George Allen (New Zealand politician)

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.

↑ Sudden death of Mr G Allen, Evening Post, Volume LVII, Issue 109, 10 May 1899, Page 6
↑ Death, Evening Post, Volume LVII, Issue 110, 11 May 1899, Page 6
↑ Local and general, Evening Post, Volume LVII, Issue 121, 24 May 1899, Page 4
↑ Scholefield, Guy (1950) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1949 (3rd ed.). Wellington: Govt. Printer. p. 237.

Political offices
Preceded by Joseph Dransfield	Mayor of Wellington 1879	Succeeded by William Hutchison

Mayors of Wellington City

Mayors

elected by councillors	George Hunter William Guyton Joseph Dransfield Charles Borlase William Sefton Moorhouse

elected at large	William Hutchison Joseph Dransfield George Allen William Hutchison George Fisher Arthur Winton Brown Samuel Brown John Duthie Charles Johnston Arthur Winton Brown Francis Bell Alfred Brandon Charles Luke George Fisher Francis Bell John Blair John Aitken Thomas William Hislop Alfred Newman Thomas Wilford David McLaren John Luke Robert Wright Charles Norwood George Troup Thomas Hislop Will Appleton Rob Macalister Frank Kitts Michael Fowler Ian Lawrence James Belich Fran Wilde Mark Blumsky Kerry Prendergast Celia Wade-Brown Justin Lester

Mayoral elections

Annual term	1875 1876† 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898

Biennial term	1899 1901 1903† 1905 1907 1909 1910‡ 1911† 1912‡ 1913 1915 1917† 1919 1921 1923 1925 1927 1929 1931 1933†

Triennial term	1935 1938 1941 1944 1947 1950 1953 1956 1959 1962 1965 1968 1971 1974 1977 1980 1983 1986 1989 1992 1995 1998 2001 2004 2007 2010 2013 2016

† Elected unopposed · ‡ By-election

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