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12 Days of Christmas | Lindsay Buick GMC Edition
Thomas Lindsay Buick (13 May 1866 – 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.
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- 12 Days of Christmas Lindsay Buick GMC Edition
- Early life
- Member of Parliament
- Historical work
- Published work
- References
Early life
Buick was born in Oamaru in 1865. His parents had both immigrated at Port Chalmers from England in 1860. Lindsay Buick received his education at schools in Oamaru and moved to Blenheim in 1884 to work in his learned trade 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.
Buick married Mary Fitzgerald on 8 January 1891 at Blenheim; they were to have no children.
Member of Parliament
Buick represented the Wairau electorate in the New Zealand House of Representatives from 1890 to 1896, when he was defeated. The 1896 general election was contested by Buick and Charles H. Mills, who received 2014 and 2072 votes, respectively. Mills thus succeeded Buick. Years later, in July 1904 he unsuccessfully contested Pahiatua by-election as the official Liberal candidate.
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.
Buick was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 1933 Birthday Honours. In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.