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7 unusual facts about Richard Seddon


Harry Holland

He has a memorial in the Bolton Street Cemetery in Wellington, near that to Richard Seddon.

King Dick

Richard Seddon (1845–1906), Prime Minister of New Zealand 1893-1906

New Zealand general election, 1905

In 1905 a progressive faction within the Liberal Party started to form in opposition to Liberal leader Richard Seddon's policies.

Richard Seddon

After a short time working on his grandfather's farm at Barrow Nook Hall, Seddon was an apprentice at Daglish's Foundry in St Helens.

He is also noted for his support of New Zealand's own "imperial" designs – Seddon believed that New Zealand should play a major role in the Pacific Islands as a "Britain of the South".

He is regarded by some, including historian Keith Sinclair, as one of New Zealand's greatest political leaders.

Seddon, Victoria

The suburb was earlier known as Belgravia but is now called Seddon after Richard Seddon, the New Zealand Prime Minister from 1893 to 1906, who resided there before he moved to Bendigo and later to New Zealand.


James Frederick Arnold

At the 1905 election, Arnold stressed his Independent credentials and said that the "present administration i.e. Premier Richard Seddon's Liberal Government were not all they should be", favoured the elective executive bill, and held himself at liberty to compel the Ministry to reconstruct.

William Thomas Wood

Wood was endorsed by Prime Minister Richard Seddon as the government candidate for the Palmerston (now Palmerston North) electorate in the 1899 general election, a measure by which Seddon demonstrated his opposition to Frederick Pirani.


see also

Seddon

Seddon, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, named after Richard Seddon