About David Forsyth Main
Lived 1883 – 1986 (aged 102–103). David Forsyth Main was a New Zealand politician.
David Forsyth Main (1831 – 27 July 1880) was a 19th-century member of parliament in Otago, New Zealand.
Main was one of three candidates in the electorate in the , when he came a close second to James Benn Bradshaw.
Main represented the Port Chalmers electorate from to 1870, when he retired.
He was a barrister and died in Dunedin aged 48.
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New Zealand politician
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David Forsyth Main was born in 1883.
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David Forsyth Main died in 1986.
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David Forsyth Main was a politician.
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