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Tancred, Clement William, fourth son of Sir Thomas Tancred, 7th Bart., by Jane, third daughter of Prideaux John Selby, of Twizell House, co. Northumberland, and nephew of Mr. (q.v.), was born on Sept. 16th, 1852, and married on July 16th, 1878, Alice Maud, third daughter of Oswald Bloxsome, of The Rangers, Sydney, N.S.W. He died on Oct. 4th, 1888.

Tancred, Hon. Henry John, second son of Sir Thomas Tancred, Bart., of Boroughbridge, co. York, by Harriet Lucy, daughter of the Rev. Offley Crewe, was born in 1825, and educated at Rugby. At an early age he entered the Austrian army, and served in Hungary and Italy. In 1851 he went to Canterbury, N.Z., and in 1853 was returned to the first Provincial Council, being appointed a member of the Legislative Council of New Zealand in the following year. Mr. Tancred was in the - Ministry as a member of the Executive Council from April 18th to May 20th, 1856; and in the Ministry as a member of the Executive Council (August 5th, 1858, to July 12th, 1861), Secretary for Crown Lands (August 19th, 1858, to July 12th, 1861), and Postmaster-General (Nov. 3rd, 1858, to July 12th, 1861). Mr. Tancred was also in the Ministry as a member of the Executive Council from August 6th, 1862, to Feb. 6th, 1863. He continued to sit in Parliament till 1870. In 1866 he was elected Speaker of the Provincial Council of Canterbury, which office he held till the abolition of the provinces in 1875. He was also much interested in educational matters, having been a member of the first Commission  in 1863, a member of the Board of Education, a governor of Christ College, and a fellow of Canterbury College, Christchurch, and Chancellor of the New Zealand University from 1871 to 1884. He  died on April 27th, 1884. Mr. Tancred  married, on July 3rd, 1857, Georgiana,  daughter of Lieut.-Colonel, C.P., of Nelson, N.Z. (q.v.).

Tawhiao, the second Maori king, son of (Te Whero Whero), the first New Zealand king (q.v.), was originally ailed Matutaera. and was chosen to succeed his father in June 1860. In Feb. 1875, after years of hostility and estrangement, Tawhiao had an interview with Sir Donald M'Lean, Minister of Native Affairs, who informed him that the abandonment of the confiscated Waikato territory which he had demanded was quite out of the question. Tawhiao suggested that the Governor should meet him at Te Kuiti. Sir 's propositions were — (1) That Tawhiao should exercise his authority over tribes within his district; (2) that he should choose his Council of Chiefs to keep order and repress wrong; (3) that the New Zealand Government should assist him; (4) that the Government should build a house for him at Kawhia and grant to him certain lands on the Waipa and Waikato rivers. After a considerable amount of negotiation the conference broke up without any definite agreement being arrived at. The Governor did not go to Te Kuiti; and though several chiefs assembled, Tawhiao held aloof, as his invitation was not responded to. In May 1878 he had a meeting with Sir, who had become Premier of New Zealand, at Hikurangi. Sir George told him the Government would give him five hundred acres of land near the grave of his father, would restore other lands to his people, would erect a house for him at Kawhia, and consult him as to surveys and roads. Tawhiao neither accepted nor rejected these proposals. On May 6th, 1879, Tawhiao, in company with numerous chiefs, had another interview with Sir George Grey at Kopua, where he utterly repudiated all compromise with Europeans. "All foreign innovations," he concluded, "must be swept away. Then there will be no evils." The discussion lasted several days, some of the chiefs rejecting the Maori king's claims and expressing their preference for the Queen and the Treaty of Waitangi. The conference ended fruitlessly, and Sir George Grey wrote to Tawhiao before leaving that he was not doing so in anger, but in sorrow, "because you have not been wise enough to accept the benefits offered to you, and because the hope which I have cherished for years, that I might be the means of placing yourself 456