John Davies Ormond (31 May 1831 – 6 October 1917) was a New Zealand politician whose positions included

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, Minister of Public Works and member of the

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. He represented the

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electorate in Parliament from

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to 1881, when he was defeated (standing for the electorate of

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). He then represented the Napier electorate from to 1890, when he retired. He was appointed to the Legislative Council on 20 January 1891 and served until his death on 6 October 1917. He was appointed to the Council as one of seven new members (including

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himself) appointed to the Council by the outgoing fourth Atkinson Ministry; a move regarded by Liberals as a stacking of the upper house against the new government. Ormond was baptised on 28 June 1831. He came from

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, (then

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, and established a homestead called Wallingford in Central Hawke's Bay in 1847, which became a major farming station. Businessman and farmer Sir

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, politician and farmer

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, and politician and

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chairman

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were his grandsons. His brother-in-law and husband of his sister was the Governor of Jamaica,

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. His second great-granddaughter is the Headmistress, Ormond Felicity Lusk. He married Hannah Richardson on 4 December 1860, the sister of

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. He died on 6 October 1917 at his home 'Tintagel' in Napier.

References

External links

Wallingford Station, Ormond family history

Biography in the 1966 in Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
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