Name/Title
A. S.(Archibald Scott) CleghornDescription
Archibald Scott Cleghorn (1835-1910) was a Scottish businessman who married into the Hawaiian royal family. Already a wealthy merchant at 37 he married Miriam Likelike, the 19 year old great grand-daughter of Chief Kepookalani, a cousin of King Kamehameha 1.
Cleghorn became a citizen of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1870.[2] He married Princess Miriam K. Likelike who was 19 years old, sister of David Kalākaua, on September 22, 1870, at Washington Place.[3] In 1874 Kalākaua became King, and Cleghorn's daughter Princess Victoria Kaiʻulani was the heir to the throne of the House of Kalākaua.
On January 16, the day before the overthrow, he met privately with Thurston and requested his group respect Kaʻiulani's claim to throne and suggested installing her as queen with a board of regents as an alternative to overthrowing the monarchy. Thurston replied that the "matters have proceeded too far for your plan to be an adequate answer to this situation. We are going to abrogate the Monarchy entirely, and nothing can be done to stop us, so far as I can see!"[8][9][10] Thurston noted that after their conversation Cleghorn looked as though he were about to cry and bowed his head in silence as he left.[8
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