William Lingard, 1846-1922, born in Cooga, Ruan, County Clare
| Title: | William Lingard, 1846-1922, born in Cooga, Ruan, County Clare |
| Type of Material: | Family History |
| Places: | Ruan, County Clare; New Zealand |
| Dates: | 1846 - 1922 |
| Family Names: | Lingard; Kenny |
| Transcriber/Donator: | Margaret Gallery |
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William Lingard was one of a large family
born to Captain Thomas Lingard (Waterloo veteran, originally from the
North of England) and Maria Kenny. He was born at Cooga House, Ruan,
Co Clare. As was the custom of the times in a mixed religion marriage
the sons were brought up Church of Ireland and the daughters Catholic.
William’s brother, John Thomas Lingard remained in Ruan and farmed
at Cooga and was a local magistrate. Three of his sisters entered the
Mercy Convent in Ennis, two went on missions abroad, Sr Mary Gertrude
(Ellen Lingard), remained in St Xaviers in Ennis (O'Brien).
William was brought up in Clare and sent to Military school but had
to leave after an accident (Evening Post, 1922). He then studied in
Edinburgh under his cousin Professor Blackie (Wikipedia). He emigrated
to New Zealand in 1865 where he farmed in the Wanganui area and joined
the Auckland Militia (Cowan, 1956). He served in the Waikoto war and
later became a trooper in the Alexandra Lancers and then in the Kai-Iwi
Cavalry with whom he fought in the Maori wars. In 1869 he won the New
Zealand Cross for great gallantry (An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand 1966).
He was a good horseman and went on many scouting expeditions. At Tauranga–a–Hika
Pa he rescued a colleague Trooper Wright whose horse had been shot down
and trapped him underneath the horse. Lingard went back to the ‘pa’
and stole a horse from the Maori for his colleague and saw him to safety
(Bezar, 1898).
He ran a brewery in Wanganui which failed in 1878 and he became insolvent.
His business partner up to 1878 was Thomas Thatcher (New Zealand Herald,
Wanganui Chronicle, 2012), grandfather of Sir Denis Thatcher (Wikipedia),
husband to Margaret Thatcher.
Some time after 1878 he moved to Wellington where he was district manager
for National Mutual Life Insurance Company. In 1902 he made a long visit
to Ireland and England. The New Zealand Evening Post announced he was
visiting his cousin General Sir Thomas Kelly Kenny in London and staying
in Dublin with his cousin Judge Kenny (Judge William Kenny of Marlfield
Cabinteely) (New Zealand Evening Post, 1902).
On his return to Wellington he set up his own business as a land agent.
A cartoon of him (above) from the New Zealand Truth, 1919 is kindly
reproduced by permission of Papers Past New Zealand.
William died in 1922 in Wellington leaving a wife and two daughters.
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