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John Plimmer (1812–1905) has been called the Father of Wellington. He was a member of the Wellington Provincial Council from 1856 to 1857, the first Wellington Town Board (1863) and was on the Wellington City Council from 1870 to 1871. His principal public service was the organisation of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company between 1880 and 1886. The township (now a suburb) of Plimmerton on the Wellington - Manawatu Line built by the company was named after him.

He arrived in Wellington from Shropshire, England on the ship Gertrude in 1841. As an entrepreneur in 1851 he purchased the stranded sailing ship Inconstant and converted the hull into a warehouse and one of the first piers in Wellington. It became known as Plimmer's Ark, a centre of business in early Wellington, used as an auction house, customs office and lighthouse.
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