Sir Frank Crossley Mappin, 6th Baronet (15 August 1884 – 25 January 1975) was a New Zealand orchardist, horticulturist and philanthropist. He was born in

Scampton Scampton is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. The population of the civil parish including Brampton and Broadholme at the 2011 census was 1,358. It is situated north of Lincoln, south-east of Ga ...

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, England on 15 August 1884. He and his wife donated their Auckland home, which they had called Birchlands, to the New Zealand government to be used as

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. Businessman Sir Rob Fenwick was his grandson.

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1884 births 1975 deaths New Zealand horticulturists New Zealand philanthropists English emigrants to New Zealand New Zealand orchardists People from Scampton 20th-century philanthropists Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom {{NewZealand-bio-stub