William Benjamin Scandrett

{{Short description|New Zealand politician}}

{{Use New Zealand English|date=April 2020}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2022}}

{{infobox officeholder

|image = File:William Benjamin Scandrett.jpeg

|name = William Benjamin Scandrett

|order = Mayor of Invercargill

|term_start1 = 1894

|term_end1 = 1895

|predecessor1 = Andrew Raeside

|successor1 = John Sinclair

|term_start2 = 1904

|term_end2 = 1909

|predecessor2 = George Froggatt

|successor2 = Charles Stephen Longuet

|term_start3 = 1912

|term_end3 = 1913

|predecessor3 = William Ott

|successor3 = Duncan McFarlane

|birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1840|02|07}}

|birth_place = Clapham, London, England

|death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1917|09|23|1840|02|07}}

|death_place = Invercargill, New Zealand

}}

William Benjamin Scandrett (7 February 1840 – 23 September 1917) was a New Zealand politician. He migrated from England to New Zealand in 1855, and moved to Invercargill in 1862. He was the first town clerk of Invercargill after it was proclaimed a municipality, serving from 1871 to 1893. He was deputy mayor of Invercargill twice (1902 and 1911) and mayor of Invercargill three times (1894–1895, 1904–1909 and 1912–1913). Scandrett married Susannah Hinton Milstead and had five children.{{cite web|title=Mayors down the years |url=http://www.icc.govt.nz/YourCouncil/MayorsDownTheYears.aspx |publisher=Invercargill City Council |access-date=18 October 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100809053827/http://www.icc.govt.nz/YourCouncil/MayorsDownTheYears.aspx |archive-date=9 August 2010 }}{{cite web|title=Mayors 1888 to 1927 |url=http://www.icc.govt.nz/YourCouncil/MayorsDownTheYears/Mayors2.aspx |publisher=Invercargill City Council |access-date=18 October 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120316132449/http://www.icc.govt.nz/YourCouncil/MayorsDownTheYears/Mayors2.aspx |archive-date=16 March 2012 }}{{cite news|title=Obituary|url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19170924.2.57 |access-date=21 October 2010 |work=The Evening Post |volume=xciv |issue=73 |date=24 September 1917 |page=8 }}{{cite news |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST19020613.2.8 |title=Deputy mayor |work=The Southland Times |issue=16062 |date=13 June 1902 |access-date=11 October 2019 |page=2}}{{cite web|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST19110103.2.48 |title=Bio |website=paperspast.natlib.govt.nz |access-date=11 October 2019}}