Alexander Hare McLintock

Alexander Hare McLintock (born April 14, 1903 in Gore , Southland , New Zealand , † May 29, 1968 in Dunedin , New Zealand) was a New Zealand historian, lecturer and painter, who became known through the publication of the work An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand .

Life

childhood

Alexander Hare McLintock was born on April 14, 1903 in Gore , in the south of the South Island of New Zealand. His father, Robert Alexander Hare McLintock , was an engineer and, like his wife, Christina Jane Cameron McDonald, came from Scotland . McLintock was raised in the Scottish tradition by his parents and attended Caversham School as a child and later Otago Boys' High School , both in Dunedin , Otago .

Teacher and lecturer

After training as a teacher at Dunedin Training College , he practiced his profession from 1921 to 1929. During this time he studied at the same time at the University of Otago in Dunedin and graduated in history with the highest distinction in 1928.

McLintock was an excellent debater, which earned him a reputation as a student at university, was interested in art and music, and played the piano himself. Later he found himself painting. On January 11, 1928, he married Eva Maude Adams , with whom he had a daughter. From 1929 to 1936 he taught at the Timaru Technical College and at the same time from 1930 to 1934 at the Workers' Educational Association (WEA). In 1936 he went to London to do his Ph.D. at King's College. (Doctor) to do. His dissertation The establishment of constitutional government in Newfoundland 1783-1832 he published in 1941 as his first book. From 1940 to 1952 he taught as a lecturer at the University of Otago , first in the history department, then in English from 1946.

Work as a historian

During his time at the University of Otago , McLintock worked on the history of the New Zealand province of Otago and created a complete work with his 17 works on the individual districts of Otago , which he summarized in 1949 in the work The History of Otago . In the same year he was awarded the Ernest Scott Prize from the University of Melbourne . With this honor, McLintock rose to become the most important historian of his time in New Zealand. It was all the more a shock to him and the public when he was denied the chair of history at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch that year.

In 1952 he accepted the New Zealand parliament's offer to work for the parliament as a historian. In this function he created four other works, including An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand , for which he was commissioned in the early 1960s and made him known not only nationwide with its publication in 1966.

Creative time as a painter and art expert

McLintock took an early interest in art, started painting himself and actively supported the art scene. From 1938 to 1940 he was the organizer of the National Centennial Exhibition of New Zealand Art and its director from 1939. In 1937 and 1947 he exhibited his own works at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Exhibitions at the Royal Scottish Academy and the New English Art Club also followed. Some of his work was also shown at the 1958 New Zealand Art Exhibition in Russia. McLintock was a member of the Arts Advisory Committee of the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council of New Zealand and was active in the Otago Art Society and the Otago Photographic Society .

Marked by cancer, he ended his work as a historian for Parliament in February 1968. A few months later he died of his illness on May 29th in Dunedin .

Occasionally, McLintock's works are traded at auctions in New Zealand, as most recently at an auction in Wellington in January 2014.

Awards

1949 - Ernest Scott Prize from the University of Melbourne
1953 - Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE )
???? - Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

Works

Longmans, Green and Co. (Ed.): The establishment of constitutional government in Newfoundland 1783-1832 . London 1941 (English).

Otago Centennial Historical Publications (Ed.): The History of Otago . Dunedin 1949 (English).

Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd (Eds.): The Port of Otago . Christchurch 1951 (English).

RE Owen, Government Printer (Ed.): Liquor and the King Country . Wellington 1953 (English).

RE Owen, Government Printer (Ed.): Crown Colony Government in New Zealand . Wellington 1958 (English).

RE Owen, Government Printer (Ed.): Descriptive Atlas of New Zealand . Wellington 1960 (English).

RE Owen, Government Printer (Ed.): An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand . 3 volumes. Wellington 1966 (English).

RE Owen, Government Printer (Ed.): The upper house in colonial New Zealand . a study of the Legislative Council of New Zealand in the period 1854–1887 . Wellington 1987 (English, revised and completed by GA Wood after McLintock's death ).

literature

Edmund Bohan : McLintock, Alexander Hare . In: Dictionary of New Zealand Biography . Volume 4 . Bridget Williams Books , Wellington 1998 ( online [accessed December 13, 2015]).
McLintock, Alexander Hare . In: Petersen, George Conrad (Ed.): Who's who in New Zealand and Western Pacific . 9th edition . AH and AW Reed , Wellington 1968 (English).
Creating a National Spirit: Celebrating New Zealand's Centennial . Victoria University Press , Wellington 2004 ( online [accessed December 13, 2015]).

Web links

Welcome to the digitized version of AH McLintock's 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand . Ministry for Culture & Heritage ,accessed on December 13, 2015(English, The data of the online edition was taken from the original and not corrected or subsequently edited.).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Bohan : McLintock, Alexander Hare . In: Dictionary of New Zealand Biography . 1998.
↑ Shirley Tunnicliff : 10: Scholefield's Dictionary . In: Creating a National Spirit: Celebrating New Zealand's Centennial . 2004, p. 147 (English, online [accessed December 13, 2015]).
↑ Alexander Hare McLintock (1903-1968) New Zealand . Australian Art Auction Records , accessed December 13, 2015 (English, five works by McLintock ).
↑ McLINTOCK, Alexander Hare . In: Petersen, George Conrad (Ed.): Who's who in New Zealand and Western Pacific . 9th edition . AH and AW Reed , Wellington 1968 (English).
^ Roger Blackley : 16: Centennial Exhibitions of Art . In: Creating a National Spirit: Celebrating New Zealand's Centennial . 2004, p. 222 f . (English, online [accessed December 13, 2015]).
↑ Affortable kind Aucktion . (PDF 2.7 MB) Dunbar Sloane Ltd , January 29, 2014, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved December 13, 2015 (English, five papers by McLintock ).

personal data
SURNAME	McLintock, Alexander Hare
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	New Zealand historian, lecturer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH	April 14, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gore , New Zealand
DATE OF DEATH	May 29, 1968
Place of death	Dunedin , New Zealand

[Bohan-1] Bohan : McLintock, Alexander Hare . In: Dictionary of New Zealand Biography . 1998.

[Tunnicliff_S147-2] Shirley Tunnicliff : 10: Scholefield's Dictionary . In: Creating a National Spirit: Celebrating New Zealand's Centennial . 2004, p. 147 (English, online [accessed December 13, 2015]).

[Australien_Art_Auction_Records-3] Alexander Hare McLintock (1903-1968) New Zealand . Australian Art Auction Records , accessed December 13, 2015 (English, five works by McLintock ).

[Who_is_who-4] McLINTOCK, Alexander Hare . In: Petersen, George Conrad (Ed.): Who's who in New Zealand and Western Pacific . 9th edition . AH and AW Reed , Wellington 1968 (English).

[Blackley_S222f-5] Roger Blackley : 16: Centennial Exhibitions of Art . In: Creating a National Spirit: Celebrating New Zealand's Centennial . 2004, p. 222 f . (English, online [accessed December 13, 2015]).

[Dunbar_Sloane-6] Affortable kind Aucktion . (PDF 2.7 MB) Dunbar Sloane Ltd , January 29, 2014, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved December 13, 2015 (English, five papers by McLintock ).