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Sir Rufane Donkin (1773-1841)
Rufane Donkin was given the task of organising the 1820 Settlers in Port Elizabeth. He was officially the first governor of Port Elizabeth from the 6 June 1820 - 1821. He married Elizabeth Markham in Yorkshire who travelled with him to India where she became seriously ill and died in August 1818 after their first son George David was born. Sir Rufane Donkin built a memorial to his wife Elizabeth known as the Donkin Memorial on top of a hill above the city center and named the city, Port Elizabeth, in her memory.
(In 1976 Mr. H.E. Meyer completed his monumental survey of the origins of Port Elizabeth Street and district names, before leaving to settle in his native Germany. )