John Campbell

In the winter of 1840, recent immigrant John Logan Campbell and his business partner William Brown settled on an island at the mouth of the Waitematā Harbour, confident that the Tāmaki Peninsula would soon house the colony’s capital.

By the time the capital shifted south the following year, Campbell was poised to make a tremendous profit from – and contribution to – the growth of the town. He became known as the Father of Auckland.

'John Logan Campbell', URL: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/people/logan-campbell, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 13-Jul-2020