Edmund Hooke Wilson Bellairs (1823–1896) was a member of the
New Zealand Legislative Council
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Bellairs was born in
Norfolk
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and arrived in
Dunedin
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in 1852.
He was a member of the Legislative Council in
Auckland
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from 31 December 1853 to 17 June 1856, when his membership lapsed due to absence.
He left New Zealand about 1856 and afterwards lived mainly in France. Copies and reproductions of Bellairs' pencil drawings and watercolours of historic interest are held at the
Hocken Collections
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T ...
.
Bellairs died 14 September 1896 at Newlands,
Hatfield, Hertfordshire
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1823 births
1896 deaths
Members of the New Zealand Legislative Council
19th-century New Zealand politicians