- Ormond Wilson
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(George Hamish) Ormond Wilson CMG (18 November 1907 - 17 April 1988) was a New Zealand Member of Parliament, author and Chairman of the Historic Places Trust.
Member of Parliament
Ormond Wilson represented the Rangitikei electorate (1935–38) and the Palmerston North electorate (1946–49) in the New Zealand House of Representatives (see Wilson & Wood). He was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977 for services to the community (Taylor, p. 397).
Wilson was Chairman of the Historic Places Trust 1958-70, Chairman Board of Trustees National Gallery and Museum 1975-79 and published "An Outsider Looks Back...Reflections on Experience" in 1982.
Further reading
- The New Zealand Parliamentary Record: 1840-1984 by J.O. Wilson (1985, Government Printer, Wellington)
- Ministers and Members in the New Zealand Parliament Edited by G.A. Wood (1996, Otago University Press, Dunedin)
Categories:- New Zealand Labour Party MPs
- Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
- New Zealand farmers
- New Zealand writers
- 1907 births
- 1988 deaths
- New Zealand Labour Party politician stubs
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