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A bronze statue of Captain John Fane Charles Hamilton was installed for seven years, in Hamilton, New Zealand, from in 2013 [1] until removal in June 2020. [2] The settlement of Hamilton (now a city) was named after Captain Hamilton, [3] a Royal Navy officer who was killed in action during the Battle of Gate Pā.
In New Zealand, a statue of a British military officer John Hamilton was removed, and in India another colonial-era statue was relocated. In South Africa, a bust of Cecil Rhodes was decapitated, and a statue of the last president of the Orange Free State was taken down.
In 2013 a life-size bronze statue of John was given to Hamilton by the Gallagher Group "to celebrate 75 years in business". [6] It was produced by Margriet Windhausen and stood in Civic Square, Hamilton. [1] On 12 June 2020, the city council in Hamilton removed the statue of Captain Hamilton at the request of local Māori iwi Waikato Tainui. [7]
On June 12, 2020, the city council of Hamilton, New Zealand, removed the statue of John Fane Charles Hamilton, the British commander for whom the city is named after. [4] [106] The council acknowledged that the removal is part of an effort to rid public spaces of heritage items "seen as representing cultural discord or repression."
The statue's removal has been linked to calls for the removal of statues of figures associated with colonialism and racism in New Zealand and the world, which were precipitated by the protests related to the murder of George Floyd. A local Māori elder Taitimu Maipi, who had vandalised the statue in 2018, has also called for the city to be ...
Captain Hamilton was controversial among Māori for his role at the Battle of Gate Pā during the New Zealand Wars. The statue's removal has been linked to calls for the removal of statues of figures associated with colonialism and racism in New Zealand and the world, which had been precipitated by the murder of George Floyd.
Removed by the Lavachery, Metraux and Watelin expedition. The oldest known statue to date. [10] Trachyte 1.6 m Otago Museum, Dunedin: New Zealand 1929 D29.6066 Moai and pukao were removed from Rapa Nui in 1881 by Alexander Ariʻipaea Salmon and shipped aboard the Nautilus to the Maison Brander plantation in Pape'ete, Tahiti. They were sold to ...
Two months later, the Zealandia bronze figurine was decapitated coinciding with the Queen's 1981 tour of New Zealand. [8] The statue was subsequently removed by the council and reinstated with a new head in August 2004. The new head was created by Roderick Burgess, who also sculpted the replacement head of the George Grey Statue. [1]