John Davies Ormond

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John Davies Ormond (1832–1917) was a New Zealand politician whose positions included Superintendent of Hawke's Bay, Minister of Public Works and member of the New Zealand Legislative Council. Coming from Wallingford, Oxfordshire, (then Berkshire), England, he established a homestead called Wallingford in 1847, in Central Hawke's Bay, which became a major farming station.

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• Wallingford Station, Ormond family history
• Biography in the 1966 in Encyclopaedia of New Zealand