Willoughby Shortland

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Commander Willoughby Shortland (30 September 1804 – 7 October 1869) was a British naval officer and colonial administrator. He was New Zealand's first Colonial Secretary from 1841, after having arrived in New Zealand with Lieutenant Governor William Hobson in January 1840. He was later President of the island of Nevis and then Governor of Tobago.<ref name="TLG18540110">Template:Cite news</ref>

Early life and naval career

Shortland, born in 1804, was the son of Captain Thomas George Shortland and Elizabeth Tonkin. His brothers were Edward Shortland and Peter Frederick Shortland. Willoughby was educated at the Royal Naval College, and entered the service on 9 January 1818. Being gazetted a lieutenant on 18 August 1828, he served in Template:HMS, 42 guns, and in the following year in Ranger, 28 guns, on the Jamaica station. His first command, in 1830, was the schooner Template:HMS. From her, on 21 March 1831, he took command of Template:HMS, a schooner of 5 guns, and in her remained in the West Indies until June 1833.<ref name="dnb">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 1864, he was gazetted as a retired commander on the retired list as of 29 September.<ref name="TLG18640930">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="dnb"/>

Colonial work

New Zealand

In 1839 he accompanied Captain William Hobson, the first governor of New Zealand, to that colony, which had not then been annexed by the United Kingdom. Lieutenant Shortland was appointed colonial secretary and a magistrate.<ref name="CARv2-1">Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> An early court case related to the murder of European shepherd (Patrick Rooney) by Ngāpuhi known as Kihi, who was discovered and delivered up by other Ngāpuhi to the authorities at Kororāreka. Shortland was in the act of a magisterial examination of the charge against Kihi on 20 April 1840 when Haratua, a chief arrived with about three hundred armed warriors and began a haka. Shortland, believing the warriors had hostile intentions, sent for the troops. Edward Marsh Williams, who was present as a witness and who spoke Māori and understood Māori culture identified that Haratua and the warriors did not have any hostile intentions, having come over to make a public display of their abhorrence of the murder. Edward Williams persuaded Haratua and the warriors to leave and explained in a quiet way that it was ignorance of Māori culture on Shorthand's part that made him call for the troops.<ref name="CARv2-2">Template:Cite book</ref>

Shortland proceeded to Port Nicholson, Wellington, and the English living there very willingly acknowledged Queen Victoria's authority and Shortland's nomination as their police magistrate. Shortland was appointed the first colonial secretary on 3 May 1841<ref name="Te Ara">Template:Cite book</ref> and a member of the General Legislative Council courtesy of his post.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

On the death of Captain Hobson on 10 September 1842, the lieutenant administered the government of New Zealand until the arrival of Captain Robert FitzRoy on 31 December 1843.

The Tauranga Campaign of 1842

In 1842, soon after Governor Hobson's death, Acting Governor Shortland sought to interfere in an intertribal war of ancient origins at Tauranga and Maketu, Bay of Plenty, to put an end to such perpetual wars. A military force under Major Thomas Bunbury, 80th Regiment, was transported from Auckland to Tauranga by the Colonial Brig Victoria, under a pretext of the two tribes having respectively seized two boats belonging to Englishmen trading there. They disembarked at Mount Maunganui and built a camp at Hopukiore / Mount Drury. The warring tribes objected to the Government's right to interfere in their wars, and Shortland, finding intervention questionable and that his military force was very small, prompted some kind of mediation and withdrew the troops. No actual fighting took place. This was the first occasion on which the troops were called out on campaign in New Zealand, and perhaps the last occasion in which Māori ate some of their prisoners.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>Template:Rp<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

The Wairau Affray

{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} During Shortland's temporary government the Wairau Affray took place on 17 June 1843, and in his dispatches to the British government he expressed his disapproval of the conduct of the settlers, to which he attributed the massacre. This action made him unpopular, and, when a report of his nomination as Governor of New Zealand was circulated, a petition was sent from Auckland praying that he might not be appointed.<ref name="dnb"/> On 31 December 1843 he was dismissed from the colonial secretaryship by FitzRoy.<ref name="Te Ara" />

Nevis and Tobago

In 1845 became President of the island of Nevis in the Leeward Islands. After that, he was Governor of Tobago from 10 January 1854 until 1856, and then, returning to England, resided on his property, Courtlands, Charleton, Kingsbridge, Devon, until his death.<ref name="dnb"/><ref name="TLG18540110"/><ref name="HE2025"/><ref name="Adams2023 "/>

Family and death

He married, in 1841 in Auckland, Isabella Kate Johnston, daughter of Robert A. Fitzgerald of Geraldine, County Limerick. He died at Courtlands on 7 October 1869.<ref name="dnb"/>

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