John Plimmer

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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.

[edit] External links

• Plimmer's Ark webpage, with portrait
• Museum of Wellington
• Sculpture of John Plimmer, picture

[edit] References

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