Young Logan Campbell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stone, R. C. J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Auckland (N.Z.)--Biography.

Campbell, John Logan, -- 1817-1912.

Local Subjects:

Auckland (N.Z.)--Biography.

Campbell, John Logan, -- 1817-1912.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 p.)

Place of Publication:

Auckland : Auckland University Press, 2014.

Summary:

Sir John Logan Campbell is known as the Father of Auckland; he is synonymous with that city. As this first volume of his biography shows, however, he was not particularly enamoured of a pioneering life or of the settlement in which he led it. His purpose in coming to New Zealand and remaining here was to make enough money to live the life of a leisured gentleman in Europe. By the end of this book, he seemed to have achieved his goal. Campbell left, probably, a more comprehensive set of papers than any other early settler. From them, R. C. J. Stone has told a story which not only reveals the complexities of the man himself, but moves further, to the patrician Scottish background, to his fellow settlers in Auckland especially his energetic partner William Brown, to the details of the business acumen by which they acquired their premier position among the merchants of Auckland, and to the turmoil of colonial politics.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction; ONE: Beginnings in Scotland; TWO: Voyage to New Zealand; THREE: The Excursion to Te Tamaki; FOUR: On the Hauraki Shore; FIVE: Pioneer Pakehas on Motukorea; SIX: Brown & Campbell in Early Auckland, 1841-2; SEVEN: Survival of the Fittest, 1842-4; EIGHT: 'Doing a Large and Lucrative Business', 1845-8; NINE: 'Innocent Abroad'; TEN: Present Adjustments and Future Plans, 1849-51; ELEVEN: 'Doing an Excellent Business'; TWELVE: 'An Independence Secured . . . .'; THIRTEEN: 'The Thrice-disgusting Pollution of Auckland Polities'

FOURTEEN: A Beginning and an End, 1856-8APPENDIX; A: Deed of Sale for Motukorea; B: Political Parody by Logan Campbell; C: Campbell's Editing of his Earlier Correspondence; D: A Farmer's Possessions, 1853; References; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781775586975

1775586979

OCLC:

865330736