Lindsay Buick
Thomas Lindsay Buick CMG (13 May 1866 – 22 February 1938) was a Liberal Member of Parliament for Wairau, New Zealand, a journalist and a historian. He published under the name T. Lindsay Buick.
Lindsay Buick | |
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Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Wairau | |
In office 5 December 1890 – 19 December 1896 | |
Preceded by | Henry Dodson |
Succeeded by | Charles H. Mills |
Personal details | |
Born | 13 May 1865 Oamaru, New Zealand |
Died | 22 February 1938 Wellington, New Zealand |
Political party | Liberal |
Spouse(s) | Mary Fitzgerald |
Early life
Buick was born in Oamaru in 1865 [1] or 1866.[2] His parents emigrated from England to Port Chalmers in 1860. Lindsay Buick received his education at schools in Oamaru and moved to Blenheim in 1884 to work as a carpenter. Although he had no relation to Ireland or Catholicism, he joined the Irish National League "purely as a lover of liberty and justice", and in 1889 he embarked on a speaker tour. He was also active in the temperance movement.[3]
Buick married Mary Fitzgerald on 8 January 1891 at Blenheim; they were to have no children.[3]
Member of Parliament
New Zealand Parliament | ||||
Years | Term | Electorate | Party | |
1890–1893 | 11th | Wairau | Liberal–Labour | |
1893–1896 | 12th | Wairau | Liberal–Labour |
Buick represented the Wairau electorate in the New Zealand House of Representatives from 1890 to 1896, when he was defeated.[2][4] The 1896 general election was contested by Buick and Charles H. Mills, who received 2014 and 2072 votes, respectively. Mills thus succeeded Buick.[5] He was a temperance advocate and supporter of Irish Home Rule.[6]
From 1893 until 1894 he was the Liberal Party's junior whip.[7]
Years later, in July 1904 he unsuccessfully contested Pahiatua by-election as the official Liberal candidate.[3]
Historical work
Buick wrote numerous works on the pre-European and early contact history New Zealand, and two books on music. His The Treaty of Waitangi: or, How New Zealand became a British Colony (1916) remained the only substantial work on the Treaty until the late 1980s.
Later, he was owner/publisher of the Dannevirke Advocate.[8]
Buick was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 1933 Birthday Honours.[9] In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.[10]
Published work
- Old Marlborough: or, The Story of a Province (1900)
- Old Manawatu: or, The Wild Days of the West (1903)
- Old New Zealander: or, Te Rauparaha, the Napoleon of the South (1911)
- Letters from Abroad (1914)
- The Treaty of Waitangi: or, How New Zealand became a British Colony (1916)
- New Zealand's First War: or, The Rebellion of Hone Heke (1926)
- Romance of the Gramophone (1927)
- French at Akaroa: An Adventure in Colonization (1928)
- Jubilee of the Port of Wellington, 1880-1930 (1930)
- Mystery of the Moa: New Zealand's Avian Giant (1931)
- British Residency at Waitangi (1932)
- Waitangi: Ninety-four Years After (1934)
- Old British Residency at the Bay of Islands (1934)
- Centenary of a Flag: New Zealand's Old National Ensign (1934)
- Elijah: The Story of Mendelssohn’s Oratorio (1935)
- The Discovery of Dinornis: The Story of a Man, a Bone, and a Bird (1936)
- Moa-Hunters of New Zealand: Sportsmen of the Stone Age (1936)
Notes
- Who's Who in New Zealand and the Western Pacific.
- Wilson 1985, p. 186.
- Traue, James Edward. "Buick, Thomas Lindsay". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 December 2011.
- Hamer 1988, p. 361.
- "The Elections". Hawera & Normanby Star. XXXIII (3416). 7 December 1896. p. 2. Retrieved 24 July 2011.
- "New Member". Evening Star. 6 December 1890 – via Papers Past.
- Wilson 1985, pp. 279.
- Hamer, p.312
- "No. 33946". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 June 1933. p. 3803.
- "Official jubilee medals". The Evening Post. 6 May 1935. p. 4. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
References
- The New Zealand Liberals: the Years of Power 1891-1912 by David Hamer (1988, Auckland University Press, Auckland)
- Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. OCLC 154283103.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
External links
- Works by Lindsay Buick at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Lindsay Buick at Internet Archive
- "Prime Minister's tribute". The Evening Post. 23 February 1938 – via Papers Past.
- "Death". The Evening Post. 23 February 1938 – via Papers Past.
- "Tribute". The Evening Post. 23 February 1938 – via Papers Past.
- "Obituary (says born 1866)". Evening Star. 23 February 1938 – via Papers Past.
- "Obituary". The Press in Papers Past. 23 February 1938.
New Zealand Parliament | ||
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Preceded by Henry Dodson |
Member of Parliament for Wairau 1890–1896 |
Succeeded by Charles H. Mills |