About Edwin Mitchelson
Lived 1846 – 1934 (aged 88). Edwin Mitchelson was a New Zealand politician.
Sir Edwin Mitchelson (7 April 1846 – 11 April 1934) was a New Zealand politician and timber merchant.
Member of Parliament
Mitchelson was born in Auckland in a cottage on Queen Street in the mid 1840s. He developed business interests in timber and kauri gum, shipbuilding, and horse racing and breeding. chairman of the Remuera Road Board, He was buried at Purewa Cemetery in the Auckland suburb of Meadowbank.
Personal life
Mitchelson had a wooden mansion built at Muriwai around the year 1902, which he named Oaia, named after Oaia Island. In 1935, Arthur William Baden Powell named the fossil species Bathytoma mitchelsoni in honour of Mitchelson, as the holotype of the species had been found in deposits on Mitchelson's Muriwai property.
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Who was Edwin Mitchelson?
New Zealand politician
When was Edwin Mitchelson born?
Edwin Mitchelson was born on 7 April 1846 in Auckland.
When did Edwin Mitchelson die?
Edwin Mitchelson died on 11 April 1934 in Auckland.
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Edwin Mitchelson was a politician.
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Edwin Mitchelson was New Zealand.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Edwin Mitchelson. https://biography.guide/edwin-mitchelson/
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