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Stuart Sidey

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Thomas Kay Stuart Sidey CMG (8 October 1908 – 28 October 2007) was the Mayor of Dunedin, New Zealand from 1959 to 1965 for the Citizens party, and was on the Dunedin City Council from 1947 to 1983.[1] He stood for Parliament three times; in the 1938 election, he was defeated by Gervan McMillan in the Dunedin West electorate.[2]

Sidey was a Dunedin lawyer, educated at Otago Boys' High School and the University of Otago. He was on the Otago University Council for 34 years. In World War II he was a Major in the New Zealand Army in the Pacific. He ran the Wickliffe Press in Dunedin and bred racehorses.[1]

In the 1968 Queen's Birthday Honours Sidey was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George for services to the community, especially to local government.[3]

He was brought up in Corstorphine House. He was the only child of Sir Thomas Sidey, a Dunedin Member of Parliament, cabinet minister and lawyer. He married Beryl Thomas in 1933; they had one son and one daughter.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Obituary". Otago Daily Times. 3 November 2007. p. 34.
  2. ^ "The General Election, 1938". National Library. 1939. p. 2. Retrieved 8 February 2012.
  3. ^ "No. 44602". The London Gazette (invalid |supp= (help)). 8 June 1968.
Political offices
Preceded by Mayor of Dunedin
1959–1965
Succeeded by
Academic offices
Preceded by Chancellor of the University of Otago
1970–1976
Succeeded by