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Name
  
Thomas Duncan

Role
  
Politician

Died
  
1914


Thomas Young Duncan

Thomas Young Duncan (1836 – 18 August 1914) was a New Zealand politician of the Liberal Party.

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Early life

Born at Plumbridge, County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1836, Duncan was educated at Castledamph National School. In 1858 he went to Victoria where he worked on the goldfields, and then in 1862 followed the gold rush to Central Otago in New Zealand. After little success, he began farming at Pukeuri, north of Oamaru, and lived there for the remainder of his life.

Political career

He represented the Waitaki electorate from 1881 to 1890 and then the Oamaru electorate from 1890 to 1911, when he was defeated by Ernest Lee. He was appointed to the New Zealand Legislative Council on 13 June 1912 and served until his death in 1914.

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Thomas Young Duncan Wikipedia


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