About Thomas Tanner
Lived 1830 – 1918 (aged 87–88). Thomas Tanner was a New Zealand politician.
Thomas Tanner (1830 – 22 July 1918) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament in New Zealand.
Born in Wiltshire, England, in 1830, Tanner arrived in New Zealand in 1850, and took up a large farm in Hawke's Bay in 1853.
Tanner was a member of the Hawke's Bay Provincial Council from 1867 to 1875. He represented the Hawkes Bay parliamentary electorate of Waipawa from 1887 to 1890, when he retired and William Cowper Smith was re-elected to the seat; Smith had held Waipawa until 1887, when he was elected for the new electorate of Woodville (which only existed from 1887 to 1890). He contested the in the electorate and of the three candidates, he came last.
He died at Havelock North on 22 July 1918.
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New Zealand politician (1830–1918)
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Thomas Tanner was born in 1830.
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