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 ...
,
Lincolnshire
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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
Government House
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Businessman
Sir Rob Fenwick was his grandson.
Arms
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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
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