page_title: Thomas William Adams
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas William Adams
caption_attribution_description: English: This photograph is of the members of the North Canterbury Education Board in January 1916, seated in the octagonal tower room of the Normal School on Cranmer Square, a building sadly demolished in 2012 due to quake damage. From August 1916 the Education Districts of South Canterbury, Grey and Westland were amalgamated with North Canterbury, and the resulting Canterbury Education Board moved to premises on Oxford Terrace, near Victoria Square. The Education Act of 1877 introduced a national system of free, secular, compulsory education, and established the Department of Education and Education Boards around the country to direct and inspect schools. Previously education had been administered by the Provincial governments. In 1989 the Department of Education and the District Education Boards were disestablished, making way for a de-centralised administration of education under the Ministry of Education. The people in the photograph, from left to right, are: John Jamieson, Matthew Dalziel, William Alexander Banks, Hugh Boyd, Henry Christopher Lane (Secretary), Charles Henry Opie (Chairman), Thomas William Adams, W. Brock (Senior Inspector), George Rennie, Ernest Herbert Andrews, William Henry Collins. Archives New Zealand Reference: CH278, folder 11 www.archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=20228274 For further enquiries please email christchurch.archives@dia.govt.nz Material from Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga
context_page_description: Alfred Albert Thomas William Adams, known as Thomas William Adams, was a New Zealand farmer, forester, churchman and educationalist.
  He was born in Graveley, Cambridgeshire, England on 24 June 1842. In 1862 he emigrated to New Zealand on the African. He bought 100 acres of virgin tussock land at Greendale in Canterbury in 1865 and converted them to farmland. The area prospered over the next few years as more farmers developed land.
  Adams married Lucy Pannett in 1867 and they had a daughter the following year. Lucy drowned in 1869. Adams married her sister Harriet in 1872, and they had five sons and three daughters together.
  Adams was a pioneer in planting trials, obtaining seeds from correspondents around the world, keeping records and publishing the results. He started planting trees in 1868 for shelter and fuel, and by 1908 had created an arboretum of 800 species. His recommendation of Pinus radiata and other pines influenced early New Zealand forestry. In 1913 he was a member of the Royal Commission on Forestry, and in 1918 he became a lifetime member of the New Zealand Forestry League.
context_section_description: Alfred Albert Thomas William Adams (24 June 1842 – 1 June 1919), known as Thomas William Adams, was a New Zealand farmer, forester, churchman and educationalist.
  He was born in Graveley, Cambridgeshire, England on 24 June 1842. In 1862 he emigrated to New Zealand on the African. He bought 100 acres (40 ha) of virgin tussock land at Greendale in Canterbury in 1865 and converted them to farmland. The area prospered over the next few years as more farmers developed land.
  Adams married Lucy Pannett in 1867 and they had a daughter the following year. Lucy drowned in 1869. Adams married her sister Harriet in 1872, and they had five sons and three daughters together.
  Adams was a pioneer in planting trials, obtaining seeds from correspondents around the world, keeping records and publishing the results. He started planting trees in 1868 for shelter and fuel, and by 1908 had created an arboretum of 800 species. His recommendation of Pinus radiata and other pines influenced early New Zealand forestry. In 1913 he was a member of the Royal Commission on Forestry, and in 1918 he became a lifetime member of the New Zealand Forestry League.
  For 40 years, Adams taught Sunday school at Greendale, which began by teaching local children to read. He was instrumental in the formation of the Greendale day school in 1872, and served on the North Canterbury Education Board from 1892 to 1918, serving as chairman from 1897 to 1905. He was also a governor of Canterbury College (now University of Canterbury) from 1897 until his death.
  He was the first secretary of the Canterbury Baptist Association, and later its president.
  Adams died at Greendale on 1 June 1919 and was buried there. His will left £2000 and 98 acres (40 ha) of land to Canterbury College to be used for a school of forestry. Harriet died 15 January 1934 and was buried with him. The school of forestry opened in 1924, and about 1975 a T.W. Adams Scholarship was set up to support postgraduate forestry students.
caption: Adams in 1916 (fifth from right) at an Education Board meeting
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