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3 unusual facts about Panmure


Joseph Greenwood

He served in the first and second New Zealand Parliaments, representing the Pensioner Settlements electorate consisting of the Auckland suburbs of Howick, Onehunga, Otahuhu, and Panmure.

Tamaki River

The inlet extends past the suburbs of Glendowie, Glen Innes, Tamaki, Panmure, and Otahuhu to the west, and Bucklands Beach, Halfmoon Bay, Farm Cove, Sunnyhills and Pakuranga to the east.

In 1865, the estuary was first crossed by a steel swing bridge, located at Panmure, to improve connection between Auckland and Howick.


Baron Panmure

Baron Panmure, of Brechin and Navar in the County of Forfar, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Earl of Panmure

The greater portion of the Panmure estates passed to William another great-nephew of the second Earl and the second son of the Earl of Dalhousie.

Thomas Maule of Panmure

Thomas Maule was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Maule, Baron of Panmure and Benvie, who was killed at the Battle of Harlaw in 1411 and Elizabeth Gray of Fowlis.

William Maule

William Maule of Panmure, successor to the baronies of Panmure and Benvie in 1348

Sir William Maule, successor to the baronies of Panmure and Benvie in 1254


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