Thomas Otto Bishop

Thomas Otto Bishop

Hon. Thomas Otto Bishop MLC (1877 - 1952) was appointed to the New Zealand Legislative Council in 1943, and was Speaker from 1950 until it was abolished in 1951 by the First National Government.

He emigrated from Nottingham, England to Otago, where he qualified as an Associate in the Otago School of Mines. He joined the civil service for ten years, becoming Undersecretary of the Mines Department in 1918. He resigned and became Secretary of the New Zealand Employers’ Association.

Bishop was married with three daughters, and died in Lower Hutt.


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