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His statue in Aotea Square, Auckland City.


Sir Dove-Myer Robinson, KB (15 June 1901 - 14 August 1989) served as Mayor of Auckland from 1959 to 1965 and from 1968 to 1980. He was well liked and became affectionately known across New Zealand as "Robbie". He is considered to be the fifth Jewish mayor of Auckland City, although he rejected Judaism as a teenager and became a lifelong atheist.[]

Life

Born Mayer Dove Robinson in Sheffield, England, he had seven siblings (being the sixth). His parents were Ida Brown and Moss Robinson. While his father described himself as a master jeweller, he actually sold trinkets, and second-hand furniture, and the family was poor and often on the move. Dove-Mayer's mother influenced the upbringing of her son by transmitting the strict values her own rabbi father had taught her. His Jewish heritage ensured that he was often targeted by anti-semitic violence in the schools he attended. The family moved to New Zealand in 1914, where his father then worked as a pawnbroker. Dove-Myer, as he later called himself (ignoring his Robinson family name), found New Zealand agreeable and lacking in the intermittent persecutions he had previously faced.[0]

Remembrance

Dame Barbara Goodman, former Auckland Mayoress and councillor, is his niece, and spearheaded a campaign for the Auckland City Council to build a statue of him in Aotea Square; the statue was completed in 2002; a park also bears his name.

Mayoral terms

Preceded by
Keith Buttle		Mayor of Auckland (first time)
1959-1965		Succeeded by
Roy McElroy
Preceded by
Roy McElroy		Mayor of Auckland (second time)
1968-1980		Succeeded by
Colin Kay

References

1. ^ Robinson, Dove-Myer (entry in the Dictionary of NZ Biography)

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