Donald McLean (New Zealand politician)
Sir Donald McLean KCMG was a 19thcentury New Zealand politician and government official. He was involved in negotiations between the settler government and Mori from 1844 to 1861, eventually as Native Secretary and Land Purchase commissioner. He was one of the most influential figures in MoriPkeh relations in the mid1800s and was involved in the dispute over the Waitara Purchase, which led up to the First Taranaki War.
He was born on the Hebridean island of Tiree, and came to New Zealand via Australia in 1840. He married Susan Douglas Strang, daughter of the registrar of the Supreme Court in Wellington, Robert Strang, onAugust 1851. She died after giving birth to their son Douglas in December 1852 and her death deeply affected McLean he never remarried.
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