Keith Buttle
{{Short description|New Zealand businessman and politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix =
| name = Keith Buttle
| honorific-suffix ={{post-nominals|country=NZL|CBE|size=100%}}
| image = Keith Buttle (cropped).jpg
| caption =
| order = 31st Mayor of Auckland City
| deputy = Fred Ambler
| predecessor = Tom Ashby
| successor = Dove-Myer Robinson
| term_start = 11 November 1957
| term_end = 8 December 1959
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1900|12|23|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Auckland, New Zealand
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1973|12|15|1900|12|23|df=yes}}
| death_place = Auckland, New Zealand
| spouse = Una Agnes Buttle
| profession = Sharebroker
}}
Keith Nicholson Buttle {{post-nominals|country=NZL|CBE|size=85%}} (23 November 1900 – 15 December 1973) was a New Zealand businessman and politician. He served as mayor of Auckland City from 1957 to 1959.
Biography
Born 23 November 1900 in Auckland, Buttle attended Auckland Grammar School. On 23 March 1927, he married Una Agnes Parkinson at the Pitt Street Methodist church in Auckland.{{cite news | url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19270608.2.2.3 | title=Marriages | date=8 June 1927 | work= The New Zealand Herald | access-date=26 June 2018 | page=1}} He was a sharebroker and partner in an Auckland firm of sharebrokers. He served on the Auckland City Council for 18 years, the Auckland Harbour Board for five years and Auckland Harbour Bridge Authority for three years.
Buttle was elected mayor of Auckland City, replacing Tom Ashby in a by-election in November 1957 after Ashby died part-way through his term.New Zealand Who’s Who 8th edition 1964 In the 1961 New Year Honours, Buttle was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, in recognition of his service as Auckland mayor.{{London Gazette |issue=42233 |date=31 December 1960 |page=8928 |supp=y}}
Buttle died on 15 December 1973, and he was buried at Purewa Cemetery.{{cite web |url=http://www.purewa.co.nz/view/?id=14198 |title=Burial & cremation details |publisher=Purewa Cemetery and Crematorium |access-date=26 June 2018}}
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Category:20th-century New Zealand businesspeople
Category:New Zealand Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Category:People educated at Auckland Grammar School
Category:New Zealand stockbrokers
Category:Auckland City Councillors
Category:20th-century New Zealand politicians
Category:Burials at Purewa Cemetery
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