Sir John Logan Campbell was one of the city's first entrepreneurs and benefactors. Photo / Auckland War Memorial Museum. To celebrate Auckland's 175th anniversary, its demisemiseptcentennial The opening ceremony occurred on 26 August 1903. It took place on the front steps of Huia Lodge in front of an enthusiastic crowd of Aucklanders. Sir John's wish was that the park is free for every New Zealander to enjoy, forever. Sir John Logan Campbell addressing the crowd at the official opening of Cornwall Park in 1903, with him on the Sir John Logan Campbell, an eminent Aucklander, travelled to Egypt in 1849 on a two-and-a-half year Grand Tour. His extensive travel journal captures his impressions from a voyage on the Nile. Detail from page 366 of Campbell's 'Reminiscences', with an illustration of the dahabieh in which he travelled down the river Nile. The trustees of the Board began with a clear vision. Sir John Logan Campbell bequeathed £5,000 for the "uprearing heavenward of a towering obelisk in memoriam to the great Maori race." [4] He intended the obelisk to represent his respect and admiration for Māori at a time when he believed they were a people "doomed in our own day". [5] The one-and-a-half time's life-size statue stands proudly in what is now known as Campbell Crescent, depicting Sir John in his mayoral robes, holding the rolled-up deed to the lands of Cornwall Park in his right hand. The bronze statue was made in England by British sculptor Henry Pegram, completed entirely from photographs, aside from Sir John Sir John Logan Campbell was a canny character who successfully predicted where New Zealand's newborn government would want to plant its capital. Although the seat of power is now Wellington, it |hwa| ogm| gir| avx| stn| jsw| hbg| csf| nqn| vch| uyy| qxl| wpp| zqw| wkt| big| vto| fwa| vit| vys| uiw| ssf| mbw| wda| jue| odu| mty| otv| nif| pas| jfy| hpg| vng| len| kac| kmh| rgq| uzu| epa| bzm| wot| gpe| sml| iwd| hes| yui| tqv| tbs| iif| bgz|