Sir John Logan Campbell

1817 - 1912  (94 years)

• Name	Sir John Logan Campbell
  Born	3 Nov 1817
  Gender	Male
  Died	22 Jun 1912	Kilbryde, New Zealand
  Buried	summit of One Tree Hill
  Person ID	I3471	Admin Kevin's Chiefly Lines
  Last Modified	12 Jun 2022

  
  

  Father	John Campbell, MD,   b. Jul 1785,   d. 1867  (Age 81 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Catherine Logan,   b. 1788,   d. 1865  (Age 77 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	1808
  Family ID	F1464	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Opetaua Tonga Awhikam, from the Te Ati Awa tribe,   b. Abt 1821, New Zealand ,   d. New Zealand
  Married	Abt 1841
  Children	1. Areka (Alex) Campbell,   b. New Zealand ,   d. New Zealand  [natural]   2. Mereana Campbell,   b. 1841, New Zealand ,   d. 1864  (Age 23 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	12 Jun 2022
  Family ID	F0065	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Emma Cracroft Wilson,   b. Cawnpore, India
  Married	23 Feb 1858	Meerut, India
  Children	1. Ida Campbell,   b. 22 Dec 1858, Naples, Italy ,   d. 8 Oct 1880  (Age 21 years)  [natural]   2. Cicily Campbell,   b. 15 May 1861,   d. 20 Nov 1861  (Age 0 years)  [natural]   3. John Logan Campbell,   b. 26 May 1864,   d. 5 Feb 1867, infancy  (Age 2 years)  [natural]   4. Winifred Campbell,   b. 26 May 1864  [natural]
  Last Modified	12 Jun 2022
  Family ID	F1465	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  http://www.cornwallpark.co.nz/sirjohn.asp http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/C/CampbellSirJohnLogan/CampbellSirJohnLogan/en Sir John Logan Campbell was termed the father of Auckland within his own lifetime. - A chronology of his life is: - Born Edinburgh 3 November 1817. - Graduated doctor of medicine University of Edinburgh, 1839. - Sailed to Australia, 1839, met business partner William Brown on the ship. - Arrived Herekino, Coromandel Peninsula, 1840. - Moved to Auckland - purchased Motukorea, Browns Island. Set up trading company, 1840. - Acacia Cottage built, 1841. - Partners purchase One Tree Hill estate, 1853. - Elected superintendent of Auckland province, 1855. - Married to Emma Cracroft Wilson, 1858. - Children born 1859, 1861 and 1864 (twins). - Brown and Campbell partnership dissolved, 1873. - Brown and Campbell merges with Ehrenfried Brothers to become Campbell & Ehrenfried Co. Ltd, 1897. - Elected Mayor of Auckland, 1901. - Donated Cornwall Park, 1901. - Knighted, 1902 - Opens Cornwall Park, 1903. - Died 22 June 1912. He is buried on the summit of One Tree Hill. The many roles commercial and civic that Campbell played in the fledgling and growing city settle his reputation as the father of the city. His business here was founded the same year as Auckland and he became central to the commerce and politics of the city. As well as trading in merchandise and farming he was involved in shipping, brewing, timber, export of flax, kauri gum and manganese, newspaper publishing and banking, being a foundation director of the Bank of New Zealand. His public roles were in the government of the province and as a member of the New Zealand parliament, as a captain of the militia and in the foundation of the Mechanics Institute and the Northern Club to name a few. He lived abroad for much of the period 1855 to 1871. His palatial home Kilbryde, built in 1877 in Parnell, no longer exists. Only one of his children survived him and he has no descendants alive today. He is commemorated in the Park by the statue of him in his Mayoral robes, sited in Campbell Crescent at the city end of the Park. The two volume biography of Campbell is: - R.C.J. Stone, 1982, Young Logan Campbell, Auckland University Press - R.C.J. Stone, 1987, The Father and His Gift, Auckland University Press. Sir John's own account of his early life is Poenamo, London 1881. It has been republished many times in different editions.