Walter Symes
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|term_end1 = 1902
|predecessor1 = Felix McGuire
|successor1 = William Thomas Jennings
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|parliament2 = New Zealand
|term_start2 = 1902
|term_end2 = 1908
|predecessor2 = Frederick Haselden
|successor2 = George Pearce
|birth_date = 1852
|birth_place = Taranaki, New Zealand
|death_date = {{Death date and given age|1914|10|14|63|df=y}}
|death_place = Hamilton, New Zealand
|party = Liberal
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Walter Symes (1852 – 14 October 1914) was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand.
Biography
=Early life=
Walter Symes was born in Taranaki in 1852.{{cite news |url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=HNS19141015.2.36 |title=Obituary |work=Hawera & Normanby Star |volume=LXVIII |page=7 |date=15 October 1914}} He came from a rural background, with his parents (who were English immigrants) farming land at Mangorei at the outbreak of the New Zealand Wars. He lived in New Plymouth for some many years and it was there where he received his education in a school on the present site of Wesley Hall. He later moved to Wanganui.
=Political career=
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|start = {{NZ election link year|1896}}
|end = 1899
|term = 13th
|electorate = {{NZ electorate link|Egmont}}
|party = New Zealand Liberal Party
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|start = {{NZ election link year|1899}}
|end = 1902
|term = 14th
|electorate = Egmont
|party = New Zealand Liberal Party
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|start = {{NZ election link year|1902}}
|end = 1905
|term = 15th
|electorate = {{NZ electorate link|Patea}}
|party = New Zealand Liberal Party
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|start = {{NZ election link year|1905}}
|end = 1908
|term = 16th
|electorate = Patea
|party = New Zealand Liberal Party
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He was elected as the Member of Parliament for the Egmont electorate from 1896 to 1902 representing the Liberal Party. He then held the Patea electorate from 1902 to 1908, when he was defeated standing for Stratford.{{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=238}}
=Death=
Symes died in Hamilton on 14 October 1914, aged 63, and was buried at Hamilton West Cemetery.{{cite web |url=http://www.hamilton.govt.nz/our-services/do-it-online/cemetery-search/Pages/default.aspx?surname=symes&forename=walter |title=Cemetery search |date= |website= |publisher=Hamilton City Council |accessdate=24 April 2016}} He was survived by his wife and children.
References
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Category:New Zealand Liberal Party MPs
Category:Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives
Category:New Zealand MPs for North Island electorates
Category:Unsuccessful candidates in the 1908 New Zealand general election
Category:Burials at Hamilton West Cemetery
Category:New Zealand people of English descent
Category:19th-century New Zealand politicians
Category:Colony of New Zealand people
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