subject of this sketch came to Auckland with his parents in 1851. Mr. Vickers entered the Government service in the Native Office of Auckland in 1863. Two years later, on the transfer of the seat of Government, he was removed to Wellington, In 1872 Mr. Vickers was re-transferred to Auckland, where he became chief clerk in the Civil Commissioners' office, which position he held till 1882. In this year he was again removed to Wellington in the Native Office, but four years later he was retrenched. In 1894 he was appointed to his present office. Mr. Vickers was married in 1859, to a daughter of the late Mr. Joseph Crisp, of Manakau, settler, and has three sons and two daughters, of whom a son and daughter are married.