Walter Lawry Buller
1838–1906
New Zealand interpreter, lawyer, and ornithologist. Native interpreter in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, 1855. Resident magistrate in Manawatu, 1862; transferred to Wanganui, 1865. Published Essay on the ornithology of New Zealand (1865). Went to London, 1871–4, to publish the History of the birds of New Zealand (1873). Practised as a barrister in New Zealand, 1874–86. Returned to London as commissioner for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition in 1886. Knighted, 1886. FRS 1879.
Sources
DNZB
ODNB.
Bibliography
DNZB: A dictionary of New Zealand biography. Edited by G. H. Scholefield. 2 vols. Wellington, New Zealand: Department of Internal Affairs. 1940. The dictionary of New Zealand biography. Edited by W. H. Oliver et al. 5 vols. Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand: Department of Internal Affairs [and others]. 1990–2000.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
