Sir John Hall (c. December 18, 1824 – June 25, 1907) was born in
Kingston upon HullKingston upon Hull , almost invariably referred to as Hull, is a city and unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is located 25 miles from the North Sea on the River Hull at its junction with the Humber estuary...
,
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, and later became the
Prime MinisterThe Prime Minister of New Zealand is New Zealand's head of government consequent on being the leader of the party or coalition with majority support in the Parliament of New Zealand...
of
New ZealandNew Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous smaller islands, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands. The indigenous Māori named New Zealand Aotearoa, commonly translated as The Land of the Long White Cloud...
.
After reading a book on sheep farming, Hall emigrated to New Zealand, on
Samarang, arriving July 31, 1852. He developed one of the first large scale sheep farming runs in Canterbury.
In 1853, he was elected to the
Canterbury Provincial CouncilThe Canterbury Province was a province of New Zealand from 1853 until the abolition of provincial government in 1876. On the east coast the province was bounded by the Hurunui River in the north and the Waitaki River in the south...
. He would later rise through the ranks of magistrate, town council Chairman (effectively mayor), and Postmaster-General.
On October 8, 1879, he was appointed the Premier of New Zealand, where his ministry carried out reforms of the male suffrage (extending voting rights) and dealt with a conflict with Māori at
ParihakaParihaka is a small community in Taranaki region, New Zealand, located between Mount Taranaki and the Tasman Sea. In the 1870s and 1880s the settlement, then reputed to be the largest Māori village in New Zealand, became the centre of a major campaign of non-violent resistance to European...
, although poor health caused him to resign the position less than three years later.
Taking an active interest in Women's rights.
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Sir John Hall (c. December 18, 1824 – June 25, 1907) was born in
Kingston upon HullKingston upon Hull , almost invariably referred to as Hull, is a city and unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is located 25 miles from the North Sea on the River Hull at its junction with the Humber estuary...
,
EnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, and later became the
Prime MinisterThe Prime Minister of New Zealand is New Zealand's head of government consequent on being the leader of the party or coalition with majority support in the Parliament of New Zealand...
of
New ZealandNew Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous smaller islands, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands. The indigenous Māori named New Zealand Aotearoa, commonly translated as The Land of the Long White Cloud...
.
Migration to New Zealand
After reading a book on sheep farming, Hall emigrated to New Zealand, on
Samarang, arriving July 31, 1852. He developed one of the first large scale sheep farming runs in Canterbury.
In 1853, he was elected to the
Canterbury Provincial CouncilThe Canterbury Province was a province of New Zealand from 1853 until the abolition of provincial government in 1876. On the east coast the province was bounded by the Hurunui River in the north and the Waitaki River in the south...
. He would later rise through the ranks of magistrate, town council Chairman (effectively mayor), and Postmaster-General.
Premier of New Zealand
On October 8, 1879, he was appointed the Premier of New Zealand, where his ministry carried out reforms of the male suffrage (extending voting rights) and dealt with a conflict with Māori at
ParihakaParihaka is a small community in Taranaki region, New Zealand, located between Mount Taranaki and the Tasman Sea. In the 1870s and 1880s the settlement, then reputed to be the largest Māori village in New Zealand, became the centre of a major campaign of non-violent resistance to European...
, although poor health caused him to resign the position less than three years later.
Women's suffrage
Taking an active interest in Women's rights. In the final years of his life, he moved the Parliamentary Bill that gave women in New Zealand the vote (1893), (the first country in the world to do so), he became the honorary
Mayor of ChristchurchThe Mayor of Christchurch is the head of the municipal government of Christchurch, New Zealand, and presides over the Christchurch City Council. The Mayor is directly elected using a First Past the Post electoral system.The current Mayor is Bob Parker....
, for an exhibition, where he died in 1907. One of his granddaughters,
Mary Grigg Mary Victoria Cracroft Grigg, Lady Polson, MBE was a New Zealand politician of the National Party.She represented the Mid-Canterbury electorate in Parliament from 1942 after the death of her husband Arthur Nattle Grigg who she had married in 1920, and who had held the seat from 1938...
, later became an MP for the
National PartyThe New Zealand National Party is the largest party in the New Zealand House of Representatives and in November 2008 formed a minority government with support from three minor parties...
.
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