Archibald Scott Cleghorn

The Honourable
Archibald Scott Cleghorn
Governor of Oahu
In office
November 11, 1891 – February 28, 1893
Monarch Liliʻuokalani
Preceded by John Owen Dominis
Succeeded by Office abolished
Personal details
Born (1835-11-15)November 15, 1835
Edinburgh, Scotland
Died November 1, 1910(1910-11-01) (aged 74)
Honolulu, State of Hawaii
Resting place Royal Mausoleum of Hawaii
Nationality Kingdom of Hawaii
Spouse(s) Princess Miriam K. Likelike
Children Rose, Helen, and Annie; Princess Victoria Kaʻiulani; and T. A. K.
Parents Thomas Cleghorn
Janet Nisbet
Residence ʻĀinahau
Occupation Businessman, Politician
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Archibald Scott Cleghorn (November 15, 1835 – November 1, 1910) was a Scottish businessman who married into the royal family of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

Biography

He was born on November 15, 1835 in Edinburgh, Scotland, to Thomas Cleghorn and wife, Janet Nisbet. In 1851, at the age of 16, Cleghorn traveled with his parents to Honolulu, where his father established a dry goods store. His father died within the year, and his mother left for New Zealand, but Archibald remained in Hawaii and continued running the store. His business prospered and he expanded to other islands.[1] With a Hawaiian woman, Elizabeth Lapeka Pauahi Grimes, Cleghorn had three daughters: Rose Kaipuala Cleghorn (1859–1911), who married James William Robertson, Helen Maniʻiailehua Cleghorn (1863–1927), who married James Harbottle Boyd, Annie Pauai Cleghorn (1867–1897), who married James Hay Wodehouse.[2][3] Cleghorn and Lapeka later separated.[4] He also had a son named Thomas Alexander Kaulaʻahi Cleghorn (1899–1984) by another Hawaiian woman Annie Ana Makanui.[5][6]

Cleghorn became a citizen of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1870.[7] He married Princess Miriam K. Likelike, sister of David Kalākaua, on September 22, 1870 at Washington Place.[8] In 1874 Kalākaua became King, and Cleghorn's daughter Princess Victoria Kaiʻulani was the heir to the throne of the House of Kalākaua. In 1877, Cleghorn and Princess Likelike arranged to donate the land surrounding the monument to Captain James Cook on Kealakekua Bay marking the site of his death, in trust to the government of the United Kingdom.[9]

Cleghorn served in the House of Nobles from 1873 to 1888, and the Privy Council from 1873 to 1891. He acted as the Royal Governor of Oʻahu in July 1887, and was appointed to succeed Prince Consort John Owen Dominis upon his death in November 1891, until February 28, 1893. He was the president of the Kapiʻolani Park Association since 1888, and first parks commissioner for the City & County of Honolulu in 1900. He served as a trustee of The Queen's Medical Center from 1905 to 1909.[10] He died of a heart attack on November 1, 1910 at the ʻĀinahau royal estate. He was buried in the Kalākaua Crypt of the Royal Mausoleum of Hawaii.

His downtown Honolulu estate became the home of The Pacific Club in 1926.[11]

Cleghorn and his daughter Kaʻiulani at the ʻĀinahau estate, 1887.

References

  1. ↑ Maxine Mrantz (1980). Hawaii's Tragic Princess: Kaiulani, the girl who never got to rule. Aloha Graphics and Sales. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-941351-04-1.
  2. ↑ Ellen Emerson White (2001). Kaʻiulani: the people's princess. Scholastic. p. 226. ISBN 978-0-439-12909-1.
  3. ↑ Jennifer Fahrni. "Princess Kaiulani Her Life and Times: A Biography". The Kaʻiulani Project. Archived from the original on 15 January 2010. Retrieved 2010-01-17.
  4. ↑ "Information on Elizabeth Lepeka Kahalaunani Cleghorn". Maoliworld. Retrieved 2011-04-09.
  5. ↑ Kristin Zambucka (1976). Princess Kaiulani: The Las Hope of Hawaii's Monarchy. Honolulu: Mana Publishing Company. p. 155. ISBN 978-1-56647-710-9.
  6. ↑ http://hdl.handle.net/10524/48595
  7. ↑ "Cleghorn, Archibald S. immigration record". digital archives. state of Hawaii. Retrieved 2009-10-23.
  8. ↑ Royal Ark
  9. ↑ Thomas George Thrum, ed. (1912), "Cook's Monument at Kealakekua", Hawaiian Almanac and Annual, p. 69
  10. ↑ "Cleghorn, Archibald Scott". digital archives. state of Hawaii. Retrieved 2009-10-23.
  11. ↑ "The Pacific Club: Private Business & Social Club in Honolulu, Hawaii". official web site. Archived from the original on 25 August 2010. Retrieved July 30, 2010.

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Government offices
Preceded by
John Owen Dominis		 Royal Governor of Oʻahu
1891–1893 		Succeeded by
Joseph J. Fern
as Mayor of Honolulu
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