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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Mr. Charles Robert Chapman

Mr. Charles Robert Chapman , who was Mayor of the city of Dunedin for the year 1891–2, is the only surviving son of the late Mr. Robert Chapman, one of the pioneer colonists of Otago. He was born in 1847, in Edinburgh, and accompanied his parents to the Colony in the ship “Blundell,” which arrived in Port Chalmers on the 21st of September, 1848. He was educated at the old school that was originally the first church in Dunedin, and which was built on the section where the warehouse of Messrs Sargood. Son and Ewen, and the office of the Standard Insurance Company now stand. He subsequently studied at the Dunedin high school, of which he was one of the first scholars. Mr. Chapman first contested the mayoralty of the city of Dunedin in November, 1888, when he was defeated by Mr. H. Gourley by 189 votes. In December, 1890, he was a candidate for the city council for Bell ward, when he was returned at the head of the poll, and was elected Mayor in the ensuing year. Mr. Chapman was married in Adelaide in 1885. He is elsewhere referred to as a barrister and solicitor.