Hocken Digital Collections

Dr Hocken’s original collection

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DescriptionIn 1907 Dr Thomas Morland Hocken gifted to Dunedin and the people of New Zealand his fine collection of books, manuscripts, newspapers, maps, pamphlets, photographs, pictures and artefacts relating to New Zealand, Pacific and early Australia. That gift is the foundation collection of the Hocken Library, which opened in 1910 in a wing of the Otago Museum, and has since then been built upon to become one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most significant research collections.
Now housed as the Hocken Collections on Anzac Avenue, Dr Hocken’s original gift remains at the heart of an ever-expanding collection informed by the scope and vision of that foundation and its collector.
Explore here digitised items from the original bequest, and glimpse at life in nineteenth century Aotearoa New Zealand as captured by Dr Hocken.
Check back regularly as we continue to digitise from the original collection and showcase it here.History / BiographyThomas Morland Hocken was born in 1836 in England, qualifying in medicine in 1856 and working as a ship’s surgeon until settling in Dunedin in 1862 and setting up a thriving medical practice.
A foundation president of the Otago Medical Association, inaugural president of the New Zealand Medical Association and Dunedin Coroner from 1862, Hocken was an energetic part of Dunedin professionally and socially; and increasingly part of wider NZ scholarship circles.
Dr Hocken was a dedicated, enthusiastic and tireless scholar and collector, sharing his knowledge widely through lectures, exhibitions, his own books and writings and the important Bibliography of Literature relating to New Zealand, published in 1909.
His legacy continues to expand and thrive. Collection SummaryExplore highlights from the Hocken’s foundation collection

Key plan to G.B. Shaw’s View of part of Dunedin &c from Stafford St. Nov. 1851. [Copy after Shaw by T.M. Hocken or E.M. Hocken]

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NamesHocken, Thomas Morland, Dr, 1836-1910

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