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Frederic Alonzo Carrington (Oct 1807 – 15 July 1901) was a 19th-century New Zealand politician and surveyor. He is regarded as the Father of New Plymouth.
Carrington was born in 
He was a member of the Harbour Board (now Port Taranaki), and an advocate of an adequate harbour for New Plymouth. In 1881, Carrington laid the first stone for the main breakwater at the port, using a trowel made from Taranaki ironsand.
Carrington died in New Plymouth and is buried in the family grave in Te Henui Cemetery.
Carrington Street, a New Plymouth arterial route, and its extension Carrington Road, which winds between the Pouakai and Kaitake ranges, are named for him. He is regarded as the father of New Plymouth.
Chelmsford
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, Essex, England, in 1807, the son of Captain William Carrington.
He was 15 years in the Ordnance Survey Department. Then he was appointed by the New Zealand Company
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as Chief Surveyor to the Plymouth Company and surveyed the new settlement of New Plymouth. He arrived in Wellington
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with his family in the ship ''London
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'' in December 1840 as a cabin passenger.
In 1844, he returned to England, and undertook surveying for parliamentary committees in England and Scotland. In 1851, he displayed iron made from Taranaki iron sand at The Great Exhibition
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, London. From 1851 to 1856 he investigated business proposals in California and other parts of America, Paris and Belgium.
He left for New Zealand with his family in January 1857 and in 1862 was made Government Engineering Surveyor for Taranaki. He finally obtained a grant of land in 1877.
He was Superintendent
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of Taranaki Province ''For the current top-level subdivision of Taranaki in New Zealand, see Taranaki region''
The Taranaki Province was a province of New Zealand from 1853 until the abolition of provincial government in 1876. Initially known as New Plymouth Province, ...
from 1869 to 1876 (when the Provinces
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were abolished), and was the member of Parliament for Omata in 1870 and then Grey and Bell
Grey and Bell was a Taranaki electorate in the New Zealand Parliament from 1853 to 1881.
Population centres
The electorate covered the northern, rural part of the Taranaki Province. The localities of Inglewood and Waitara fell within Grey and B ...
from 1871 to 1879 when he retired. He had stood unsuccessfully in the for
He was a member of the Harbour Board (now Port Taranaki), and an advocate of an adequate harbour for New Plymouth. In 1881, Carrington laid the first stone for the main breakwater at the port, using a trowel made from Taranaki ironsand.
Carrington died in New Plymouth and is buried in the family grave in Te Henui Cemetery.
Carrington Street, a New Plymouth arterial route, and its extension Carrington Road, which winds between the Pouakai and Kaitake ranges, are named for him. He is regarded as the father of New Plymouth.
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