Anthony A Eddy

Anthony is 82, having been married to his wife, Adrienne, for 59 years. They have five married children: Carolyn, Alan, Marie, Emma, and Sarah with fourteen grandchildren: Matthew and Ella; Phillipa and Jonathan; Jeremy, Ngaire, and Trevor; Jake, Finn, Crystal, and Caleb; Bjorn, Greta, and Minka. Anthony graduated from Canterbury University, Christchurch, NZ with a B.Sc. in chemistry and mathematics in 1962. His forbears William Henry Eddy and Margaret Jane Eddy, née Oats, emigrated to New Zealand from Gulval, Cornwall, England in 1878 on a sailing ship, with a very slow passage time of 79 days, and with their three month old infant child, Margaret Anne, dying 21 October 1878 from Congestion of the brain. The Marlborough sailed via Plymouth 26 September 1878, and arrived Lyttelton 14 December 1878 with 336 assisted immigrants. His grandfather, Alfred Charles Eddy, aged three, to be a part of a family with a further eleven New Zealand born siblings all living to maturity.