LORD AUCKLAND.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 91, 18 April 1941, Page 8

LORD AUCKLAND.

KILLED IN BLITZ.

ASSOCIATION WITH CITY

Lord Auckland, who is reported by cable to have been killed in vesterda \ V

iiir raid on London, was invited to \i-it New Zealand for the Centennial it'lebrations la.-t year, Init was unalilc to make tin- voyage. In a letter to tho Mayor. Sir Kruesl Davis, lie sent a photograph of himself at Sir Ernest's reqiie-t and lalcr wrote saying tliat 111 , would conn , to Auckland when tin , war

Lord Auckland wa* a naval an-liiteet by profe--ion. and war- connected with many engineering iindert ak i on the Continent. He \vn» tlie .-ixth holder of the barony. The si-coiid baron, after whom the city of Auckland was named by Captain William Hobson on its foundation in IS4O as the capital of Xew Zealand, was made an earl for his services as Viceroy of India, but as he died unmarried the earldom became extinct.

A line portrait of the earl, by Koohard. was presented to the city of Auckland by the late Lord Aiieklaiid. This painting lianas on the wall of the council chamber to the right of the Mavoral chair.

The lirst Karl of Auckland was the •second son of the first Baron Auckland, succeeding u> the title in ISI4. He became president of the Hoard of Trade in Lord C rev's llefnrni Mini-try in 1K:?O. and was appointed Kiivt Lord of the Admiralty by Lord Melbourne in 1534. In that rapacity he earned tlie platitude of Captain Ifobson by appointing him to the eoniniaiid ,if 11.M.5. Hat t lesnake. For the previous six years Hobson had been unable to obtain naval employment, although his career in the "West Indies and elsewhere had been hijrhly creditable. In the Rattlesnake he visited Xow Zealand, and as a result was selected in lS3f) to establish Uriti-h sovereignty and to servo as |jr«t I.ieiifenant-(.'o\ernor of (| lo ~,.„■ ~n l onv 111 IS-tO. when llob<on ,1,. t .:,1,.,l to |. rPa t,.' a new capital on the Waitemata ITarIx'lir. i.ord Auckland was at the height of his fame as Viceroy of India, to which office ho had been appointed in lsSTi. For his work there in that position ho was created Earl of Auckland. It w littintherefore, that Hobson sliould have named the new city after his distinguished benefactor." He died in 1S4!) The late Lord Auckland was born in IS!)."i. He married in ]<)]7 Susan Hartridsre of .Wksonvillo. Florida There is one daughter of the inarriape. which was dissolved in 102.".. Tn io:?!> Lord Auckland married Mi** Constance Caroline Hart, of San Francisco. A graduate of the Camborne S.-hool of Minos. Auckland was a flying instructor during the last war. e