Archibald Scott Cleghorn
Archibald Scott Cleghorn | |
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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 | Edinburgh, Scotland | November 15, 1835
Died | November 1, 1910 Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii | (aged 74)
Resting place | Royal Mausoleum of Hawaii |
Nationality | Kingdom of Hawaii |
Spouse | Princess Miriam K. Likelike |
Children | Rose, Helen, and Annie; Princess Victoria Kaʻiulani; and T. A. K. |
Parent(s) | 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, the second of two sons. In 1841 Thomas was Superintendent of the Government Domain (Auckland Domain) in Auckland, New Zealand. Janet Cleghorn died in Auckland in 1845. In 1851, at the age of 16, Archie Cleghorn traveled with his father to Honolulu, where his father established a dry goods store. His father died within the year, but Archibald remained in Hawaii and continued running the store. His business prospered and he expanded to other islands.[1]
Cleghorn became a citizen of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1870.[2] He married Princess Miriam K. Likelike who was 19 years old, sister of David Kalākaua, on September 22, 1870 at Washington Place.[citation needed] 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.[3]
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.[4] 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.[5]
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Children
Besides his daughter Kaʻiulani, Cleghorn had a number of children out of wedlock. With a Hawaiian woman, Elizabeth Lapeka Pauahi Grimes, Cleghorn had three daughters:[6][7] Cleghorn and Lapeka later separated.[8]
- Rose Kaipuala Cleghorn (1859 – February 27, 1911), married James William Robertson
- Helen Maniʻiailehua Cleghorn (December 17, 1863 – August 9, 1927), married James Harbottle Boyd
- Annie Pauahi Cleghorn (July 28, 1868 – March 6, 1897), married James Hay Wodehouse, Jr.
With another Hawaiian woman Annie Ana Makanui:
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Cleghorn, Archibald S. immigration record". digital archives. state of Hawaii. Retrieved October 23, 2009.
- ^ Thomas George Thrum, ed. (1912), "Cook's Monument at Kealakekua", Hawaiian Almanac and Annual, p. 69, archived from the original on June 10, 2016, retrieved October 10, 2016
- ^ "Cleghorn, Archibald Scott". digital archives. state of Hawaii. Archived from the original on July 21, 2011. Retrieved October 23, 2009.
- ^ "The Pacific Club: Private Business & Social Club in Honolulu, Hawaii". official web site. Archived from the original on November 19, 2010. Retrieved July 30, 2010.
- ^ Ellen Emerson White (2001). Kaʻiulani: the people's princess. Scholastic. p. 226. ISBN 978-0-439-12909-1. Archived from the original on December 24, 2016. Retrieved October 10, 2016.
- ^ Jennifer Fahrni. "Princess Kaiulani Her Life and Times: A Biography". The Kaʻiulani Project. Archived from the original on January 15, 2010. Retrieved January 17, 2010.
- ^ "Information on Elizabeth Lepeka Kahalaunani Cleghorn". Maoliworld. Archived from the original on August 20, 2011. Retrieved April 9, 2011.
- ^ Kristin Zambucka (1976). Princess Kaiulani: The Last Hope of Hawaii's Monarchy. Honolulu: Mana Publishing Company. p. 155. ISBN 978-1-56647-710-9.
- ^ Cleghorn, Thomas A. K.; Cleghorn, Nellie Yarnell Maxwell; Argow, Dorothy; Allen, Katherine B. (1979). "Thomas Alexander Kaulaahi Cleghorn". The Watumull Foundation, Oral History Project. Honolulu: The Watumull Foundation, Oral History Project: 1–82. hdl:10524/48595. OCLC 10006035.
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- 1835 births
- 1910 deaths
- Royalty of the Kingdom of Hawaii
- Governors of Oahu
- Kingdom of Hawaii politicians
- Members of the Kingdom of Hawaii Privy Council
- Members of the Kingdom of Hawaii House of Nobles
- Burials at the Royal Mausoleum of Hawaii
- Recipients of the Royal Order of Kamehameha I
- Recipients of the Royal Order of Kalākaua
- Recipients of the Royal Order of the Crown of Hawaii
- People from Edinburgh
- 19th-century American politicians
- British expatriates in the Kingdom of Hawaii