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Abraham Boardman
(1824 ? 21 May 1897) was elected
Mayor of Auckland
in 1896, and took office on 16 December in that year. He, however, resigned shortly afterwards on account of ill-health, and died on 21 May 1897, aged seventy-three.
[1]
Boardman was born near
Bolton
,
Lancashire
, England, and after being headmaster in an important church school, and also in mercantile life in
Liverpool
and
London
, he emigrated to the colonies, and arrived in
Auckland
on 24 January 1864.
He obtained a position in the office of the Superintendent of the Province, and was afterwards Curator of Intestate Estates under the General Government. Subsequently, Boardman was connected extensively with mining companies, and was the first general manager of the
South British Insurance Company
.
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