James Dupré Lance (28 January 1829 – 28 March 1897) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament from

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, New Zealand.

Biography

Lance was born in

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, France. He first came to New Zealand in 1856 to visit his brothers. He contested the 1866 election for the superintendency of the Canterbury Provincial Council against

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representing the runholders; he came a distant second. On 12 July 1865, Lance was appointed to the

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. His membership lapsed on 18 October 1867 through absence. He represented the Cheviot electorate from to 1890. He contested the electorate in the and was defeated by Richard Meredith.

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