Trevor Davey

Trevor Davey (5 July 1926 – 13 February 2012) was a Member of Parliament from Gisborne in the North Island of New Zealand who represented the Labour Party.

Biography

New Zealand Parliament
Years	Term	Electorate		Party
1972–1975	37th	Gisborne		Labour

Davey was born in Didsbury, Lancashire, England, in 1926, the son of H. W. Davey. He received his education at Chorlton High School.[1] Davey was a member of the 6th Airborne Division from 1946 to 1948.[1] He married Mavis Birch Baxter in Manchester in 1949, the daughter of H. A. Baxter. They had one son.[1]

He was the managing director of Queen's Hall, Leeds between 1956 and 1966.[1] Davey emigrated to New Zealand with his wife and son in 1966.[2]

Davey served on the Gisborne City Council from 1971 to 1974 where he was a member of the council's works, library, town planning and airport committees.[3] He represented the Gisborne electorate in the New Zealand House of Representatives from 1972, when he beat the incumbent, Esme Tombleson, the first woman who had represented Gisborne in Parliament.[4][5] At the next election in 1975, he was defeated by National's Bob Bell.[4] He was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal for service to the community.[6]

Davey was a governor of both Gisborne Boys' and Gisborne Girls' High Schools. He was on the executive of the New Zealand Red Cross (1972–1973).[1]

References

1. Traue, James Edward, ed. (1978). Who's Who in New Zealand (11th ed.). Wellington: Reed. p. 95.
2. "New Zealand, Archives New Zealand, passenger lists, 1839–1973". FamilySearch. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
3. "21 new members in House". The Press. 27 November 1972. p. 3.
4. Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand parliamentary record, 1840–1984 (4 ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. pp. 183, 192. OCLC 154283103.
5. Falconer, Phoebe (7 August 2010). "From stage to politics on her own terms". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
6. Taylor, Alister; Coddington, Deborah (1994). Honoured by the Queen – New Zealand. Auckland: New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa. p. 116. ISBN 0-908578-34-2.

• Wood, G. Anthony (ed.) (1996), Ministers and Members in the New Zealand Parliament, Dunedin, [N.Z.]: Otago University PressCS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)