John Williamson was a New Zealand politician,printer and newspaper proprietor. He was a leading opponent of the 1860s wars against Māori and lost his newspaper and fortune as a result.
John Duthie was a politician and businessman in New Zealand. Originally from Scotland,he came to Auckland in 1863. He set up his own ironmongery in New Plymouth,then Wanganui,and he finally settled in Wellington. In the latter city,he was mayor for one term. He then represented Wellington in Parliament for a total of eleven years. For the last two years of his life,he was appointed to the New Zealand Legislative Council.
Joseph Augustus Tole was a 19th-century New Zealand lawyer,politician,and Minister of Justice from 1884 to 1887.
Thames is a former New Zealand electorate,in the Thames-Coromandel District. It existed from 1871 to 1946.
Kaiapoi was a rural New Zealand electorate,north of Christchurch in the Canterbury region of New Zealand from 1861 to 1946. It was represented by twelve Members of Parliament.
Coleridge is a former parliamentary electorate in the Canterbury region of New Zealand. The electorate existed from the 1866 election to 1887.
Charles Edward Button was a solicitor,Supreme Court judge,Mayor of Hokitika and later Birkenhead,and an independent conservative Member of Parliament in New Zealand. Born in Tasmania,he came to New Zealand with his wife in 1863. He first lived in Invercargill,then in Westland,and after a brief period in Christchurch,he settled in Auckland. He was an MP for two periods,and when he was first elected to Parliament,he beat his colleague,friend,political opponent,and later Premier Richard Seddon;this was the only election defeat ever suffered by Seddon.
Ebenezer Hamlin was a member of parliament in New Zealand,and an independent conservative.
William Thorne Buckland was a 19th-century Member of Parliament in New Zealand.
Henry Richard Webb JP FRMS was a New Zealand businessman and politician. He represented Lyttelton in Parliament for 2½years and was a supporter of education in his later years. Born in Australia,he came to Canterbury in 1868.
Benjamin Tonks was a 19th-century mayor and Member of Parliament in Auckland,New Zealand.
The 4th New Zealand Parliament was a term of the Parliament of New Zealand.
Archibald Clark was a Scottish 19th-century Member of Parliament in the Auckland Region,New Zealand. He was the first Mayor of Auckland in 1851. His company,Archibald Clark and Sons,manufactured clothing and was a wholesaler.
John McLeod was a provincial and national politician in New Zealand. He was a member of the New Zealand Parliament for half a term from 1871 to 1873.
Ernest Eden George,known as Eden George,was born in New South Wales and came to New Zealand as a young man. He made his career in photography and was active in Auckland and Dunedin,but mainly in Christchurch. Entrepreneurial,combative and confrontational,he entered the political scene. In his early life,he stood at five elections to the New Zealand Parliament,but he came last at every occasion. Surprisingly,he was elected Mayor of Christchurch in 1892 without,unlike all his predecessors,having ever served as a councillor on Christchurch City Council before. He had a most difficult year,was soundly beaten at the next election and told councillors that they "should forget him,as he would forget them". Indeed,in 1906,his was the only photo of all the city's ex mayors that was not on display in the mayor's office.
George McCullagh Reed was a New Zealand presbyterian minister,journalist and newspaper proprietor.
Henry Chamberlin,in many sources referred to as Chamberlain,was a member of the New Zealand Legislative Council. He came to New Zealand in his late 20s with a younger brother and a lot of capital,which he invested in land south and west of Auckland. After a failed attempt to win election to the House of Representatives in 1867,he was called to the Legislative Council in early 1869. He remained a member until his accidental drowning in 1888.
Auckland Institute and Museum,known as Auckland Museum Institute since 1996 and the Royal Society of New Zealand Auckland Branch,is a learned society in New Zealand.
Matoaka was a 1092-ton wooden New Brunswick full-rigged ship built in 1853 for Willis,Gunn,&Co. She was sold to Shaw,Savill,&Albion by 1859. Between 1859 and 1869 she made eight voyages to New Zealand. Her fastest run from Bristol to Lyttelton,New Zealand was 82 days in 1862. On 13 May 1869 she left Lyttelton for London under Captain Alfred Stevens with 45 passengers and 32 crew but was never seen again. In 1865 she was classed as 1322 tons.
Lemuel John Bagnall,was a New Zealand businessman and politician who was Mayor of Auckland City from 1910 to 1911.
