Symonds Street Cemetery
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Symonds Street Cemetery is a historic cemetery and park in central Auckland, New Zealand. It is in 5.8 hectares of deciduous forest on the western slope of Grafton Gully, by the corner of Symonds Stre
Symonds Street Cemetery Auckland
Symonds Street Cemetery in 1863, with Maungawhau / Mount Eden in the background
Symonds Street Cemetery Auckland NZ
William Hobson
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Captain William Hobson was a Royal Navy officer and colonial administrator who served as the first governor of New Zealand from 1841 to 1842. He was a co-author of the Treaty of Waitangi which he, as
Symonds Street Cemetery
…Anglican section, and 2100 graves under 400 headstones were found in the Catholic section. Many of Auckland's early colonists are buried here, including William Hobson, the first Governor of New Zealand and co-author of the Treaty of Waitangi. The New Zealand Herald columnist Brian Rudman has repeatedly criticised the…
Retro Pattern Crown: Tāmati Wāka Nene shaking hands with Hobson at Waitangi on 6 February 1840
Grave of Captain William Hobson
1839 document appointing Hobson as lieutenant-governor of New Zealand.