1. On his wife’s work see Mein Smith, ‘Isabella Truby King’, in C. Macdonald et al. (eds), Book of New Zealand Women, pp. 354–6.
2. Quoted in Linda Bryder, ‘Perceptions of Plunket: Time to Review Historians’ Interpretations?’, in L. Bryder and D. Dow (eds), New Countries and Old Medicine, conference proceedings 1994, Auckland, 1995, p. 99.
3. Gordon Parry, A Fence at the Top: The First 75 Years of the Plunket Society, Dunedin, 1982, p. 47.
4. See, for example, Ann Dally, Inventing Motherhood, London, 1982.
5. ‘Obituary’ NZMJ, vol. 37, no. 198, April 1938, p. 96.