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Charles Heaphy VC (1820 – 3 August 1881) was an English-born New Zealand explorer and recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest military award for gallantry "in the face of the enemy" that could be awarded to British and Empire forces at the time. He was the first soldier of the New Zealand armed forces to be awarded the VC.
8 de nov. de 2017 · Charles Heaphy. The multi-faceted Charles Heaphy made quite an impact on colonial New Zealand as an artist, explorer, soldier and colonial administrator. He was the first colonial soldier to win the Victoria Cross.
Heaphy was an ideal colonist as he was an acute observer, energetic, persistent and versatile. He arrived in Wellington in 1839 and was soon convinced there was flat, farmable land in the centre of the South Island. The New Zealand Company employed him as an explorer.
1820–1881. Draughtsman, artist, surveyor, explorer, soldier, public servant. This biography, written by Michael Fitzgerald, was first published in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography in 1990. Charles Heaphy was born in London, England, probably in 1820, the youngest of five children.
Charles Heaphy. Lifetime: 1820–3 Aug 1881. Biography. Charles Heaphy. The multi-faceted Charles Heaphy made quite an impact on colonial New Zealand as an artist, explorer, soldier and colonial administrator. He was the first colonial soldier to win the Victoria Cross. Read more... Events In History. 11 February 1864.
Charles Heaphy. (c. 1820—1881) artist and colonial official in New Zealand. Quick Reference. ( c. 1820–81). English-born painter mainly active in New Zealand. Born in London, the second son of Thomas Heaphy (1775–1835), a portrait and watercolour painter, Heaphy studied at the RA Schools ...
Charles Heaphy's watercolour of Mt Taranaki (Mt Egmont) has become one of the icons of New Zealand painting. Heaphy painted the work in 1840, when he was still a young man – no more than 20 – and was employed as the artist and draughtsman for the New Zealand Company.
