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Thorndon is an inner suburb of Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand. It combines residential accommodation and the home of government, and is located at the northern end of the Central Business District. The suburb was named for Lord Petre, the 11th Baron Petre (1793-1850), a Catholic, who was a director of the New Zealand Company and whose family seat in Thorndon Hall, Essex was an important centre of English Catholic Recusancy from the time of Elizabeth I (see: William Byrd (Stondon Massey)). One of Lord Petre's sons, Henry, joined the first expedition of settlers to Wellington and Henry's son, Francis Petre, was a leading architect who designed the Wellington Catholic Cathedral, Sacred Heart Cathedral, situated in Thorndon, and many other notable New Zealand buildings.
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