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George Allen (New Zealand politician)

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Origins
Civic service
References

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2016}}{{Use New Zealand English|date=November 2016}}George Allen JP (1814 – 10 May 1899) was Mayor of Wellington, New Zealand, for three weeks in 1879.^[1]

Origins

Allen was originally a Deal boatbuilder. He migrated to Wellington on the Catherine Stuart Forbes in 1841. Apart from living in the Hutt for eight years he spent all his life in Wellington. He was a boat builder by profession and had a business in Thorndon. He was also the Chairman of Directors of the Trust and Loan Company until his death.

He died on 10 May 1899 aged almost 85 at his residence in Wellington after a heart attack.^[2] Allen was a member of the Court Sir George Grey AOF.^[3] He was married and had five daughters and four sons. His wife died in 1888.

Civic service

He was a member of the Wellington Provincial Council from 1861 to 1865 for the City of Wellington electorate.^[4] From 1876 to 1883, and again from 1887 to 1888, Allen served as a Wellington City Councillor. For a brief period in 1879 he was acting mayor. He was noted as being an attentive and zealous councillor. He was also a hospital trustee.

References

No Mean City by Stuart Perry (1969, Wellington City Council) includes a paragraph and a portrait or photo for each mayor.

1. ^Sudden death of Mr G Allen, Evening Post, Volume LVII, Issue 109, 10 May 1899, Page 6
2. ^Death, Evening Post, Volume LVII, Issue 110, 11 May 1899, Page 6
3. ^Local and general, Evening Post, Volume LVII, Issue 121, 24 May 1899, Page 4
4. ^{{cite book |last= Scholefield |first= Guy |title= New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1949 |authorlink=Guy Scholefield |edition=3rd |origyear= First ed. published 1913 |year= 1950 |publisher= Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |page=237}}

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