Lindsay Buick | |
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Member of the
New Zealand Parliament for Wairau | |
In office 5 December 1890 – 19 December 1896 | |
Preceded by | Henry Dodson |
Succeeded by | Charles H. Mills |
Personal details | |
Born | Oamaru, New Zealand | 13 May 1865
Died | 22 February 1938 Wellington, New Zealand | (aged 72)
Political party | Liberal |
Spouse | Mary Fitzgerald |
Thomas Lindsay Buick CMG (13 May 1865 – 22 February 1938) was a Liberal Member of Parliament for Wairau, New Zealand, a journalist and a historian. He published under the name T. Lindsay Buick.
Born in Oamaru on 13 May 1865, Buick was the son of Margaret (née Petrie) and John Walter Buick. [1] [2] His parents had emigrated from England to Port Chalmers in 1860. Buick received his education at schools in Oamaru and moved to Blenheim in 1884 to work as a carpenter. Although he had no relation to Ireland or Catholicism, he joined the Irish National League "purely as a lover of liberty and justice", and in 1889 he embarked on a speaker tour. He was also active in the temperance movement. [1]
Buick married Mary Fitzgerald on 8 January 1891 at Blenheim; they were to have no children. [1]
Years | Term | Electorate | Party | ||
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1890–1893 | 11th | Wairau | Liberal–Labour | ||
1893–1896 | 12th | Wairau | Liberal–Labour |
Buick represented the Wairau electorate in the New Zealand House of Representatives from 1890 to 1896, when he was defeated. [3] [4] The 1896 general election was contested by Buick and Charles H. Mills, who received 2014 and 2072 votes, respectively. Mills thus succeeded Buick. [5] He was a temperance advocate and supporter of Irish Home Rule. [6]
From 1893 until 1894 he was the Liberal Party's junior whip. [7]
Years later, in July 1904 he unsuccessfully contested Pahiatua by-election as the official Liberal candidate. [1]
Buick wrote numerous works on the pre-European and early contact history New Zealand, and two books on music. His The Treaty of Waitangi: or, How New Zealand became a British Colony (1916) remained the only substantial work on the Treaty until the late 1980s.
Later, he was owner/publisher of the Dannevirke Advocate. [8]
In the 1933 King's Birthday Honours, Buick was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG), for public services. [9] In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal. [10]
Lindsay Buick | |
---|---|
Member of the
New Zealand Parliament for Wairau | |
In office 5 December 1890 – 19 December 1896 | |
Preceded by | Henry Dodson |
Succeeded by | Charles H. Mills |
Personal details | |
Born | Oamaru, New Zealand | 13 May 1865
Died | 22 February 1938 Wellington, New Zealand | (aged 72)
Political party | Liberal |
Spouse | Mary Fitzgerald |
Thomas Lindsay Buick CMG (13 May 1865 – 22 February 1938) was a Liberal Member of Parliament for Wairau, New Zealand, a journalist and a historian. He published under the name T. Lindsay Buick.
Born in Oamaru on 13 May 1865, Buick was the son of Margaret (née Petrie) and John Walter Buick. [1] [2] His parents had emigrated from England to Port Chalmers in 1860. Buick received his education at schools in Oamaru and moved to Blenheim in 1884 to work as a carpenter. Although he had no relation to Ireland or Catholicism, he joined the Irish National League "purely as a lover of liberty and justice", and in 1889 he embarked on a speaker tour. He was also active in the temperance movement. [1]
Buick married Mary Fitzgerald on 8 January 1891 at Blenheim; they were to have no children. [1]
Years | Term | Electorate | Party | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1890–1893 | 11th | Wairau | Liberal–Labour | ||
1893–1896 | 12th | Wairau | Liberal–Labour |
Buick represented the Wairau electorate in the New Zealand House of Representatives from 1890 to 1896, when he was defeated. [3] [4] The 1896 general election was contested by Buick and Charles H. Mills, who received 2014 and 2072 votes, respectively. Mills thus succeeded Buick. [5] He was a temperance advocate and supporter of Irish Home Rule. [6]
From 1893 until 1894 he was the Liberal Party's junior whip. [7]
Years later, in July 1904 he unsuccessfully contested Pahiatua by-election as the official Liberal candidate. [1]
Buick wrote numerous works on the pre-European and early contact history New Zealand, and two books on music. His The Treaty of Waitangi: or, How New Zealand became a British Colony (1916) remained the only substantial work on the Treaty until the late 1980s.
Later, he was owner/publisher of the Dannevirke Advocate. [8]
In the 1933 King's Birthday Honours, Buick was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG), for public services. [9] In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal. [10]