| | Maurice Shadbolt - Telegraph |
 | | Maurice Shadbolt, the New Zealand writer who has died aged 72, made his name in London as a short-story writer, then evolved into an internationally admired author of historical novels about the Maori wars of the 19th century. |
 | | Maurice Francis Richard Shadbolt was born on June 4 1932 at Auckland, New Zealand, the great-grandson of a farm labourer transported to Van Diemen's Land in 1826 for robbing a drapery shop at Datchworth, Hertfordshire. |
 | | Maurice Shadbolt had been married four times and had five children when he died on October 10. |
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