William Cutten

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use New Zealand English Template:NZ parlbox header Template:NZ parlbox Template:NZ parlbox break Template:NZ parlbox Template:NZ parlbox footer William Henry Cutten (10 April 1822 – 30 June 1883) was a New Zealand politician from the Otago region.

Biography

Cutten was born in London in 1822. He received a good education and then studied law, which earned him a job at the department of the commissioner of bankruptcy.Template:Sfn At age 26, Cutten emigrated to New Zealand in 1848, arriving in Dunedin with the first settlers, including William Cargill on the John Wickliffe. Two years later, in 1850, he married Cargill's eldest daughter, Christina Dorothea Cargill, and the couple had 11 children.<ref name="Witness obit">Template:Cite news</ref>

Initially in the new settlement he was an auctioneer and storekeeper, but then became an immigration agent before being appointed a lands claim commissioner and, later, chief commissioner of Crown lands.<ref name="Witness obit"/>

Cutten served in the 1st New Zealand Parliament as representative for the Dunedin Country electorate Template:NZ election link year–1855, but resigned before the end of his term, as he found it unsustainable to spend that much time at parliament in Auckland away from his business.Template:Sfn

He was one of four candidates in the 1870 Caversham by-election, one of two candidates in the 1872 Caversham by-election; and came second both times. He was one of five candidates in the 1871 Roslyn by-election and came second.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

He served in the 6th Parliament as a representative for Taieri from an Template:By-election link until the end of the parliamentary term in 1879, when he retired.Template:Sfn In the Template:NZ election link, he contested the Template:NZ electorate link and, of the four candidates, he came a close second against James Seaton.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

He served on the Otago Provincial Council representing the Town of Dunedin electorate. He was a member of the first, second, third and sixth council, from 1853 to 1863, and from 1871 to 1873.Template:Sfn He was on the Council's Executive for four periods between 1854 and 1872.Template:Sfn

He was the first editor of the Otago Witness newspaper in 1851, and in 1861 he founded the Otago Daily Times with Julius Vogel.<ref name="Witness obit"/><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

He died at his home in the Dunedin suburb of Anderson Bay in 1883,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and was buried in the Dunedin Northern Cemetery.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

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