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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Lennox, James Marshall

Lennox, James Marshall, Stock and Share Broker, National Insurance Buildings, Queen Street, Auckland. Telephone 702. Bankers, Bank of New Zealand. Mr. Lennox was born in Stirlingshire, Scotland, in 1842, and was educated in Leeds, Yorkshire. He came to Auckland in 1863 by the ship “Owen Glendower,” and was for three years connected with journalism in the “New Zealander” and the “Herald” offices. In 1866 he established himself in his present business. He has been for more than thirty years in active commercial life, and has been more or less prosperous throughout it all. Mr. Lennox has been six times chairman of the Auckland
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Stock Exchange, and has been connected with Auckland mining from its infancy. He was chairman of directors of about the first company formed; namely, the Karaka Goldmining Company, and was chairman of the Cale-donian, Hazelbank, and many other important and well-remembered companies. The passing of the Act prohibiting stockbrokers from sitting as directors of mining companies necessitated Mr. Lennox's retirement from these and similar positions. In the old military days Mr. Lennox went with the volun-teers to the front. He was for seven years a city councillor and was for a similar period a member of the Education Board and the Board of Governors of the Auckland College and Grammar School. He was also chairman of Trustees of the Remuera highway district, and of the Remuera school committee, and a member of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, trustee of the Auckland Savings Bank, Commissioner of Education, Superintendent of St. Luke's Sunday School, Remuera, clerk of the session for fourteen or fifteen years, first president and then vice-president of the Auckland Chess Club. As an Oddfellows, he is attached to the Fountain of Friendship Lodge. Mr. Lennox was married in 1872 to a daughter of the late Mr. W. Scott, of Canada, who for many years was a member of the Canadian Parliament.