Thomas Field (politician)
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Thomas Andrew Hemming (Tom) Field (1859 - 1937) was a New Zealand politician of the Reform Party. He held the Nelson electorate for one parliament, from 1914 to 1919, after defeating Harry Atmore in 1914. But Atmore won the seat back in 1919, and held it for 27 more years.
Tom Field was managing director of Wilkins and Field Hardware in Nelson, founded by his father. He was a Nelson City Councillor.
He married Jessica Black, and they had four children. His eldest son Arthur Nelson Field was a journalist and right-wing author.
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New Zealand Parliamentary Record 1840-1984 by J. O. Wilson (1985, Government Printer, Wellington)
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