John Plimmer

John Plimmer

John Plimmer (1812 – 1905) has been called the "Father of Wellington."

He was a member of the Wellington Provincial Council from 1856 to 1857, the first Wellington Town Board (1863) and was on the Wellington City Council from 1870 to 1871.

His principal public service was the organization of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company between 1880 and 1886. The township (now a suburb) of Plimmerton on the main railway north was named after him.

He arrived in Wellington from Shropshire, England on the ship "Gertrude" in 1841.

There is a statue of him at the bottom of Plimmer Steps off Lambton Quay, Wellington.

External links

* [http://www.inconstant.wellington.net.nz/plimmer.htm Plimmer's Ark webpage, with portrait]
* [http://www.museumofwellington.co.nz/inconstant/Content/JohnPlimmer.html Museum of Wellington]
* [http://www.museumofwellington.co.nz/fact_sheets/john_plimmer.pdf Fact Sheet from Museum]
* [http://www.wellington.govt.nz/picturegallery/display-image.php?g=6&i=25 Sculpture of John Plimmer, picture]
* [http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/WarEarl-fig-WarEarl292a.html Photo of John Plimmer's residence]
* [http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/WarEarl-fig-WarEarl247c.html Picture of Plimmer's Ark]
* [http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/WarEarl-fig-WarEarl247b.html Picture of Lambton Quay Reclamation 1860s showing Plimmer's workshop]

References

"No Mean City" by Stuart Perry (1969, Wellington City Council) includes a paragraph and a portrait of him (page 30).


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