About William Postlethwaite
Lived 1829 – 1908 (aged 78). William Postlethwaite was a New Zealand politician.
William Postlethwaite (17 September 1829 – 9 April 1908) was an English-born Member of Parliament representing the Canterbury region of New Zealand.
Postlethwaite was born in Broughton, Lancashire, the son of Robert and Agnes Postlethwaite. He was tutored by Branwell Brontë, brother to the Brontë sisters. He married Annie Camilla Brisco, daughter of Sir Robert Brisco, 3rd Baronet, in 1859. He succeeded to his uncle's Oaks estate in Millom, Cumberland, but in an unusual move for landed gentry, moved to New Zealand in 1878.
Postlethwaite represented the Geraldine electorate from 1881 to 1884, when he retired. He was an independent politician.
He then moved to California in 1891, living as a farmer in Lindsay, but returned to England, where he died in 1908.
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English-born Member of Parliament of New Zealand (1829-1908)
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William Postlethwaite was born on 17 September 1829 in Broughton.
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William Postlethwaite died on 9 April 1908 in Bootle.
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