Charles Blakiston

Charles Robert Blakiston (6 July 1825 – 1 September 1898) was a New Zealand politician.

He took land at Ferry Road (rural section (RS) 101), which he subdivided in the 1880s.

The resulting village became known as Ashbourne (after Blakiston's birthplace) and is these days part of Woolston.

[5] In the same ceremony, the Bishop's third daughter, Ellen Shephard Harper, married Charles George Tripp.

[6] Blakiston was a member of the New Zealand Legislative Council from 8 October 1857 to 15 July 1862, when he resigned.