Herbert Valentine Tarte
Fijian planter and politician
About Herbert Valentine Tarte
Lived 1876 – 1936 (aged 59–60).
Herbert Valentine Tarte (1876–1936) was a Fijian planter and politician. He served in the Legislative Council in the early 1920s.
Biography Tarte was born in 1876 in the Taveuni village of Vatu Wiri, the oldest son of Clarissa and James Valentine Tarte, who had settled in Taveuni in 1868. He was educated at Brighton Grammar School in Melbourne and then worked for the Imperial Insurance Company for a year. He married the daughter of senior civil servant James Thomas. He did not complete a full term, with William Edmund Willoughby-Tottenham elected to replace him in October 1922.
He died in Melbourne in 1936.
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Fijian planter and politician
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Herbert Valentine Tarte was born in 1876 in Fiji, Vatu Wiri.
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Herbert Valentine Tarte died in 1936 in Melbourne.
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