About Irving Carruthers
Lived 1888 – 1974 (aged 85). Irving Carruthers was a politician.
Irving Hetherington Carruthers (27 October 1884 – 5 July 1974) was a Western Samoan businessman and politician.
Biography Carruthers was born in Samoa in 1884, one of five children of Richard and Matua Carruthers. His father was a Scottish solicitor who had immigrated to Samoa from Melbourne in Australia, and worked for Robert Louis Stevenson. leasing a cocoa plantation in Malaedono. He became a member of the committee of the Chamber of Commerce and the Planters Association.
Carruthers contested the 1932 elections to the Legislative Council with the support of the Chamber of Commerce and the Planters' Association. He was elected alongside his brother-in-law Alan Cobcroft.
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Irving Carruthers was born on 27 October 1888 in Samoa.
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Irving Carruthers died on 5 July 1974.
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Irving Carruthers was a politician.
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