Margin below image in ink: T.M. Hocken; label: Na Te Hakena Tenei Tiki; label in ink in Dr Hocken's hand: Captain (Admiral) John Lort Stokes, R.N. was born st Scotchwell House, Pembrokeshire, in 1806 (?). Entered the Navy as a volunteer in 1824 on…
Joanna Paul did this drawing when the chair was still in Charles Brasch's house - it subsequently became Rodney Kennedy's, then Pat France's, then Tim Garrity's. Tim gave it to the Hocken Library.