Lorrie Pickering
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Herbert Elmer Lorraine Pickering {{post-nominals|country=NZL|QSO|JP|size=85%}} (29 March 1919 – 25 July 2009) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party, and was a cabinet minister.
Biography
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Pickering was born in Havelock in 1919, the son of Charles Henry Pickering.{{sfn|Petersen|1968|p=270}} He received his education from Marlborough College, Christchurch Teachers' College, and the University of Canterbury.{{sfn|Gustafson|1986|p=337}} During World War II, he was a flying instructor for the RNZAF. After the war, he worked for the New Zealand Broadcasting School.{{sfn|Gustafson|1986|p=337}} In 1941, Pickering married Margaret Priscilla McKenzie, the daughter of Donald Seaforth McKenzie; they were to have two sons and one daughter.{{sfn|Petersen|1968|p=270}}
He contested the {{NZ electorate link|Avon}} electorate for National in {{NZ election link|1960}}; then, following the death of William Gillespie, he contested the {{NZ electorate link|Hurunui}} electorate in the {{By-election link|Hurunui|1961}} and was elected.{{sfn|Wilson|1985|p=227}} The Hurunui electorate was abolished in 1963,{{sfn|Wilson|1985|p=264}} and Pickering successfully contested the Rangiora electorate instead, which he represented until his retirement due to ill-health in 1972.{{sfn|Gustafson|1986|p=337}}{{sfn|Wilson|1985|p=227}}
In 1961 he was one of ten National MPs to vote with the Opposition and remove capital punishment for murder from the Crimes Bill that the Second National Government had introduced.
In 1969, he was appointed to the Executive Council by Keith Holyoake (unusually, he was not also a cabinet minister) and served until 1972.{{sfn|Wilson|1985|p=90}} He was Minister of Education in the Second National Government under Jack Marshall, from 9 February to 8 December 1972.{{sfn|Wilson|1985|p=91}}
In the 1993 Queen's Birthday Honours, Pickering was appointed a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for public services.{{London Gazette |date=12 June 1993 |supp=3 |issue=53334 |page=38 }} Pickering died on 25 July 2009.{{cite web|title=Obituaries — Hon Herbert Elmer Lorraine Pickering QSO |url= http://www.parliament.nz/mi-NZ/PB/Debates/Debates/f/8/6/49HansD_20090728_00000013-Obituaries-Hon-Herbert-Elmer-Lorraine-Pickering.htm |publisher=New Zealand Parliament|access-date=6 October 2010}}
Notes
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References
- {{cite book |last = Gustafson |first = Barry |authorlink = Barry Gustafson |title = The First 50 Years : A History of the New Zealand National Party |year = 1986 |publisher = Reed Methuen |location = Auckland |isbn = 0-474-00177-6}}
- {{cite book |title=Who's Who in New Zealand, 1968 |last=Petersen |first=George Conrad |authorlink=George Petersen (historian) |year=1968 |edition=9th |publisher=A.H & A.W. Reed |location=Wellington}}
- {{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}}
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