{{Short description|New Zealand businessman and politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2014}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=August 2014}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Edward Cargill | honorific_suffix = | image = Edward Bowes Cargill.jpg | alt = | caption = Portrait of Edward Cargill | birth_date = 9 October 1823<!-- {{birth date|1784|08|27|df=yes}} --> | birth_place = [[Edinburgh]], Scotland | death_date = {{death date and age|1903|08|9|1823|10|9|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Dunedin]], New Zealand | spouse = {{marriage|Dorothy Nesham|1854|1889|end=d.}} | children = 5 | relations = {{ubl|[[William Cargill (New Zealand politician)|William Cargill]] (father)|[[John Cargill (politician)|John Cargill]] (brother)|[[Isabel Cargill]] (daughter)|[[Francis Petre]] (son-in-law)}} | constituency_MP4 = [[Bruce (New Zealand electorate)|Bruce]] | parliament4 = New Zealand | term_start4 = 31 July [[1862 Bruce by-election|1862]] | term_end4 = 21 June 1865 | predecessor4 = [[Charles Kettle]] | successor4 = [[James Macandrew]] | order5 = 23rd | office5 = Mayor of Dunedin | term_start5 = 1897 | term_end5 = 1898 | predecessor5 = [[Hugh Gourley]] | successor5 = [[William Swan (mayor)|William Swan]] | profession = businessman, politician }} '''Edward Bowes Cargill''' (9 October 1823 – 9 August 1903) was a 19th-century businessman and [[Member of parliament|Member of Parliament]] in [[Dunedin]], [[Otago]], New Zealand. He was the [[Mayor of Dunedin]] from 1897 to 1898.
==Early life== Cargill was born in [[Edinburgh]], Scotland, in 1823; he was the seventh son of [[William Cargill (New Zealand politician)|William Cargill]], one of [[Otago]]'s most prominent settlers.{{sfn|Scholefield|1940|p=137}} [[John Cargill (politician)|John Cargill]] was an elder brother.<ref name="John Cargill obituary">{{cite news |title=Death of Mr John Cargill |url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=OW18980217.2.89 |access-date=7 October 2010 |work=[[Otago Witness]] |date=17 February 1898 |issue=2294 |page=23}}</ref> Edward Cargill was educated in Edinburgh and, after the family moved to England, at [[Norwich School|Norwich Grammar School]] and at Perone's School. He went to sea from age 14 and visited Australia and the [[Far East]]. In 1844, he settled in [[Ceylon]] and worked for the [[Oriental Bank Corporation|Bank of Western India]]. He was then a merchant in Ceylon and was in various partnerships.{{sfn|Scholefield|1940|p=137}} Cargill then went to [[Melbourne]] in Australia, where he stayed from 1855 to 1857 an importer of Eastern goods.
==Life in New Zealand== Cargill moved to [[Dunedin]] in New Zealand - his father had previously moved there in 1847. He was initially in a partnership with [[Johnny Jones (pioneer)|Johnny Jones]] as a merchant and ship owner. They dissolved their partnership in 1861 and he partnered with his brother John. Their business prospered due to the [[Otago gold rush]], but their premises burned down twice (in late 1861 and in early 1864). The business expanded and many ships were bought, but Cargill made significant losses during the recession in the 1880s, which caused him to retire from business in 1889.{{sfn|Scholefield|1940|p=137}}
==Political career== {{NZ parlbox header|nolist=true|align=left}} {{NZ parlbox |start = [[1862 Bruce by-election|1862]] |end = 1865 |term = 3rd |electorate = {{NZ electorate link|Bruce}} |party = Independent politician }} {{End}} Cargill represented the [[Bruce (New Zealand electorate)|Bruce]] electorate from [[1862 Bruce by-election|1862]] to 1865, when he resigned.{{sfn|Wilson|1985|p=188}} He represented the Western electorate on the [[Otago Provincial Council]] (24 February 1862 – 7 February 1862), and represented the Town of Dunedin electorate for two terms (22 May 1863 – 10 January 1867; 13 March 1871 – 13 March 1873).{{sfn|Scholefield|1950|p=220}} He was twice on the Executive Council of [[Otago Province]] and served as Provincial Secretary (19 August 1863 – 15 September 1863; 13 April 1871 – 2 June 1871).{{sfn|Scholefield|1950|p=217}}<ref name="NZETC Edward Cargill">{{cite book |title=The Cyclopedia of New Zealand : Otago & Southland Provincial Districts |year=1905 |url=http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc04Cycl-t1-body1-d2-d9-d24.html |publisher=[[The Cyclopedia of New Zealand]] |author=Cyclopedia Company Limited |access-date= 17 November 2015 |location=Christchurch |chapter=Mr. Edward Bowes Cargill, J. P.}}</ref> He was on the [[University of Otago]] board. He contested the {{NZ election link|1887}} in the [[Dunedin Central]] electorate,<ref name="Dunedin Central nomination, 1887">{{cite news |title=The General Elections: City Nominations |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=ODT18870921.2.15 |access-date=9 June 2012|work=[[Otago Daily Times]] |date=21 September 1887 |issue=7982 |page=2}}</ref> but was beaten by [[Frederick Fitchett]].<ref name="General Election, 1887">{{cite web |title=The General Election, 1887 |url= https://atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs?a=d&cl=search&d=AJHR1887-II.2.1.9.13 |publisher=National Library |access-date=25 February 2012 |page=3 |year=1887}}</ref>
He was the [[Mayor of Dunedin]] from 1897 to 1898, when the 50th anniversary of the founding of the province of Otago was celebrated.<ref>{{cite news|title=Mayors of Dunedin |url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=OW18980317.1.121 |access-date=6 October 2010 |work=[[Otago Witness]] |date=17 March 1898|issue=2298 |page=62}}</ref>
==Home and family== [[File:Castle03.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Cargill's Castle]] in 2009]] In 1854, Cargill married Dorothy Nesham,{{sfn|Scholefield|1940|p=138}} and the couple went on to have five daughters.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT19030810.2.52 |title=Death of Mr E. B. Cargill |date=10 August 1903 |work=[[Otago Daily Times]] |issue=12737 |page=6 |access-date=13 February 2023}}</ref> Dorothy Cargill died in 1889.{{sfn|Scholefield|1940|p=138}}
Cargill had built as his home the distinctive [[Cargill's Castle]] in Dunedin, known originally as "The Cliffs". Several kilometres south of the castle is [[Tunnel Beach]], so named because this quiet beach is only accessible through a steeply sloping tunnel cut into the {{convert|60|m}} high cliffs by the Cargill family. The house was designed by [[Francis Petre]], at the time a young architect; it is also very likely that Petre was the supervisor of the construction of the tunnel. While designing the house, Petre fell in love with Cargill's daughter Margaret. After a difficult courtship (due to Petre's staunch [[Catholicism]] and the Cargill family's equally staunch [[Presbyterianism]]) the couple were eventually permitted to marry, the wedding taking place in the villa's principal salon on 1 March 1881.<ref>{{cite news |title=Marriage |url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=ESD18810302.2.5 |access-date=16 November 2015 |work=[[Evening Star (Dunedin)|Evening Star]] |issue=5610 |date=2 March 1881 |page=2}}</ref><ref>{{DNZB|Lochhead|Ian J.|2p13|Petre, Francis William|28 October 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Historical Significance of Cargill's Castle|url=http://www.cargillscastle.co.nz/history|publisher=The Cargill's Castle Trust|access-date=16 November 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117033023/http://www.cargillscastle.co.nz/history|archive-date=17 November 2015|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
Cargill's daughter [[Isabel Cargill]] travelled to Italy with Ann Marie Babington and in 1893 they opened [[Babington's tea room]] on the Spanish Steps in Rome which still today belongs to her descendants.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Hutching |first1=Sam |last2=Taonga |first2=New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu |title=Babington's Tea Rooms, Rome |url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/3948/babingtons-tea-rooms-rome |access-date=2023-01-21 |website=teara.govt.nz |language=en}}</ref>
Cargill died on 9 August 1903.{{sfn|Scholefield|1940|p=138}} He was buried at [[Dunedin Southern Cemetery]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Cemeteries search |url=https://www.dunedin.govt.nz/services/cemeteries/cemeteries-search?recordid=105399&type=Burial |publisher=[[Dunedin City Council]] |access-date=11 September 2022}}</ref>
==Notes== {{Reflist}}
==References== {{Commons category|Edward Cargill}} *{{cite book | editor-last = Scholefield | editor-first = Guy | editor-link = Guy Scholefield | title = A Dictionary of New Zealand Biography : A–L | volume = I | year = 1940 | publisher = [[Department of Internal Affairs (New Zealand)|Department of Internal Affairs]] | location = Wellington | url = https://nzhistory.govt.nz/sites/default/files/documents/dnzb-1940/scholefield-dnzb-v1.pdf | access-date = 7 November 2015}} *{{cite book |authorlink = Guy Scholefield | last = Scholefield | first= Guy | title = New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1949 | edition = 3rd | orig-year=First published in 1913 | year = 1950 |publisher = Govt. Printer |location = Wellington}} *{{cite book |last= Wilson |first= Jim | author-link=Jim Wilson (librarian) |title= New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 |edition= 4th |orig-year=First published in 1913 |year= 1985 |publisher=V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |oclc=154283103}}
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