Archibald Scott Cleghorn Archibald Scott Cleghorn laid the groundwork for government affairs and public gardens in Hawaiʻi. He was a trustee of Liliʻuokalani Trust from 1909 to 1910.Archibald Scott Cleghorn was born on Nov. 15, 1835, in Edinburgh, Scotland, to Thomas Cleghorn and Janet Nisbet. He had four siblings. In the late 1840s, the Cleghorn family resided in New Zealand, where their father served as the Public Works Superintendent. Intending to relocate to San Francisco, the family left New Zealand on the brig Sisters and arrived in Hawaiʻi on June 17, 1851. They remained in Hawaiʻi, where their father opened and operated a dry-goods store on Nuʻuanu Street in Honolulu. Cleghorn took over his father’s business at age 17, expanding reach throughout the Islands. On Sept. 22, 1870, Cleghorn married Miriam Kapili Likelike Kapaʻakea, daughter of the Honorable C. Kapaʻakea. Known as Princess Likelike, she was the sister of Queen Liliʻuokalani and King David Kalākaua. Princess Likelike bore their only child, daughter, Victoria Kaʻiulani Kawēkiu i Lunalilo Kalaninuiahilapalapa Cleghorn, on Oct. 16, 1875. She was born in the Cleghornʻs estate on Queen Emma Street, the site of the current Pacific Club in downtown Honolulu. Kaʻiulani was in line to inherit the throne of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Upon her birth, Kaʻiulani was gifted land in Waikīkī by her godmother, Princess Ruth Keʻelikōlani. The estate, later known as Ainahau, became the site of a country home and garden for Cleghorn and his family. He led various boards and commissions for Hawaiʻi from the 1870s to the early 1900s. Cleghorn served as:· Member of the Board of Health from May 23, 1882· Collector of General Customs from May 1, 1887, to April 15, 1893· Acting Governor of O’ahu for one month in July 1887· Member of the Bureau of Immigration from July 7, 1887, to June 1894· Trustee of the Queenʻs Hospital from Aug. 3, 1905, to July 1, 1909, where he also was the first president· President of the Pacific Club from 1865 to 1910 (the Pacific Club originally was called the British Club). Cleghorn also was a member of the House of Nobles from 1873 to 1886, and the Privy Council from 1873 to 1891. When Gov. John Owen Dominis died in November 1891, Cleghorn succeeded him as the Royal Governor of Oʻahu and served through Feb. 28, 1893. Cleghornʻs knowledge of horticulture earned him the distinction, Hawaiʻi's Father of Parks. He served on the Honolulu Parks Commission from Nov. 30, 1900, to Nov. 1, 1910, overseeing public gardens and landscaping in the territory. As president of the Kapiʻolani Park Association in the 1880s, he oversaw the planting of banyan trees and double-rowed ironwood trees that still exist at the base of Diamond Head in Waikīkī. At his Ainahau Estate, Cleghorn planted Hawaiʻiʻs first banyan tree and introduced various flowers and shrubs from around the world. Ainahau Estate hosted frequent guests, including author Robert Lewis Stevenson, who wrote of the banyan tree and surrounding gardens. Samuel Mills Damon, a good friend of Cleghorn and a former trustee of Liliʻuokalani Trust, was also a regular guest at Ainahau Estate. Much like the gardens at Ainahau Estate, the familyʻs original home on Queen Emma Street held many exotic flowers and plants. Cleghorn was instrumental in the original landscape of Thomas Square Park (across from the existing Neal S. Blaisdell Center), where he planted trees for the parkʻs opening on April 7, 1887.His wife, Princess Likelike, passed away on Feb. 2, 1887, shortly before the parkʻs opening. And 12 years later, at age 23, Kaʻiulani passed away on March 6, 1899. Cleghorn passed away on Nov. 1, 1910, at Ainahau Estate and lays at rest next to his wife and daughter at the Royal Mausoleum, Mauna ʻAla, in Nuʻuanu.