Name, month/year of birth, date and place of death, from research file10 in June 2017.

Cause of death: air crash in 1953

Brian of nzolivers.com says Sholto Duncan entered his father’s brewing business and in 1937, along with his brother Richard (Dick) Duncan, and father’s cousin Harry Dodson became partners.

Further background information here:

A Nelson brewing family
Extracts from:
http://www.theprow.org.nz/enterprise/nelson-brewing-family/#.WUxqMMZ7F0o
Joseph Dodson [Sholto Duncan’s great-grandfather] was a clever English businessman who, within days of arriving in Nelson in 1854, bought into Hooper & Co. [Brewery].
Henry Dodson [Sholto great-uncle] joined his father [Joseph Dodson] in brewing in 1879 and after George Hooper's death they changed the company name to J R Dodson and Son.
Henry Duncan, [Sholto father] son of Joseph Dodson's daughter Mary-Ann, joined his uncle and grandfather in 1888. When Joseph Dodson died in 1890, Henry Duncan and Henry Dodson continued to run the firm until Henry Dodson's early death in 1894.
Henry Duncan, [Sholto father] had inherited his grandfather's business sense, and in 1901 bought the entire company and began an extensive upgrade. He also took on his cousin Harry Dodson, and expanded into aerated waters and cordials.
Henry's sons, Richard (Dick) Duncan and Sholto Duncan became partners in 1937, along with Harry Dodson. The family began to focus on the malting process and were soon supplying malt to breweries around New Zealand. Dick and Sholto were both on military service in Europe when their father died in 1942. By then, the company owned nine hotels: Customhouse, Pier, Central, Royal, Tasman, Prince Albert, Commercial, Brightwater and Star & Garter. In 1944, with the equipment ageing, the beer was sent to Harley & Sons for bottling. Rising costs after the war saw the brewery close to bankruptcy so the Duncan family's Nelson Brewery was merged with the Harley family's Raglan Brewery on Trafalgar Square. The new business was renamed Nelson Breweries Ltd.
Sholto Duncan died tragically in an air crash in 1953, after which Dick Duncan continued to run the business with J A (Auty) Harley.

Sholto's sons Nick Duncan and John Duncan both worked in the [family] brewery [Nelson Breweries Ltd formerly J. R. Dodson & Son] with their uncle after school and during holidays. Nick completed a food technology degree on leaving school, before returning to the family business. After studying microbiology, John joined Penfolds Wines as a technician. Meanwhile, as the last remaining brewery in Nelson, Nelson Breweries was faced with the prospect of massive capital investment to modernise. The outlay was deemed unviable, and the business sold to Dominion Breweries in 1969.2 D.B. promptly closed the brewery and the Rutherford Hotel now stands on the site.
With the sale, Nick Duncan transferred to Dominion Breweries and trained as a brewer, working first in Auckland, then Mangatainoka, Greymouth and Timaru.
Meanwhile, John had left Penfolds and worked a number of jobs, always visiting Nick at his postings around the country. Beer was always part of family conversations during these visits and it was a fateful coincidence that McCashin's Brewery was looking for a maltster and brewer when John decided to move with his family back to Nelson in 1986. It was to prove a homecoming in more ways than one. During the ensuing twelve years a desire grew in John to rekindle the family tradition, so with his wife Carol he [John] set out to establish a new Duncan family brewery.

Grand Mansion Plays Many Roles
http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/lifestyle-enter...ion-plays-many-roles
Sitting majestically just inside the entrance to Nelson's Founders Park, Duncan House has numerous tales to tell, if only it could speak....
During the late 1800s and early 1900s, various alterations saw it evolve into a two-storey house, then a private hospital, before being bought in 1902 by JR Dodson Brewery owner Henry Duncan, the grandfather of Founders Brewery owner John Duncan [John is the son of this Sholto Russell Duncan].