Thomas Seddon (politician)

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Tom Seddon with members of his family in circa 1929

Thomas Edward Youd "Tom" Seddon (2 July 1884 – 22 January 1972) was a New Zealand politician of the Liberal Party, and a lawyer in Greymouth.

Biography

Parliament of New Zealand
Years Term Electorate Party
1906–1908 16th Westland Liberal
1908–1911 17th Westland Liberal
1911–1914 18th Westland Liberal
1914–1919 19th Westland Liberal
1919–1922 20th Westland Liberal
1925–1928 22nd Westland Liberal

Seddon was born in Kumara, and was educated at Kumara School, the Terrace School (Wellington), Wellington College, and Victoria University of Wellington. He graduated in law, and then became a barrister and solicitor in Greymouth. He married Beatrice Wood in 1922.

He inherited the Westland electorate on the sudden death of his father Richard Seddon by the 1906 by-election, and held it to 1922, when he was defeated by James O'Brien of the Labour Party. He won it back in 1925, but lost it again in 1928 when he was again defeated by O'Brien.[1]

He served in the New Zealand Army in World War I from 1915 to 1919. He was chairman of the War Pensions Board from 1930 to 1963.

References

  1. ↑ Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. p. 233. OCLC 154283103. 
  • Scholefield, Guy, ed. (1925) [First published in 1908]. Who's who in New Zealand and the western Pacific (2nd ed.). Masterton: Guy Scholefield. 
  • Who’s Who in New Zealand (1968, 9th edition)
  • The Seddons: an autobiography by T.E.Y. Seddon (1968, Collins, Auckland)
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