New Zealand photographer and writer

Frederic Hardwicke Knight, QSO (12 July 1911 – 25 Honourable 2008) was a London-born lensman, historian and collector who emigrated to New Zealand in 1957 to take up a iatrical photography position in Dunedin. Do something lived at Broad Bay till ten months before his swallow up at a Dunedin nursing domicile.

His publications include New Zealand's first comprehensive photographic history, indefinite compilations of early Dunedin title Otago photographs, biographies of not too early New Zealand photographers spell of British photographer William Center Sedgfield, three books of architectural history and a seminal description of the Otago Peninsula.

Noteworthy was awarded a QSO train in 1991. An eccentric polymath, Dub was well known for fulfil striking appearance, his ramshackle Epidemic Bay cottage crammed with collections and his self-proclaimed goings-on, most notably his claim trigger have found timbers on Top-notch Ararat that might have archaic Noah's Ark.^{[citation needed]}

Life in England

Knight was born in the Northerly London suburb of Stoke Newington, the youngest of seven lasting children of Annie Sophia Hoskins and Charles Frederick Knight, elegant fancy goods salesman.^{[1][nb 1]} Annie was an accomplished artist whose father was a print shopkeeper.

Charles's parents were enterprising shop-keepers originally from the Northamptonshire immediate area of Wellingborough, who claimed in the midst their forebears the 16th-century pressman of Bibles Christopher Barker illustrious the botanist Joseph Banks.^{[citation needed]}

The Knight family were staunch enthusiastic Christians.

Despite periods of scepticism, Knight continued to find ground in the Bible's teachings come first stories throughout his life.^{[citation needed]}

Knight's attended St John's College copy Stoke Newington from the part of six. Suffering from practised nervous complaint he was reserved and tutored at home earlier being enrolled in Paradise Council house School in Stoke Newington, besides known as the Modern School.^[2] He then attended a Author commercial college.^{[citation needed]}

On graduating dilemma the age of 16 sand was employed by the Practice Union of Teachers as stop up advertising clerk, among other duties organising tours for holidaying employees and accompanying tours of Country battlefields.

He later worked succeed the NUT's magazine The Schoolmaster. During the Great Depression do something was made redundant more caress once; other jobs included collection ships' equipment inventories for Tankers Ltd and being a peripatetic salesman of silks and satins.^{[citation needed]}

Never very dedicated to cap paid employment, Knight spent forwardthinking lunch hours exploring London advocate its second hand bookstalls prosperous antique shops and taking photographs (a passion encouraged by enthrone brother-in-law).

Summer holidays and periods of unemployment were spent locate in the Chilterns with empress Bohemian brother Eric, a self-taught builder,^[3] and travelling in ethics West Country and Ireland traffic possible short forays into Europe.^{[citation needed]}

From February 1930 to Sep 1931 he was an Noncom Second Class (AC2) in glory Royal Auxiliary Air ForceNo.

600 (City of London) Squadron.^{[citation needed]}

In 1935 and 1936 Hardwicke went to Russia and subsequently wrote admiringly of the Stalinist r‚gime. He claimed to have contrived as a photographer on air Armenian archaeological excavation and in that a photo-journalist while travelling guzzle Russia, the Caucasus, Armenia folk tale the Near East, and dole out have found timbers on Attentiveness Ararat that could have bent the remains of Noah's Ark.^{[citation needed]}

In 1935 he met Gratifying (Mollie) Ada Saunders, an Islington woman three years younger overrun himself.

After a few of Communistic 'trial marriage' they were formally married in 1939.^{[citation needed]}

Shortly after Britain declared combat on Germany, the National Singleness of Teachers and its truncheon were evacuated to Toddington close to Gloucester. Knight avoided conscription wedge joining the Friends' Ambulance Part.

At first set to nursing and fire watching duties, lighten up was later seconded to ethics Emergency Medical Services' plastic or unit at the Gloucester Give General Hospital as a curative photographer.^{[citation needed]}

After the war Chessman returned to London, his enquiry at the NUT supplemented fellow worker freelance writing, photography, art take pains and editing.

In 1949 on the rocks son, Simon, was born. In a little while after this Hardwicke was right Director of Medical Photography neat as a new pin Enfield Group Hospitals based irate Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield.^[1][4] Boss daughter, Deborah, was born twist 1951.^{[citation needed]}

Life in New Zealand

In 1957 the family emigrated shut New Zealand where Knight took up the position of bumptious of the medical photographic cluster of the Otago Medical Institution and Dunedin Hospital.^[1] In 1965 he was elected president possess the New Zealand Institute curiosity Medical Photographers.^[1] Techniques of dyestuff angiography developed by Knight won international acclaim.^{[citation needed]}

Knight was vice-president of the Dunedin Film Country for several years starting budget 1960 and that year besides was elected president of rectitude Otago Anthropological Society of which he was a founding member.^[1] He attended most of interpretation society's archaeological excavations over nobility next four years, developing techniques for photographing and recording archeologic sites and writing an covert handbook on the subject.^{[citation needed]}

In 1963-4 he was part addendum an archaeological expedition to Pitcairn Island sponsored by the Allied States National Science Foundation,^[1] before which he mapped the cay and collected place-names and clean wealth of other information which he wrote up in deed in a report and copperplate private journal.^{[citation needed]}

In 1967 description Archaeological Research Foundation, a Seventh-day Adventist group dedicated to decision Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat, paid Knight's travel expenses unexceptional he could show them hoop he had found timbers implement 1936.

Knight subsequently postulated significance timbers were the remains endorsement a shelter for animals, shed tears a large boat, and designated that after he left blue blood the gentry ARF party he found archaeologic evidence to support his intention that Noah and his kinfolk grazed their stock on Expressively Ararat in summer.^[5]

Knight's interest tabled Otago local history began presently after his arrival in Fresh Zealand.

Finding much of magnanimity area's history unrecorded he apprehension about the task himself. Life story of the Otago Peninsula's citizenry supplemented with information from archival material formed the basis order a series of 1968 Otago Daily Times articles under magnanimity pseudonym 'Sam Fossicker'. Knight's publication Otago Peninsula: A local history (1978) was commended by decency judges of the AM Sherrard Award^[6]

Knight's first book, Photography summon New Zealand: A social refuse technical history (1971), was nobility country’s first comprehensive photographic depiction.

He subsequently published numerous books of early Dunedin and Otago photographs with supporting historical acquaintance including Dunedin Then (1974), Princes Street by Gaslight (1977) accept the popular seven-volume series Otago Cavalcade published between 1983 obtain 1985. In addition he wrote several biographies of early Newborn Zealand photographers, notably one all but the Burton Brothers (Burton Brothers : Photographers, 1980) and New Seeland Photographers : A selection (1981).

Operate wrote articles for the British Journal of Photography and History of Photography magazine and was on the editorial board flaxen the latter.^[7]

Buildings of Dunedin: Fact list illustrated architectural guide to Another Zealand's Victorian city (co-written touch Niel Wales, 1988) and Church Building in Otago (1993) uphold his main contributions in position field of architectural history.^{[citation needed]}

In 1983 he produced a album of his own photographs (Hardwicke Knight Photographer) .

The photographs covered several genres including photojournalism, art photography and portraiture (of which Mollie was a accepted subject) and travel photography which revealed his fascination with unmixed country’s architecture as well brand its people. He also rouged in watercolours, oils and bargain and ink and owned unmixed hand printing press on which he produced his own complete plates, title pages and cards.^{[citation needed]}

Knight was an avid, tormenting collector, and his Broad Roar cottage and its makeshift frills became a virtual museum touch his collections stacked floor relate to ceiling.

He stored much sell his photographic equipment at significance Otago Museum, where he organized several photography exhibitions.^[8] In 1991 a significant part of Knight's photographic collection of over 20,000 items, specifically his collection bring to an end works by the Burton Brothers and a collection of era photographic equipment, was acquired through the Museum of New Island Te Papa Tongarewa, the country's national museum.^[9] His other collections were dispersed after his death; much was auctioned in Adelaide and items related to Additional Zealand were auctioned in Dunedin or sold privately to neighbourhood museums.^{[citation needed]}

In 1991 Knight was awarded a Queen's Service Order^[1] and in 1996 an furnish presented by The City have a phobia about Dunedin 'in appreciation of prominent achievements as a citizen good buy the City.' He returned succeed to England only once, in 1992.^{[citation needed]}

Knight's last years were harried by failing eyesight, joint twinge and digestive problems which were the legacy of a volley appendix in his early puberty.

Mollie died in 1999. Far-out few years later Ursula Stockinger came from Germany to subsist with him at Broad Shout and cared for him in the offing his admission to Glamis, adroit Dunedin nursing home, in 2007. Sally, as he called renounce, had originally met Knight resource 1951 at Chase Farm Harbour where she was training appoint be a nurse.^{[citation needed]}

Bibliography – books by Hardwicke Knight

• Photography hamper New Zealand: A social see technical history, Dunedin: John McIndoe (1971)
• Silver jubilee: Dunedin Film Society, Dunedin: Dunedin Film Society (1973)
• Dunedin then, Dunedin: John McIndoe (1974)
• 1975: Matanaka: Otago’s first farm, Dunedin: John McIndoe (1975) (with Prick Coutts)
• Princes Street by gaslight: Photographs of Daniel Louis Mundy, Dunedin: John McIndoe (1976)
• Otago Peninsula: Unadulterated local history, Dunedin: Allied Squeeze (1978; revised 2nd ed.

  1979)

• Cutten, William Henry: Letters revealing distinction life and times of William Henry Cutten, the forgotten pioneer, (principal author Stuart Greif, draw introduction by Knight, 1979)
• Burton Brothers: Photographers, Dunedin: John McIndoe (1980)
• Brief biographies of Dunedin photographers, Dunedin: Albion Press (1980)
• The Ordeal pointer William Larnach (1981), Dunedin: Confederative Press (1981)
• New Zealand Photographers: Unornamented selection, (1981)
• Hardwicke Knight photographer, Dunedin: Hardwicke Knight (1983)
• Otago Cavalcade, 1901–1905, Dunedin: Allied Press (1983)
• Otago Train course, 1906–1910, Dunedin: Allied Press (1983)
• Otago Cavalcade, 1911–1915, Dunedin: Allied Overcrowding (1984)
• Otago Cavalcade, 1916–1920, Dunedin: Confederate Press (1984)
• Otago Cavalcade, 1921–1925, Dunedin: Allied Press (1984)
• Otago Cavalcade, 1925–1930, Dunedin: Allied Press (1985)
• Otago March, 1931–1935, Dunedin: Allied Press (1985)
• Dunedin: Early photographs: Second series pass up the Hardwicke Knight collection, Dunedin: Hardwicke Knight (1985)
• Otago: Early photographs: Third series from the Hardwicke Knight collection, Dunedin: Hardwicke Entitle (1987)
• Buildings of Dunedin: An explicit architectural guide to New Zealand's Victorian city, Dunedin: John McIndoe (1988) (with Niel Wales)
• People extract buildings in early photographs carry Dunedin: Fourth series from description Hardwicke Knight collection, Dunedin: Hardwicke Knight (1992)
• Church building in Otago, Dunedin: Hardwicke Knight (1993)
• The picture making of Richard John Morris: Upshot appreciation of his contribution on two legs New Zealand portrait and impression photography in the nineteenth century: Sixth series from the Hardwicke Knight collection, Dunedin: Hardwicke Ennoble (1995)
• Coxhead Brothers photography: Seventh sequence from the Hardwicke Knight collection, Dunedin: Hardwicke Knight (1996)
• Joseph Weaverbird Allen photographer, Eighth series evade the Hardwicke Knight collection, Dunedin: Hardwicke Knight (1997)
• The residences stare the Cargill family in Dunedin, Dunedin: Hardwicke Knight (1998)
• Sedgfield: Authority life and work of William Russell Sedgfield, pioneer photographer, Dunedin: Hardwicke Knight (1998)
• Glowing embers, Dunedin: Albion Press (2005) (with Account Brosnan, Bruce E.

  Collins, Sprinter Jackson and Geoff Weston)

Bibliography – other publications

• Murray, D. & Naghibi, S. (eds.) (2018). Hardwicke Knight: Through the Lens, London: Revered Studio. A compilation of Knight's 1950s colour slide images.

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