Experiments in Australia and New Zealand (1902). He also published a number of poems, such as "The Passing of the Forest" and "A Colonist in his Garden". Reeves married Magdalen Stuart Robison in 1885. She was a feminist who later joined the Fabian Society. They had two daughters, the feminist writer Amber Reeves (born 1887) and Beryl (born 1889), and one son, Fabian Pember Reeves (1895–1917), who was killed in the First World War, aged 21, as a Flight Lieutenant in the RNAS. Reeves three times declined offers of a knighthood. Works State Experiments in Australia & New Zealand. London: Grant Richards. 1902. See also List of Canterbury representative cricketers Notes References External links Biography in the 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand , or at the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre "The Passing of the Forest" at the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre |- |- |- 1857 births 1932 deaths New Zealand Liberal Party MPs 20th-century New Zealand historians 19th-century New Zealand lawyers People from Lyttelton, New Zealand Members of the Cabinet of New Zealand New Zealand education ministers Labour ministers of New Zealand Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives People associated with the London School of Economics People educated at Christ's College, Christchurch New Zealand MPs for Christchurch electorates High Commissioners of New Zealand to the United Kingdom Members of the Fabian Society 19th-century New Zealand politicians Canterbury cricketers Cricketers from Christchurch 19th-century New Zealand historians Justice ministers of New Zealand William Pember