William Polson

Sir William John Polson KCMG (6 June 1875 – 8 October 1960) was a New Zealand politician, first as an Independent and then in the National Party. He joined the National Party on its formation in 1936, and "later acted effectively as Holland's deputy".[1]

Parliament of New Zealand
Years Term Electorate Party
1928–31 23rd Stratford Independent
1931–35 24th Stratford Independent
1935–38 25th Stratford Independent
1936 Changed allegiance to: National
1938–43 26th Stratford National
1943–46 27th Stratford National

He represented the electorate of Stratford in Parliament from 1928 to 1946, when he retired.[2] He was appointed to the Legislative Council on 15 March 1950, as a member of the suicide squad which was to vote the Council out of existence.[3]

Polson was born in Wanganui, and educated at Wanganui Collegiate School. In 1943 he married Mary Grigg, who had represented the Mid-Canterbury electorate from 1942, after her MP husband Arthur Grigg, then a major in the NZEF, was killed in Libya in 1941.

In 1935, Polson was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.[4] In the 1951 King's Birthday Honours he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George for public and political services.[5]

Notes

  1. ↑ Gustafson 1986, p. 337.
  2. ↑ Wilson 1985, p. 227.
  3. ↑ Wilson 1985, p. 162.
  4. ↑ "Official jubilee medals". Evening Post. CXIX (105). 6 May 1935. p. 4. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
  5. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 39245. p. 3099. 7 June 1951. Retrieved 15 May 2014.

References

New Zealand Parliament
Preceded by
Edward Walter		 Member of Parliament for Stratford
1928–1946 		Vacant
Constituency abolished, recreated in 1954
Title next held by
Thomas Murray


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