Trevor Davey (5 July 1926 – 13 February 2012) was a

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from Gisborne in the

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of New Zealand who represented the Labour Party.

Biography

Davey was born in

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, Lancashire, England, in 1926, the son of H. W. Davey. He received his education at

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. Davey was a member of the

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from 1946 to 1948. He married Mavis Birch Baxter in

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in 1949, the daughter of H. A. Baxter. They had one son. He was the managing director of Queen's Hall,

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between 1956 and 1966. Davey emigrated to New Zealand with his wife and son in 1966. Davey served on the Gisborne City Council from 1971 to 1974 where he was a member of the council's works, library, town planning and airport committees. He represented the Gisborne electorate in the

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from , when he beat the incumbent, Esme Tombleson, the first woman who had represented Gisborne in Parliament. At the next election in , he was defeated by

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's Bob Bell. He was awarded the

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for service to the community. Davey was a governor of both Gisborne Boys' and

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s. He was on the executive of the

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(1972–1973).

References

* 1926 births 2012 deaths People from Didsbury English emigrants to New Zealand Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives New Zealand MPs for North Island electorates New Zealand Labour Party MPs New Zealand city councillors New Zealand businesspeople People from Gisborne, New Zealand Unsuccessful candidates in the 1969 New Zealand general election Unsuccessful candidates in the 1975 New Zealand general election {{NewZealand-business-bio-stub