Logan Campbell (politician)

Sir John Logan Campbell, MD, FRCS, Knight Bachelor, ( born November 3, 1817 in Edinburgh, Scotland, † June 22, 1912 in Auckland, New Zealand) was Scottish- New Zealand doctor, merchant, entrepreneur, politician, mayor of Auckland and co-founder the Auckland Savings Bank. He was regarded as an entrepreneur as one of the pioneers in the economic development of Auckland since the city's founding.

Descent

John Logan Campbell was born on 3 November 1817 in Edinburgh, the third and only surviving son of Mr and Mrs Dr. John Campbell of Kilbryde and Catherine Logan of Knockshinnoch, Ayrshire. His eldest brothers died in 1813 and 1819. In the series of his six siblings ( 2 brothers and 4 sisters ), he was the fourth -born. His father was a surgeon, son of a knight, and grandson of Squire Campbell family of Aberuchill and Kilbryde, which in turn descended from the Campbells of Argyll and over three centuries existed. John Logan Campbell's ancestors lived in Perthshire and after Sir Colin Campbell, Baronet of Aberuchill and great-great- grandfather of John Logan Campbell acquired the building, from 1669, in Kilbryde Castle.

Life and work

Training

Campbell's father practiced in Edinburgh and later became president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. With the reputation of his father, Logan grew, as he was called by his friends, in a wealthy house, and it was clear that he would after completing the Royal High School in 1834, visit the Medical School of the University of Edinburgh. He graduated with a doctorate in the summer of 1839 on, but during the studies it was clear that he did not want to go his father's path. A short detour to the East India Company in 1837 to India, confirmed him in this step.

Of which from 1836 onwards propagating in Scotland "departure fever ", especially in the direction of New South Wales, Campbell also became infected. He sat down opposite his father's desire to work as a physician, by and planned by the wool boom of this time to breed sheep inspired in Australia. Immediately after completing his studies, so he spent three months training in a carpenter to learn the necessary hand tools in woodworking as a farmer. The exit opportunity came sooner than he had expected.

Australia

As ship Doctor Campbell left the barque Palmyra on July 3, 1839 Scotland; with the luggage, £ 500 for him and 500 pounds, he should invest for his father profitably overseas. From Greenock over Sydney it was him after arriving in New South Wales to Bathurst and in the Lachlan District of the Central West region of New South Wales. He thought it was only a few months in the colony from, because he disliked the existing former convicts from society.

New Zealand

In March 1840 Campbell left Australia to Wellington. Once there, he embarked a few weeks later again, in order to meet William Brown, a lawyer from Dundee, with whom he had befriended on the journey from Adelaide to Sydney a few months earlier, near Whanganui Iceland on the Hauraki Gulf can. They were partners and explored the possibilities in the area to build a business.

On May 22, 1840 they bought the island Motukorea, close access to the Waitemata Harbour, now called Brown's Iceland. On August 13 of the year they moved to the island and started with farm economy. Three months after the founding of the city of Auckland, which took place on 18 September 1840 from Campbell Brown sat with a tent and a few stores in the Commercial Bay in the south shore area of the Waitemata Harbour and himself followed two months later. With its founding Brown & Campbell she got into the trading business and Campbell described the situation on the ground in a letter he sent home, with the sentence: ". Entire The whole object and for everyone here is making money" ( The only reason for everyone here is to make money. )

On April 19, 1841 bought additional land and built the Acacia Cottage, which can still be seen in the Cornwall Park today. 1843 they built a walking out over two floors built of stone department store and took the businessmen William Gibson and Robert Mitchell and her company with the business.

As 1844 Brown and his wife had to go to England for medical reasons, Campbell and Brown Bark bought one and took the opportunity to ship goods from New Zealand to England and sell there. The Bolina was laden with kauri timber, manganese, copper and others, adopted on 20 December 1844 gun salute and went their journey as the first cargo transportation to the home country of New Zealand Great Britain in history. While Brown's three -year absence, Campbell developed the business to continue successfully, in 1846 President of the Mechanics' Institute, the end of 1846 was the most influential founders of the Auckland Savings Bank, and in 1847 the director of the Union Bank of Australia branch in Auckland.

In June 1848 Campbell visited his home in Scotland, then toured for 15 months parts of the European continent with Greece and Turkey, followed by India and Asia, in 1850 came back a year later traveled to California and came back to Auckland on 22 August 1851.

In August 1851 Brown and Campbell acquired the Pah Farm, about two miles from Mount Prospect, a farm with about 1,000 acres of land to Maungakiekie around. They acquired Mount Prospect in September 1853, and later named the 182 meter high ancient extinct volcano in One Tree Hill has to offer. Brown and Campbell speculated at this time with the purchase of cattle in Australia to be able to sell them in New Zealand.

In subsequent years, Campbell got more and more interested in politics, settled in November 1855 to choose Superintendent of Provincial Council of Auckland, a post he held until September 1856. Around the same time, from October 1855 to November 1856 he took over the seat in the House of Representatives for the City of Auckland, and was from June to November 1856 Minister in the first stable government of the colony under Edward Stafford.

In May 1855 Campbell Brown and dissolved their partnership with Gibson and Mitchell, 1856 gave the direct conduct of their affairs and translated from JI Montefiore as a manager in her company. Brown left New Zealand for England and Campbell followed on November 20, 1856 Sri Lanka. On the way he met Emma Wilson, daughter of John Cracroft Wilson, and after a few months in Europe, he returned to India, to marry her on 25 February 1858. The marriage produced four children.

With an interruption between the years 1860-1861, in which he had to order by the mismanagement of his manager, the company's businesses in Auckland, Campbell was absent with his family until 1871 New Zealand, traveled with the family and its servants in Italy, Switzerland, France and Great Britain around.

1873, Campbell broke away from his partner Brown, and paid it off. In 1877 he founded the Free School of Art, which he oversaw until 1889. In addition, he was Chairman of the Education Board. In May 1897 Campbell was already active in the brewery business, he merged his company with the Ehrenfried Brothers Browery by Louis Ehrenfried for Campbell & Ehrenfried Co. Ltd., emerged from the later Lion Nathan.

For announced royal visit of George Frederick Ernest Albert of Saxe- Coburg and Gotha, at the time still Duke of Cornwall and Duke of York, was looking for a worthy representative of the colony, to be able to receive the Duke and his wife, accordingly. As a value estimated Auckland's citizens the choice fell on Campbell, who was elected in 1901 for the visit to the mayor of Auckland. He to the role, but she kept only for the three months of the visit. In honor of the guests, he donated in the same year the Cornwall Park to the citizens of Auckland. On the day of the planned coronation of Edward VII, June 26, 1902 Campbell was awarded the Knight Bachelor.

John Logan Campbell died after a short illness on 22 June 1912 in Auckland and was subsequently buried on June 25, 1912 on the mountaintop from One Tree Hill.

Works

• John Logan Campbell: Poenamo - Sketches of the early days in New Zealand. Romance and reality of Antipodean life in the infancy of a new colony .. Whitcombe and Tombs Limited, Auckland, 1952 ( with an introduction by Joan Stevens, First edition: published by anonymous Ed.: Williams and Norgate, London, 1881).