Portrait of W. S. Moorhouse by Walter Armiger Bowring, circa 1900
2nd Superintendent of Canterbury Province
In office 24 Oct 1857 – Feb 1863
In office 30 May 1866 – May 1868
3rd Mayor of Wellington
In office 1875–1875
Preceded by
Charles Borlase
Succeeded by
William Hutchison
Personal details
Born
December 1825 Yorkshire, England
Died
15 September 1881 Wellington, New Zealand
Spouse
Jane Ann(e) Collins
Relations
William Barnard Rhodes (brother-in-law) John Studholme (brother-in-law) Thomas Henry Wigley (brother-in-law)
William Sefton Moorhouse (c. 1825 – 15 September 1881) was a British-born New Zealand politician. He was the second Superintendent of Canterbury Province.
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WilliamSeftonMoorhouse (c. 1825 – 15 September 1881) was a British-born New Zealand politician. He was the second Superintendent of Canterbury Province...
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founding fathers (Samuel Bealey, John and William Deans, James FitzGerald, WilliamSeftonMoorhouse, and William Rolleston), with the exception of Harper...
piecemeal closure of the branch line network up to the 1960s. WilliamSeftonMoorhouse, Superintendent of the Canterbury Province in 1857–63 and 1866–68...
The inaugural mayoral election was held in 1874 resulting in WilliamSeftonMoorhouse being the first mayor to be elected directly by voters. Since then...
Mount Sefton. An early resident, Charles French Pemberton, named the area, whilst the geologist Julius von Haast named the mountain after WilliamSefton Moorhouse...
Wellington to be conducted by public vote. The election was won by WilliamSeftonMoorhouse, who defeated former mayor Joseph Dransfield. Prior conventions...
Zealand painter, designer and workers' advocate. A supporter of WilliamSeftonMoorhouse, he unsuccessfully stood for various elections in Christchurch...
property, he married Sarah Ann Moorhouse (c. 1837–1914), a sister of WilliamSeftonMoorhouse and Lucy Ellen Sykes Moorhouse who married John Studholme....
electorate against WilliamSeftonMoorhouse, the incumbent for the seat and Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury. White and Moorhouse received 51 and...
Amongst the early owners of Ohinetahi were Canterbury pioneer WilliamSeftonMoorhouse and Thomas Potts, New Zealand's first conservationist. Sir Miles...
the third Superintendent, a role which he held to 1866. In 1863 WilliamSeftonMoorhouse was in financial crisis, and put in Bealey as Superintendent instead...
league footballer, and also played for Knottingley Rockware ARLFC WilliamSeftonMoorhouse, a New Zealand politician Graham Steadman, Former York, Featherstone...
(Middlesbrough) and John Biggs (Leicester). In New Zealand, he commemorated WilliamSeftonMoorhouse in Christchurch. He is also remembered for his classical friezes...
met broad gauge. WilliamSeftonMoorhouse MHR, former superintendent of Canterbury Province and advocate for broad gauge, and William Rolleston MHR, at...
the transport problems. In 1858 the provincial superintendent WilliamSeftonMoorhouse announced that a tunnel would be dug between Lyttelton and Christchurch...
exacerbated the problem to the point where, in 1858, Superintendent WilliamSeftonMoorhouse prevailed upon the Provincial Council to consider the matter again...
younger brothers Edward and Jim and younger sister Mary. Phoebe married William Cunliffe on 9 May 1863 at Holy Trinity Church Eccleston. Their son Bill...
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to 1862, when he resigned. The resulting by-election was won by WilliamSeftonMoorhouse. Hall died at his residence in Christchurch's Park Terrace on 27...
superintendency. He left provincial politics on the election of WilliamSeftonMoorhouse as superintendent in that year. Instead, he stood in the newly...
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