Cliff Skeggs
{{short description|New Zealand businessman and mayor of Dunedin (1931–2025)}}
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|name = Sir Cliff Skeggs
|honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=NZL|KB|size=100%}}
|image = Clifford Skeggs.jpg
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|caption = Skeggs, {{circa|1980}}
|order = 53rd
|office = Mayor of Dunedin
|term_start = 1977
|term_end = 1989
|predecessor = Jim Barnes
|successor = Richard Walls
|birth_name = Clifford George Skeggs
|birth_date = {{Birth date|1931|03|19|df=y}}
|birth_place = Bluff, New Zealand
|death_date = {{Death date and age|2025|06|12|1931|03|19|df=y}}
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|education = Southland Technical College
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|spouse = {{marriage|Marie Ledgerwood|1951}}
|children = 3
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Sir Clifford George Skeggs {{post-nominals|country=NZL|JP|size=85%}} (19 March 1931 – 12 June 2025) was a New Zealand businessman and local politician. He served as mayor of Dunedin from 1977 to 1989.
Early life and family
Skeggs was born in Bluff, and was educated at Bluff School and Southland Technical College. He married Marie Ledgerwood in 1951, and they went on to have three sons.{{cite book |editor-last=Lambert |editor-first=Max |title=Who's Who in New Zealand |edition=12th |year=1991 |publisher=Reed |location=Auckland |isbn=0-7900-0130-6 |page=583}}
Business career
Skeggs was involved in the fishing industry from 1953, and developed the Skeggs Group of which he was the chairman and chief executive into what was the largest private inshore fishing fleet in New Zealand with investments including shipping, aviation (Pacifica Air) and property.
Political career
Skeggs was on the Dunedin City Council and Otago Harbour Board, and later was chairman of the port company Port Otago. He was mayor of Dunedin from 1977 to 1989.
Death
Honours and awards
In the 1987 Queen's Birthday Honours, Skeggs was appointed a Knight Bachelor, in recognition of his service as the mayor of Dunedin.{{London Gazette |issue=50950 |date=13 June 1987 |page=31 |supp=4}} In 2000, he was inducted into the New Zealand Business Hall of Fame.{{cite web |url=http://www.businesshalloffame.co.nz/past-laureates/ |title=Past laureates |website=Business Hall of Fame |access-date=19 February 2023}}
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Category:People from Bluff, New Zealand
Category:Businesspeople from Dunedin
Category:New Zealand Knights Bachelor
Category:People educated at Aurora College (Invercargill)
Category:Dunedin City Councillors
Category:Businesspeople awarded knighthoods
Category:New Zealand justices of the peace
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