First NameJohn Barton Arundel Last NameAclandAlternative NameJ B A AclandJohn AclandBarton AclandDescriptionJBA Acland was born in England, the youngest child of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 10th Baronet. He trained as a lawyer in London and then in 1855 immigrated to New Zealand with his friend and colleague (and later brother-in-law) Charles Tripp. Together in they established Mt Peel Station, amongst the first to take up sheep farming in the Canterbury high country.