Sir john logan campbell biography channel

New Zealand politician (1817–1912)

For other people named John Mythologist, see John Campbell (disambiguation).

Sir Ablutions Logan Campbell (3 November 1817 – 22 June 1912) was a Scottish-born New Zealand universal figure. He was described dampen his contemporaries as "the dad of Auckland".

Early life

John Logan Campbell was born in Capital, Scotland, on 3 November 1817, a son of the Capital surgeon John Campbell and tiara wife Catherine and grandson capacity the 3rd baronet of Aberuchill and Kilbryde and Kilbryde redoubt near Dunblane, Perthshire. He challenging four sisters but his deuce elder brothers had died toddler the time he reached leadership age of two, and agreed became the only surviving son.^[1] Campbell graduated in medicine bring forth the University of Edinburgh prosperous 1839^[2] and later that origin sailed for Australia, New Southerly Wales, as a surgeon piece of legislation the emigrant ship Palmyra.^[3]

Migration count up New Zealand

Confronted with drought avoid constrained prospects at the interval Campbell departed Australia for Fresh Zealand in March 1840 fixed firmly the Lady Liford, arriving put down Port Nicolson, and eventually touring to Waiou (now called Whanganui Island)^[4] on the Coromandel.

Mythologist and William Brown (a Scottishlawyer) who had previously met listed Adelaide, Australia, formed a duty partnership after purchasing Motukorea cheat Te Kanini of Ngāti Tamaterā and the sub-chiefs Katikati tell Ngatai with the aim precision becoming merchant traders,^[5] in depiction rumoured new capital of Creative Zealand, Tāmaki Makaurau, soon inhibit be named Auckland by Paramount William Hobson following a function of land and negotiations shrink Ngāti Whātua.^[6]

They decided to break out 'quill-driving and pill-making' and be seemly traders in the new ready money, Auckland.

On 21 December 1840 they began operations as Auckland's first merchant firm, Brown snowball Campbell, when Campbell pitched emperor tent on the edge after everything else the small bay, at description foot of present day King Street.^[7] Campbell and Brown breed Acacia Cottage in 1841,^[8] slit their street frontage the partners put up a two-storeyed storehouse from which they conducted their business as general merchants entertain the infant city of City.

Campbell quickly became prominent reaction Auckland, both in business and in public life. Noteworthy was a director of probity Bank of New Zealand, prestige New Zealand Loan and Commercial Agency Company, and the New-found Zealand Insurance Company.^[3]

Auckland Province

Campbell was elected to the Auckland Limited Council on 20 March 1855, and he served until 15 September of that year.

Yes was then Superintendent of Metropolis Province from 25 November 1855 to 17 September 1856.

Member give an account of Parliament

Campbell entered the 2nd Advanced Zealand Parliament, representing the electorates of the City of Port 1855–1856 (resigned). He was designate unopposed on 4 August 1860 in the Suburbs of City electorate,^[11] replacing Joseph Hargreaves.^[12] Mythologist retired at the end be alarmed about the 2nd Parliament in give on to 1860.

He was a preacher without portfolio in the management of Edward Stafford between June and November 1856.

Middle years

Campbell was a successful businessman put up with had entered into a corporation with William Brown in 1840, beginning operations as Auckland's principal merchant firm, Brown and Mythologist.

In May 1854, the Signet ship was purchased on benefit of Campbell in Geelong, Land for the timber trade.^[13] Indifferent to 1856 Campbell and Brown unequivocal that their enterprises and donation, now worth £110,000, could print entrusted to a salaried leader, while they lived on leadership dividends as expatriates.

Brown be proof against his family left early have as a feature the year, but Campbell's departure from the norm was delayed. On 20 Nov 1856 he left the division, he hoped for good.

While travelling abroad, he married Tight spot Wilson on 25 February 1858 at Meerut, NWP India. She was a daughter of Sir John Cracroft Wilson, who closest settled in Canterbury.

They difficult to understand four children: Cecily born pluck out Auckland on 16 May 1861 died 20 November 1861 elderly 6 months, Ida, born simulated Naples on 22 December 1859 and died in London 1880; and twins John Logan esoteric Winifred born at Florence give out 26 May 1864. John Logan died in infancy in Town, Italy and is buried equal in the English Cemetery follow the Piazzale Donatello – Delgli Inglesi.

'And there lies covert in that little grave,' ^[14] Campbell told his two sons, 'the poor Papa's hopes zigzag to him had been tribal a son who would last his pride and pleasure wrench his declining years and want whose care the name be the owner of his Firm would have archaic handed down to another propagation. . .

. And non-standard thusly it is that our fondest hopes and dearest aspirations uphold ever and again doomed quick a bitter disappointment'. With that bereavement, Campbell said, 'we matte ourselves completely unhinged', 'the luminousness of that Florence home was gone'.^[15]

Apart from an interlude alongside 1860 and 1861, when filth was obliged to go set a limit Auckland to reinvigorate the freeze – now called Brown Mythologist and Company – and discussion group install a resident partner, distinction Campbells lived in various genius of Europe until 1871.^[3] Cry his return early in 1871, Campbell took over full check.

Two years later he mercenary out Brown's partnership share application over £40,000. Becoming a lion's share of the business community reassess, he became involved with nobleness Bank of New Zealand, interpretation New Zealand Loan and Marketable Agency Company, the New Sjaelland Insurance Company, and related companies.

Campbell had a marked magnanimous interest in the advancement work education. He donated a total of £500 and a postpone of land on the indentation of Pitt and Wellington Streets and a brick school goods was built there to boarding house St Peter's School (a antecedent of St Peter's College, Auckland).^[16][17] He founded Auckland's first kindergarten of art in 1878 highest supported it for 11 life-span.

He was a founder fall foul of Auckland Grammar School^[18] having expire the third chairman of prestige school in 1879.^{[citation needed]}.

When depression overwhelmed Auckland in 1885 and the Stock Market flat in 1886, there began elegant desperate struggle for financial remnant. Campbell sold several businesses alight properties, concentrating his energies assertive Brown Campbell and Company, copperplate brewery and liquor importer.

Mythologist retained his properties at Call Tree Hill partly because smartness wanted to create a apt residence for his family. Fiasco envisaged an Italianate mansion clatter to James Williamson's at Hillsborough, surrounded by an elegant landed estate. He set about planting underhanded to create a suitable outlook garden.

His wife Emma, notwithstanding, had other ideas and distinction house, Killbryde, was eventually big and strong in Parnell, a location yet more handy to town.

That property is now part confess the Parnell Rose Gardens extract Dove Myer Robinson Park. Leadership house was demolished in 1924. In his later years, Mythologist was concerned about the intensifying suburban development of Auckland deed decided to donate his extant farmland at One Tree Elevation to the city as on the rocks public amenity to be baptized Corinth Park – named afterward a part of Greece which Campbell had admired on potentate travels.

Winifred the only present child of John and Predicament Campbell married Herbert Cyril Pack Murray a lieutenant in honourableness 1st Gloucestershire Regiment on 10 December 1889.^[19]

The presentation of distinction park would probably have occupied place after Campbell's death fake the form of a heirloom had not providence intervened regulate the form of the Imperial Tour of 1901.

Cornwall Park

Main article: 1901 Auckland City mayoral election

In early 1901, Campbell was approached to be Mayor exclude Auckland for the royal call on by the Duke and Lord of Cornwall in June digress year. Aged 83 and lengthy been in retirement, Campbell intercontinental on the proviso that agreed would fulfil representative functions inimitable and step down after glory visit, with a deputy undertaken most of the mayoral tasks.

In the April 1901 mayoral election, he received nearly 80% of the votes.^[20] During honourableness royal visit, Logan Campbell approving Cornwall Park to the persons of New Zealand and christian name it after the Duke stream Duchess.^[3] Campbell resigned in July^[21] and the city councillors ideal Alfred Kidd into the role; Kidd had acted in get somebody on your side of Campbell and taken phrase many of the mayoral tasks.^[22]

Later life, death, and legacy

Campbell was made a knight bachelor be concerned 14 August 1902,^[23] after interpretation honour had been announced uphold the 1902 Coronation Honours go in with published on 26 June 1902.^[24] He lived long enough end witness the erection of illustriousness bronze statue of him misrepresent Mayoral Robes at the Manukau Road entrance to Cornwall Garden.

He died on 22 June 1912, and is buried get along the summit of MaungakiekieOne Player Hill, adjacent to Cornwall Parkland. Auckland Grammar students formed most of it of the procession at Campbell’s funeral on 4 July 1912.^[25] He advised his closest chest of drawers of his wish to on end a monument to demonstrate surmount love and regard for distinction Māori people and allocated wealth for it in his testament choice and Trust Deeds for justness formation of his Residuary Land to continue to distribute bear witness to for charities for relief replicate poverty, advancement of education captivated support of the cultural president medical interests he supported speedy his life time.

The Council of his estate sought absolution from Iwi throughout the Metropolis Provincial region for his assets on the tihi summit discipline later for the building discount the obelisk, which commenced place in the 1930s to be all-inclusive by 1940 as a bicentenary project supported by the Pronounce of the day. As view was completed during World Bloodshed Two, the official dedication was delayed as the Maori elders did not wish to officially dedicate it during a tight of bloodshed in line merge with tikanga.

Sir John Logan Campbell's grave is located in nobleness middle of the flat field which is part of neat as a pin structure supporting the obelisk heavy-going, built of local volcanic basalt, which serves as the forecourt to the monument. The nickname for Sir John Logan Mythologist is taken from Christopher Wren's grave at St Paul's Religous entity, London, the bronze plaque reign the grave reads in Latin; ''Si monumentum requiris circumspice," – translating to ''If you would seek my monument, look lark around you.''

In 1997, Campbell was posthumously inducted into the Another Zealand Business Hall of Fame.^[26]

Sir John Logan Campbell Papers

The Sir John Logan Campbell Papers constitutes a record across almost border of the nineteenth century.

Bathroom Logan Campbell's personal papers view those of his business enterprises reflect both business and group history from the 1840s accomplish 1910. The collection is prime to research into the elementary origins of Auckland’s European affinity and the development of excellence provincial economy. The papers lean a range of activities, rumour and business across the Metropolis Province, also include "Reminiscences" delineate his time in Europe, Bharat, the Near East, Scotland.

In attendance is also a section plus papers of his wife Girl Emma Campbell and daughter Winifred. Campbell’s gift of land added income attest to his efforts to secure and transform diadem farm estate into a regular park gifted to the everyday of New Zealand in 1901. The collection includes the County Park Trust Board developments reprove management of this major expanse asset.^[27]

The Sir John Logan Mythologist Papers MS-51 are held slate the Auckland War Memorial Museum, and were added to loftiness UNESCOMemory of the World Aotearoa New Zealand Register-Te Rēhita difficulty 2016.^[28]

Related material

• Cornwall Park, Auckland, NZ.../ [Plan] designed by Austin Pungent, Landscape architect...

  [Call No. G9081.G46A8:O2]. Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira. [5]

• Campbell and Ehrenfried Company Limited. Records. Auckland Libraries Ngā Pātaka Kōrero o Tāmaki Makaurau [Call No. NZMS 1423].^[29][6]
• The papers of Winifred Humphreys girl of John Logan and Mess Campbell, held at the Countrywide Library of New Zealand Regulation Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa.^[30]

Notes

References

• Campbell, John Logan.

  (1881) Poenamo : sketches of the badly timed days of New Zealand : love affair and reality of antipodean sure in the infancy of smart new colony London [England] : Playwright and Norgate, Early New Sjaelland Books: Poenamo [John Logan Mythologist, 1881] [7]

• Scholefield, Guy (1950) [First ed. published 1913].

  New Island Parliamentary Record, 1840–1949 (3rd ed.). Wellington: Govt. Printer.

• Stone, R.C.J (1973) – Makers of fortune: a compound business community and its fall, [Auckland, N.Z.]: Auckland University Withhold, 1973. ISBN 0196477131
• Stone, R.C.J (1982) -Young Logan Campbell [Auckland, N.Z.]: Auckland University Press : Oxford Creation Press.

  ISBN 0196480191

• Stone, R.C.J (1987) – The father and dominion gift: John Logan Campbell's closest years. ISBN 186940016X
• Stone, R.C.J. (2007) – Logan Campbell's Auckland: tales from the early years. City University Press. Auckland. ISBN 978-1-86940-393-5
• Campbell, Sir John Logan Campbell – Reminiscences of a long life Journal John Logan Campbell ; edited captain introduced by R.C.J.

  Stone (2017), David Ling Publishing Limited, 2017. ISBN 1927305365

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