Duncan MacIntyre (New Zealand)

Infobox_Prime Minister|name=Duncan MacIntyre


order=8th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand
|term_start=4 March 1981
term_end=15 March 1984
primeminister=Robert Muldoon
predecessor=Brian Talboys
successor=Jim McLay
birth_date=1915
birth_place= NZL
death_date=2001
death_place=
spouse=
party=National
constituency=East Cape
religion=

Brigadier General Duncan MacIntyre, CMG DSO OBE ED PC, (1915 - 2001) was a New Zealand politician of the National Party. He served as Deputy Prime Minister from 1981 to 1984 under Prime Minister Robert Muldoon.

He represented the Hastings electorate in Parliament from 1960 to 1972, when he was defeated. With Rob Muldoon and Peter Gordon he was one of the three Young Turks of the National Party who entered Parliament in 1960.

In 1961 he was one of ten National MPs to vote with the Opposition and remove capital punishment for murder from the Crimes Bill that the Second National Government had introduced.

He then represented the Bay of Plenty electorate in Parliament from 1975 to 1978, and the East Cape electorate from 1978 to 1984, when he retired. His son, Hamish MacIntyre, was elected to Parliament in 1990.

He was a Cabinet Minister, and was Minister of Māori Affairs 1969-72 and 1975-78.

He was made a Privy Councillor in 1980. He had served in World War II, and was awarded the D.S.O.

References

"New Zealand Parliamentary Record 1840-1984" by J. O. Wilson (1985, Government Printer, Wellington)