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Charles de Thierry
A Life of Ambition and Drift Charles Philippe Hippolyte de Thierry was not a painter, but rather a nineteenth-century adventurer whose life was defined by the pursuit of sovereignty in distant lands. Born in 1793, likely in Grave, Netherlands, his early years were shaped by the displacement of a French family fleeing the Revolution. This sense of movement followed him from England to North America and eventually into the Pacific. He mov
ed through the world with a restless energy, seeking to carve out a kingdom where none existed. His academic years at Oxford and Cambridge brought him into contact with figures who would shape his later colonial ambitions. It was during this time that he met the Ngāpuhi chief Hongi Haki and the missionary Thomas Kendall. Through these connections, de Thierry arranged the purchase of 40,000 acres in Hokianga, Northland, for the remarkab…