About Thomas Kelly
Lived 1830 – 1921 (aged 90–91). Thomas Kelly was a New Zealand politician.
Thomas Kelly (1830 – 20 September 1921) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament in Taranaki, New Zealand.
He represented the Town of New Plymouth electorate from to 1879, and then the (renamed) New Plymouth electorate from to 1884, when he was defeated.
He then became a member of the Legislative Council from 1892 to 1913.
Kelly died at his home in Bell Block on 20 September 1921, and was buried at Te Henui Cemetery.
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New Zealand politician (1830–1921)
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Thomas Kelly was born in 1830.
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Thomas Kelly died in 1921.
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