Thomas Field

Thomas Andrew Hemming Field (1859 – 27 October 1937) was a New Zealand politician of the Reform Party.

Early life and family Field was born in Long Gully, Colony of Victoria, in 1859, the son of Thomas Field, The family emigrated to New Zealand in 1862, settling in Nelson, He married Jessie Black at Nelson on 24 May 1881, and they had two sons and two daughters. Their eldest son Arthur Nelson Field was a journalist and right-wing author.

In 1885, Field became one of the first cyclists to ride the length of New Zealand. In 1911 Field defeated Thomas Pettit 1231 votes to 1047. Field did not stand in 1913.

He held the Nelson electorate for one parliamentary term, from 1914 to 1919, after defeating Harry Atmore in 1914, but Atmore won the seat back in 1919, and held it for 27 more years.

Field also served as a member of the Nelson Hospital Board, president of both the Nelson Chamber of Commerce and the Nelson Philosophical Institute, and a trustee of the Cawthron Institute. He was survived by his wife and his four children.