Joseph Witheford
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Joseph Howard Witheford (1848 – 30 October 1931) was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament in Auckland, New Zealand.
Biography
He was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England, in 1848.{{cite web |url=http://search.ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?ti=5544&indiv=try&db=1911england&h=41416062 |title=1911 England census |year=2011 |website= |publisher=Ancestry.com Operations |accessdate=29 August 2015 |url-access=subscription }}
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|term = 15th
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Witheford was elected to the City of Auckland electorate in a by-election on 27 April 1900, and held his electorate to 1905. In that year, the multi-member electorate was replaced by several single-member electorates, and Witheford retired from parliament.
{{cite book
|last= Wilson |first= James Oakley
|title= New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984
|edition= 4th
|origyear= First ed. published 1913 |year= 1985
|publisher=V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer
|location= Wellington
|oclc=154283103
|page=247
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Witheford served as mayor of Birkenhead from 1901 to 1905.{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NZH19311105.2.120 | title=Late Mr. Witheford | date=5 November 1931 | work= The New Zealand Herald | accessdate=29 August 2015 | page=10}}
He died on 30 October 1931 and was buried in the Anglican section of Pompallier Cemetery, Birkenhead.{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NZH19311031.2.2.6 | title=Deaths | date=31 October 1931 | work= The New Zealand Herald | accessdate=29 August 2015 | page=1}}
References
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{{s-ttl | title=Member of Parliament for City of Auckland | years=1900–1905 | alongside = William Napier, George Fowlds, Frederick Baume, Alfred Kidd}}
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Category:New Zealand Liberal Party MPs
Category:Colony of New Zealand people
Category:Mayors of places in the Auckland Region
Category:Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives
Category:New Zealand MPs for Auckland electorates
Category:People from Bromsgrove
Category:English emigrants to New Zealand
Category:19th-century New Zealand politicians
Category:Auckland Harbour Board members
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