Heaton Rhodes
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.jpg) Heaton Rhodes in 1915 | |
| Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Ellesmere | |
| In office 6 December 1899 – 14 October 1925 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 27 February 1861 Purau, Banks Peninsula |
| Died | 30 July 1956 (aged 95) Taitapu, Banks Peninsula |
| Relations | Robert Heaton Rhodes (father) |
Sir Robert Heaton Rhodes .
Life
Rhodes was born in
called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1887.[2]
He then returned to New Zealand, joined the
New Zealand Territorial Force. After retirement he was Honorary Colonel
of the 1st Mounted Rifles.
| Years | Term | Electorate | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1899–1902 | 14th | Ellesmere | Independent | ||
| 1902–1905 | 15th | Ellesmere | Independent | ||
| 1905–1908 | 16th | Ellesmere | Independent | ||
| 1908–1909 | 17th | Ellesmere | Independent | ||
| 1909–1911 | Changed allegiance to: | Reform | |||
| 1911–1914 | 18th | Ellesmere | Reform | ||
| 1914–1919 | 19th | Ellesmere | Reform | ||
| 1919–1922 | 20th | Ellesmere | Reform | ||
| 1922–1925 | 21st | Ellesmere | Reform | ||
Rhodes represented the Ellesmere electorate in the House of Representatives from 1899 to 1925, during which time he joined the Reform Party. He retired in 1925 and was appointed to the Legislative Council, in which he served until 1941, with a short break between 1932 and 1934.
He served as
Minister for Public Health, Hospitals and Tourist Resorts in the Cabinet from 1912 to 1915, when he was appointed Special Commissioner to Egypt and Galilee to report on the conditions of New Zealand troops serving there. In 1916 he moved to Europe as Commissioner of the New Zealand Red Cross
.
In 1920 he returned to New Zealand and was appointed
Victoria League for Commonwealth Friendship
in Canterbury in the 1930s.
He bred pedigree cattle at
daffodils
.
Philately
Rhodes was an advanced
philatelist. He had a large collection of New Zealand Chalon head postage stamps. He was President of the Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand and signed the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1949.[3]
Honours and awards
For his role as the commissioner of the New Zealand Red Cross, Rhodes was appointed
Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) in July 1927.[5] He was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal in 1935.[6]
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Great Britain)- Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur(France)
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Footnotes
- OCLC 1030612754.)
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link - ^ Rice, Geoffrey W. "Rhodes, Robert Heaton". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 25 June 2012.
- ^ Background notes on The Roll of Distinguished Philatelists September 2011, Roll of Distinguished Philatelists Trust, London, 2011. Archived here.
- ^ "No. 31712". The London Gazette (4th supplement). 1 January 2020. p. 6.
- ^ "No. 33292". The London Gazette. 8 July 1927. pp. 4403–4404.
- ^ "Official jubilee medals". The Evening Post. Vol. CXIX, no. 105. 6 May 1935. p. 4. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
References
- Obituary, The Times, 1 August 1956
Further reading
- Commemoration service in connection with the unveiling of a memorial tablet by Colonel, the Hon. Sir R. Heaton Rhodes ... in the Tai Tapu Methodist Church on Sunday, 14th April, 1940 at 3 p.m., Christchurch, [N.Z.]: Bascands, 1940
- Rice, Geoffrey W. (2001), The annotated biography of the Hon. Sir R. Heaton Rhodes (1861-1956): K.B.E., K.C.V.O., M.L.C., T.D., M.A., Chevalier, Legion d'Honneur (France), Knight Commander & Bailiff Grand Cross for the Venerable Order of St. John, Christchurch, N.Z.: Hawthorne Press, ISBN 0-473-07937-2
- Rice, Geoffrey W. (2001), Heaton Rhodes of Otahuna: the illustrated biography, Christchurch, [N.Z.]: Canterbury University Press, ISBN 1-877257-03-6
- Rice, Geoffrey W. (2008), Heaton Rhodes of Otahuna: the illustrated biography (2nd ed.), Christchurch, [N.Z.]: Canterbury University Press, ISBN 978-1-877257-65-0
- Taylor, Clyde R. H. (1929), The Gothic beauties and history of the Canterbury provincial buildings, Christchurch, N.Z.: Simpson & Williams [A Preface by Rhodes appears in this and subsequent [2nd, 1941 (published by Canterbury Provincial Buildings Board); and 3rd, 1950 (same publisher as 2nd)] editions of this volume.]
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