Augustus White

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Augustus Edward White (1839–?) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament in New Zealand.

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|end = 1863

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|electorate = Akaroa

|party = Independent politician

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White was born in 1839.{{cite web |title=Youngest members of Parliament |url= https://www.parliament.nz/en/visit-and-learn/mps-and-parliaments-1854-onwards/youngest-members-of-parliament/ |publisher=New Zealand Parliament |access-date=20 April 2020 |date=11 October 2018}} He contested the Akaroa electorate against William Sefton Moorhouse, the incumbent for the seat and Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury. White and Moorhouse received 51 and 32 votes, respectively; a majority of 19 for White, who was thus elected.{{cite news|title=The Elections |url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=DSC18610301.2.11 |access-date=10 July 2010 |work=Daily Southern Cross |volume=XVII |issue=1379 |date=1 March 1861 |page=3}}{{cite news|title=Canterbury |url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=WI18610222.2.15 |access-date=10 July 2010 |work=Wellington Independent |volume=XVI |issue=1499 |date=22 February 1861 |page=5}} At the time of his election, he was aged about 22, one of the youngest members in the country's parliamentary history. White resigned in 1863, and Lancelot Walker won the subsequent by-election.{{cite book |last= Wilson |first= James Oakley |title= New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 |edition= 4th |orig-year= First ed. published 1913 |year= 1985 |publisher=V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |oclc=154283103 }}

White's house Blythcliffe in 37 Rue Balguerie, Akaroa, is presumed to have been designed by Samuel Farr based on drawings prepared by the Australian architect John Verge. Built in 1857, it was "the grandest house of its day in Akaroa". Originally registered as Category II in 1983, its classification was later changed to Category I.{{NZHPT|1713|Blythcliffe|18 June 2012}}