Lindsay Buick
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.
Early life
Buick was born in Oamaru in 1865.[1]
Member of Parliament
| Parliament of New Zealand | ||||
| Years | Term | Electorate | Party | |
| 1890–1893 | 11th | Wairau | Liberal | |
| 1893–1896 | 12th | Wairau | Liberal | |
Buick represented the Wairau electorate in the New Zealand House of Representatives from 1890 to 1896, when he was defeated.[2][3] The 1896 general election was contested by Buick and Charles H Mills, who received 2014 and 2072 votes, respectively. Mills thus succeeded Buick.[4]
Historical work
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.[5]
In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.[6]
Published work
- Old Marlborough: or, The Story of a Province (1900)
- Old Manawatu: or, The Wild Days of the West (1903)
- Old New Zealander: or, Te Rauparaha, the Napoleon of the South (1911)
- Letters from Abroad (1914)
- The Treaty of Waitangi: or, How New Zealand became a British Colony (1916)
- New Zealand's First War: or, The Rebellion of Hone Heke (1926)
- Romance of the Gramophone (1927)
- French at Akaroa: An Adventure in Colonization (1928)
- Jubilee of the Port of Wellington, 1880-1930 (1930)
- Mystery of the Moa: New Zealand's Avian Giant (1931)
- British Residency at Waitangi (1932)
- Waitangi: Ninety-four Years After (1934)
- Old British Residency at the Bay of Islands (1934)
- Centenary of a Flag: New Zealand's Old National Ensign (1934)
- Elijah: The Story of Mendelssohn’s Oratorio (1935)
- The Discovery of Dinornis: The Story of a Man, a Bone, and a Bird (1936)
- Moa-Hunters of New Zealand: Sportsmen of the Stone Age (1936)
Notes
- ↑ Traue, J. E. "Buick, Thomas Lindsay - Biography". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
- ↑ Wilson 1985, p. 186.
- ↑ Hamer 1988, p. 361.
- ↑ "The Elections". Hawera & Normanby Star. Volume XXXIII, Issue 3416, 7 December 1896. p. 2. Retrieved 24 July 2011.
- ↑ Hamer, p.312
- ↑ "Official jubilee medals". The Evening Post. 6 May 1935. p. 4. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
References
- The New Zealand Liberals: the Years of Power 1891-1912 by David Hamer (1988, Auckland University Press, Auckland)
- Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.
| New Zealand Parliament | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Henry Dodson |
Member of Parliament for Wairau 1890–1896 |
Succeeded by Charles H Mills |
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