Elizabeth (Eliza) Rachel Jean Stack (née Jones; 19 February 1829 – 2 December 1919) was a New Zealand settler, author and botanist. Stack was born in Anglesey, Wales in 1829. She was the daughter of Humphrey Jones, the Controller of Customs at Holyhead. The youngest of nine, Stack was fourteen when she was orphaned, and went to live with relatives, variously in Edinburgh, Stockwell, and Barnstable. In 1856 Stack's brother Humphrey Jones, an Assistant Commissary-General, returned to England from the Crimean War. He was then ordered to New Zealand, and having recently been widowed, invited his sister to join him. Jones and Stack travelled with a maid to New Zealand in 1857 aboard the Dinapore, a journey Stack describes as "long and tedious and not marked by any striking incidents". Stack enjoyed the musical talents of Andrew Buchanan's daughters, which helped to while away the four-month j...
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