Henry Skey (1836/7–1914)

Draughtsman. Emigrated to New Zealand with his brother William in 1860. Worked in the New Zealand goldfields, 1860–2. Draughtsman to the New Zealand geological survey from 1862. Senior draughtsman to the local Survey Department in Dunedin, 1882–1903. Presented a series of papers on astronomy and aeronautics at the Otago Institute, of which he was an early member.

Sources

DNZB s.v. Skey, William

Historic Cemeteries Conservation Trust of New Zealand, http://www.cemeteries.org.nz/stories/skeyhenry300907.pdf (accessed 8 May 2019)

New Zealand, cemetery records, 1800–2007 (Ancestry.com, accessed 19 August 2019)