Capt. Thomas Sparrow Carmichael

The Parnell house of adventurer Captain Thomas Sparrow Carmichael, is on the market for sale 160 years after it was built. Marine Captain Carmichael and his family lived in the 1860s house, originally known as the Harbour Master’s Cottage, although it was built by Parnell MP, cabinet minister and architect Reader Wood. Carmicheal earned a rare Polar Medal for being part of the first crew to pass through the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic in 1850-54 when he was in the in the Royal Navy. He was a merchant marine officer around New Zealand and further afield, and for six years was Tauranga's pilot and harbour master. His house there, built around 1866, was the earliest permanent residence at Maunganui. The house at 66 St Georges Bay Road is still known as Carmichael House. Source: https://www.oneroof.co.nz/news/parnell-home-of-kiwi-adventurer-capt...