Richard Strachan De Renzi HARMAN [1136]

  General Notes:

Birth
Richard Strachan De Renzy Harman
Birth Date: Oct-Nov-Dec 1896
Registration Place: Christchurch, New Zealand
Folio Number: 4147

Richard Strachan Renzy Harman
Birth Date: 18 Nov 1896
Birth Place: Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Enlistment Date: 13 Nov 1940
Father: Thomas De Henry Harman
Father Birth Place: Christchurch NZ
Mother: Jenny Harman
Mother Birth Place: Dunedin NZ
Service Number: WWI 40748, WWII 492539

Christ College Grammar School List, 1850-1921
Richard Strachan De Renzy Harman
Attendance Date: Feb 1908-1914
Residence Place: Christchurch, New Zealand
Father: Thomas De Renzy Harman

Deaths
Richard Strachan De Renzy Harman
Death Date: Jul-Aug-Sep 1953
Registration Place: Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Folio Number: 3505

New Zealand, Find a Grave Index,
Richard Strachan De Renzy Harman
Death Date: 15 Sep 1953
Cemetery: Waimairi Cemetery
Block AN13. Plot 48
Memorial ID 176852074 ·
Burial or Cremation Place: Burnside, Christchurch City, Canterbury, New Zealand
Has Bio?: N

Burials
Richard Strachan De Renzy Harman
Death Age: 79
Birth Date: 1898
Death Date: 1977
Burial Place: Canterbury, North, Central
Cemetery : Waimairi
Spouse: Jocelyn Mary Harman

Richard Harman writes about his father in 2012.
Father was born 1896, Christ's College, Christchurch School of Fine Art 1915-6, in France as a scout 1917-8. Trained with two architects, Hurst Seager and Cecil Wood. Worked for newly established National Trust in England, about 1927-32, inspected decaying properties to advise on their state, historic relevance, value, cost of repair, etc before the Trust bought them. Designed the Church of the God Shepherd for Tekapo, 1935, other churches and some nice houses, had finished design of St Mark's Church Opawa and done sketches for widening the Christ's College chapel, and was well through designing Napier Cathedral when he died of pancreatic cancer.

Richard married Jocelyn (Joy) Mary WILSON [1135] [MRIN: 359], daughter of Bishop Cecil WILSON [557] and Alice Ethel JULIUS [556], in 1932 in NZ. (Jocelyn (Joy) Mary WILSON [1135] was born on 10 Nov 1900 in Christchurch, died in 1991 in Christchurch and was buried in Waimarai NZ.)