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William Francis Gordon
William Francis Robert Gordon (18??-1936) was an artist, amateur historian and surveyor who took a special interest in documenting the New Zealand Warsand memorialising many of the participants.

Early Life and Career
Gordon arrived in New Zealandin the 1860s and is thought to have worked as a cartoonist during the general elections of 1871. He later worked as a telegraph operator and moved to Whanganuiwhere his sketching skills earned him popular acclaim. His accomplished trompe l'oeil drawing also won him plaudits and were shown at exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney and Dunedin.

(1.)http://www.pukeariki.com/Heritage/SpotlightontheHeritageCollection/id/905/title/william-francis-gordon-album.aspx

(2.)http://vernon.npdc.govt.nz/search.do?id=286662&db=object&page=1&view=detail

(3.)http://www.victoria.ac.nz/sacr/staff/roger-blackley.aspxSee R Blackley, Stray Leaves: Colonial Trompe L’Oeil Drawings, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2001, pp. 21–9.

(4.)http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=WH18750818.1.2&e=---10--10--Wanganui Herald, 18 August 1875, p. 2.

(5.) Otago Witness, 18 April 1906, p. 79.

(6.)‘Marsland Hill NZ Wars memorial’, on New Zealand History online, updated 25 March 2011: www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/marsland-hill-nz-wars-memorial (7.) http://www.nzmuseums.co.nz/account/3196/object/1347/Drawing;_Stray_Leaves

Taranaki Herald, 12 July 1898, p. 2; Taranaki Herald, 7 April 1902, p. 3; Hawera & Normanby Star, 11 March 1918, p. 4 are just three examples of Gordon’s efforts to publicise veterans’ service records. Gordon’s illuminated address for Bryce is in the Puke Ariki collection: see Bryce, John, ARC2006-079.

Taranaki Herald, 27 April 1909, p. 4. For further analysis of the Gordon album see R Harvey, ‘Eyes on History’, in K Day (ed.), Contested Ground: Te Whenua I Tohea – The Taranaki Wars 1860–1881, Wellington: Huia, 2010, pp. 156–7.