Arthur Guyon Purchas was a clergyman, missionary, surgeon, musician, engineer, inventor, pioneer, geologist and botanist born at St. Arvans in the Wye Valley, Monmouthshire, Wales, who lived most of his life in Auckland, New Zealand. He was the father of fourteen children and an important figure during British colonisation of New Zealand, described as an 'amazingly versatile colonist'.
Arthur Purchas in 1895
444-472 Karangahape Road, Auckland
Purchas’ headstone at Purewa Cemetery.
A remnant of the predominantly quarried Purchas Hill, looking over College Road, with Mount Wellington in the background.
Epsom is a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. It is located in the centre of the Auckland isthmus between Mount Eden and Greenlane, south of Newmarket, and 5 km (3.1 mi) south of the Auckland City Centre.
Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill, Cornwall Park, Alexandra Park and Greenlane Clinical Centre and suburban Epsom houses seen from Maungawhau / Mount Eden
Epsom is a valley located between four volcanic hills on the Auckland isthmus
The Almorah Rock Forest is a rare biome in the Auckland Region, formed in low-soil areas on the volcanic rock deposits of Maungawhau / Mount Eden. Currently only 25 hectares (62 acres) of rock forest remain
Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill was a major settlement and terraced pā site, important to the Waiohua union of Tāmaki Māori in the 17th and 18th centuries
