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Seated portrait of Henry Sewell with a cane, circa 1872, photographed by Swan & Wrigglesworth.

Henry Sewell, our first premier – or colonial secretary as early premiers were called – was more of a sojourner than a settler. Although he spent 17 years in New Zealand in three periods between 1853 and 1876, he never put down deep roots..