About Joseph Witheford
Lived 1847 – 1931 (aged 83–84). Joseph Witheford was a New Zealand politician.
Joseph Howard Witheford (1848 – 30 October 1931) was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament in Auckland, New Zealand.
Biography He was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England, in 1848.
Witheford was elected to the City of Auckland electorate in a by-election on 27 April 1900, and held his electorate to 1905. In that year, the multi-member electorate was replaced by several single-member electorates, and Witheford retired from parliament.
Witheford served as mayor of Birkenhead from 1901 to 1905.
He died on 30 October 1931 and was buried in the Anglican section of Pompallier Cemetery, Birkenhead.
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Joseph Witheford was born in 1847 in Bromsgrove.
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