About Henry Manders
Lived 1829 – 1891 (aged 61). Henry Manders was a New Zealand politician.
Isaac Henry Manders (11 July 1829 – 5 January 1891) was a New Zealand politician who was a Member of Parliament in the Otago region.
Manders was born in England and baptised in Finsbury, London. He lived in Australia in the 1850s and 1860s with his wife, Dorothea Coleman Hyde. Their son Thomas Charles (born and died in 1854) was born in Kilmore, Victoria, followed by the birth of their daughter, Dorothea Charlotte (later McJunkin; 1856–1924) in Prahran, Victoria and their son Theodore Richard (1862–63) in Geelong, Victoria.
Manders was one of three candidates in the electorate in the , when he came a distant last to James Benn Bradshaw.
Manders came second in the for the Wakatipu electorate but represented it from 1876 to 1879, when he was defeated.
He was descended from the wealthy Manders of Dublin, born in London, and educated at Rugby School. He had been on the Otago Provincial Council, and employed by local councils.
He died in Queenstown aged 62 One report said his abilities were "misdirected" and he had been "on the spree".
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Who was Henry Manders?
Member of Parliament for Otago, New Zealand, 1876 to 1879 (1829–1891)
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Henry Manders was born on 11 July 1829.
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Henry Manders died on 5 January 1891.
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Henry Manders was a politician.
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Henry Manders was New Zealand.
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