William Cautley

Cautley was born in the English county of Buckinghamshire in 1822, the son of the Reverend Richard Cautley.{{cite book |last=Venn |first=J.A. |author-link=John Archibald Venn |title=Alumni Cantabrigienses, Part II, Volume I |url=https://archive.org/details/p2alumnicantabri01univuoft |access-date=3 February 2015 |year=1940 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=542}} He was educated at Uppingham School from 1837 to 1840, where he was an exhibitioner on leaving,{{cite book |title=Uppingham School Roll, 1824 to 1905 |url=https://archive.org/details/uppinghamschool00schogoog |access-date=3 February 2015 |year=1906 |publisher=Edward Stanford |location=London |page=13}} and then matriculated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge in the Michaelmas term, 1840.

However, in September 1841 he sailed from West India Docks on the Mary Ann, bound for the New Zealand Company's new settlement of Nelson, landing there on 8 February 1842.{{cite web |url=http://www.nelsonmuseum.co.nz/early%2Dsettlers/passengerDetails.aspx?passengerId=424 |title=Early settlers database – passenger details |year=2013 |publisher=Nelson Provincial Museum |access-date=3 February 2015}} He began farming a property known as "Wensley Hill" at Waimea East (now called Richmond).{{cite book |title=The Cyclopedia of New Zealand: Nelson, Marlborough & Westland provincial districts |url=http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc05Cycl-t1-body1-d1-d1-d3.html |access-date=3 February 2015 |year=1906 |publisher=Cyclopedia Company |location=Christchurch |page=33}}{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NENZC18460207.2.2.1 | title=Advertisements | date=7 February 1846 | work=Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle | access-date=3 February 2015 | page=193}}

In September 1842 Cautley was appointed as the Nelson postmaster and clerk to magistrates,{{cite web |url=http://www.nzpictures.co.nz/1842BlueBook.pdf |title=Blue Books 1840–1855 |publisher=Archives New Zealand |access-date=5 February 2015}} and in 1848 he was appointed a Justice of the Peace for the province of New Munster.{{cite web | title=Magistrates |url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ourstuff/Magistrates.htm |publisher=Rootsweb|access-date=4 July 2010 }}

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In 1850, Cautley was appointed as a member of the short-lived Legislative Council of the province of New Munster.{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=WI18500810.2.11 | title=Colonial Secretary's Office | date=10 August 1850 | work=Wellington Independent | access-date=5 February 2015 | page=3}}

In the 1853 general election, Cautley was elected as representative for the Waimea electorate alongside David Monro. The first session of the 1st New Zealand Parliament started on 24 May 1854, and Cautley resigned his seat on 26 May 1854. He did not serve in any further Parliaments.{{cite book |last= Wilson |first= James Oakley |title= New Zealand parliamentary record, 1840-1984 |edition= 4 |orig-year= First ed. published 1913 |year= 1985 |publisher= V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |oclc= 154283103 }}

In November 1854, Cautley was elected as a member for Waimea East on the Nelson Provincial Council following the death of sitting member Francis Otterson. Cautley defeated Stephen Lunn Müller by 54 votes to 40.{{cite news | url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NENZC18541111.2.7 | title=Waimea East election | date=11 November 1854 | work=Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle | access-date=5 February 2015 | page=2}}{{cite news | url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NENZC18541115.2.5 | title=Waimea East election | date=15 November 1854| work=Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle | access-date=5 February 2015 | page=2}}

Cautley died in London on 17 February 1864, after a long illness.{{cite news|title=Died |url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NENZC18640505.2.6 |access-date=4 July 2010 |work=Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle |volume=XXIII |issue=54 |date=5 May 1864 |page=2 }}

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