page_title: Arthur Winton Brown
section_title: Community service
hierarchical_section_title: Arthur Winton Brown / Community service
caption_attribution_description: Elevated view of central Wellington and Harbour, looking from Mount Street towards Mount Victoria. Courtenay Place, Elizabeth Street on right of image runs up into Mount Victoria. Photographer: Burton Brothers (Wellington City Council archive reference: 00120:0:33)
context_page_description: Arthur Winton Brown JP was the Mayor of Wellington, New Zealand in 1886 and 1891. He died at New Orleans, Louisiana.
context_section_description: Brown's first public office was on the Mount Cook School Committee, when aged 25. He successfully stood for the Cook Ward in the Wellington City Council elections and was a City Councillor from 1881 to 1885. He contested and won the Mayoralty in 1886. He did not stand in 1887, but in 1888 he stood for Council in the Te Aro Ward, which he served from 1888 to 1890. In 1891 he was again elected Mayor.
  Brown was involved in a number of community organisations. He was also Grand Master of a leading Friendly society. A position he was particularly proud of.
  In December 1891 Brown laid the foundation stone to the Wellington Free Public Library on the corner of Victoria and Mercer Streets. This was to be his last public act as Mayor before his disappearance.
caption: Wellington in 1885
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