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Thomas Bracken

Thomas Bracken
Thomas Bracken, Irish-New Zealander journalist, poet, and politician (d. 1898)

Thomas Bracken was an Irish-born New Zealand poet, journalist and politician. He wrote "God Defend New Zealand", one of the two national anthems of New Zealand, and was the first person to publish the phrase "God's Own Country" as applied to New Zealand. He also won the Otago Caledonian Society's prize for poetry.

21 December 1843

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