Author talk:Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett

Death

 * Principal Probate Registry. Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England. (1927, p.688)

POSNETT Hutcheson Macualay of 3 Eglinton Park Kingstown county Dublin died 5 September 1927 Administration London 5 November to Mary Pelly widow. Effects £682 5s. 4d. in England.

name:	 Hutcheson M Posnett registration district:	 Rathdown event type:	 DEATHS registration quarter and year:	 Jul - Sep 1927 estimated birth year:	 1855 age (at death):	 72 mother's maiden name: film number:	 101737 volume number:	 2 page number:	 458 digital folder number:	 4202044 image number:	 00099
 * "Ireland, Civil Registration Indexes, 1845-1958," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FTJN-4MR : accessed 11 Nov 2012), Hutcheson M Posnett, 1855; citing vol. 2, p. 458, General Registry, Custom House, Dublin, Ireland; FHL microfilm 101737.

Shipping record

 * "New Zealand, Immigration Passenger Lists, 1855-1973," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FSBV-3J6 : accessed 11 Nov 2012), H M Posnett, 1886.

name:	 H M Posnett event:	 Immigration arrival date:	 1886 event place:	 New Zealand gender:	 Male age: marital status: origin: occupation: estimated birth year: shipping company: ship:	 multiple ships ship's departure port: departure port: departure date: ship's arrival port:	 Auckland (inwards) arrival port:	 Auckland (inwards) digital folder number:	 004413360 image number:	 00042

Allibone's Supplment vol. 2, p.1246
Posnett, Hutcheson Macaulay, M.A., LL.D., F.L.S., barrister-at-law, professor of classics and Eng- lish literature in University College, Auckland, New Zealand. 1. Historical Method in Ethics, Lon., 1882, 8vo. 2. The Ricardian Theory of Rent, Lon., 1884, cr. 8vo. 3. Comparative Literature, Lon., 1886, p. 8vo.

" We find very little interest in Mr. Posnett's 'compara- tive Literature.' The arrangement seems by no means well ordered. Heaps of information (not always correct) are 'shot' (like rubbish) all over the place. . . . How re- mote all this is from the study of literature!" Sat. Rev., lxi. 481.