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    Richard John Seddon PC (22 June 1845 – 10 June 1906) was a New Zealand politician who served as the 15th premier (prime minister) of New Zealand from...
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    title remained in use almost exclusively for more than 30 years, until Richard Seddon changed it to "prime minister" during his tenure in the office; he used...
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    "premier". That title remained in use for more than 30 years, until Richard Seddon changed it to "prime minister" in 1900 during his tenure in the office...
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  • Richard Seddon (11 February 1825 – 13 July 1884) was an English cricketer who played in first-class cricket matches for Nottinghamshire, Cambridge University...
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  • Kenneth Richard Seddon OBE (1950–2018) was a chemist specialising in ionic liquids. Seddon was born in Liverpool in 1950. He studied chemistry at Liverpool...
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    setting, affording a picnic atmosphere for spectators. Seddon Park was named after Richard Seddon the longest-serving Prime Minister of New Zealand. The...
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    the first organised political party. The Liberal Government, led by Richard Seddon for most of its period in office, passed many important social and economic...
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    The town was named for a former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Richard Seddon. Seddon has been close to the epicentres of several significant earthquakes...
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    discredit Democrats, the media, and liberal groups. Until mid-2018, Richard Seddon, a former British spy, headed the field operations for the plots and...
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    Finance in the succeeding ministry of Richard Seddon. Ward became Prime Minister on 6 August 1906, following Seddon's death two months earlier. In his first...
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    the Liberal Party. He was interim prime minister from the death of Richard Seddon to the return from overseas of Joseph Ward. Hall-Jones was a mild mannered...
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  • Party. The position went to Westland MP and incumbent deputy leader Richard Seddon. John Ballance underwent bowel surgery in 1893, but was clearly dying...
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    Liberal Party set out to change that by a policy it called "populism". Richard Seddon had proclaimed the goal as early as 1884: "It is the rich and the poor;...
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  • parliament, this bill was promptly defeated. In 1897, the current premier, Richard Seddon, who had until this point been unsupportive of the university project...
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    of Florida (2011–2019) Richard Seddon (1845–1906), New Zealand politician, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1893–1906) Richard Gotabhaya Senanayake (1911–1970)...
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    Zealand Parliament. The election was won by the Liberal Party, and Richard Seddon became prime minister. 1893 was the year universal suffrage was granted...
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    leader of the conservative opposition to the Liberal ministries of Richard Seddon and Joseph Ward. Massey became the first Reform Party Prime Minister...
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    Ballance died in office in 1893. He was succeeded as head of government by Richard Seddon. The eldest son of Samuel Ballance, a tenant farmer, and Mary McNiece...
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  • becoming Prime Minister, founds the Liberal Party. It is later led by Richard Seddon and Joseph Ward, among others, although some historians contend that...
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    translate 'hear', rather than the modern "whakarongona". In 1897, Premier Richard Seddon presented a copy of words and music to Queen Victoria. The song became...
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    two (Ballance and Seddon) dying in office: Prime Ministers of the First Liberal Government John Ballance served 1891-1893 Richard Seddon served 1893-1906...
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    This statue of Richard Seddon is in Hokitika, on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand. The statue is situated on Sewell Street, outside the...
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  • Wayne Reid Richard Seddon Carl Ditterich Carl Ditterich Laurie Fowler Brent Crosswell (31) Stephen Bickford 1981 12th‡ Billy Snedden Richard Seddon Ron Barassi...
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    Agent General. During the premierships of John Ballance (1891–93) and Richard Seddon (1893–1906) he served as Minister of Labour (1892–96), Minister of Education...
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    Richard Seddon, and succeeded his father as MP for Westland following his death in 1906. Seddon was born in Kumara in 1884. His parents were Richard and...
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    Belgravia, Seddon was officially declared a suburb in 1906, named after Richard Seddon, the Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1893 to 1906, who resided there...
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    first political party, the Liberals. Their leader, former gold miner Richard Seddon from Lancashire, was premier from 1893 to 1906. The Liberals introduced...
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  • (February 9, 2018). "John Mahoney, Hannah Hauxwell, Professor Kenneth Richard Seddon OBE, Sir John Cotterell, Naomi Parker Fraley". Last Word. 23:05 minutes...
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  • player Steve Seddon (born 1997), English footballer Thomas Seddon (1884–1972), New Zealand politician, Richard Seddon's son Thomas Seddon (1821–1856),...
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  • Bennington, reportedly named him after the former New Zealand Prime Minister Richard Seddon, whom they admired for his efforts to benefit working class New Zealanders...
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