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Harold Tapley
Harold Livingstone Tapley (25 January 1875 – 21 December 1932) was a New Zealand politician of the Reform Party. Born in Semaphore, South Australia in 1875, Tapley emigrated to Dunedin in 1893. He represented Dunedin North in Parliament from 1925 to 1928, when he was defeated. He was the Mayor of Dunedin The Mayor of Dunedin is the head of the local government, the city council of Dunedin, New Zealand. The Mayor's role is "to provide leadership to the other elected members of the territorial authority, be a leader in the community and perform c ... from 1923 to 1927. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1926 King's Birthday Honours. References 1875 births 1932 deaths New Zealand Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George Mayors of Dunedin Reform Party (New Zealand) MPs New Zealand MPs for Dunedin electorates Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives Politicians from Adelaide Austr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Douglas (plumber)
James Sandilands Douglas (16 April 1872 – 2 August 1957) was a New Zealand plumber and politician. He served as mayor of Dunedin from 1921 to 1923. Early life and family Douglas was born in Dunedin Dunedin ( ; mi, Ōtepoti) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand (after Christchurch), and the principal city of the Otago region. Its name comes from , the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. Th ... on 16 April 1872. His father, also called James Sandilands Douglas, was the publican of Wain's Hotel in Dunedin, and his mother was Agnes Fortune Douglas (née McFadyen), whose father Hugh McFadyen was the first town clerk of North East Valley Borough. On 18 April 1900, Douglas married Catherine Mackie at the Leith Street Congregational Church in Dunedin. The couple went on to have seven children. Douglas' brother, Robert Rutherford Douglas, unsuccessfully contested the Dunedin South electorate for the Independent Political Labour L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |