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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Haywood, Charles

Haywood, Charles , Farmer, Hill Farm. Thornbury. Mr Haywood was born in 1856, in Devonshire, England, where he was educated and brought up to farming. He came to the Bluff by the ship “Western Monarch,” in 1879, and was employed for seven years by Mr M. Fallow, at Riverton. He was afterwards in partnership with his brother. Mr. W. Haywood, and Mr F. J. Linscott, in an estate at Thorn-bury, which he actively farmed till 1891. when the partnership was dissolved. Mr Haywood then took over Hill Farm, which comprises 290 acres of freehold, and a Government reserve of forty acres; he afterwards bought another farm of 170 acres. Mr Haywood carries on mixed farming. He is a member of the Western District Agricultural and Pastornl Association, and was its vice-president in 1904. Mr Haywood was married, in December, 1891, to a daughter of Mr Robert Hitchcock, of Waimatuku, and has three sons and four daughters.