Stuart Sidey
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Thomas Kay Stuart Sidey Script error: No such module "If empty". (8 October 1908 – 28 October 2007) was a former New Zealand politician who served as Mayor of Dunedin.
Biography
Early life and career
Born in 1908, he was brought up in Corstorphine House. He was the only child of Sir Thomas Sidey, a Dunedin Member of Parliament, cabinet minister and lawyer. Sidey was a lawyer, educated at Otago Boys' High School and the University of Otago. He was on the Otago University Council for 34 years. In World War II he was a Major in the New Zealand Army in the Pacific. He ran the Wickliffe Press in Dunedin and bred racehorses.[1]
He married Beryl Thomas in 1933; they had one son (Dr. Tom Sidey, 1934–2016) and one daughter.[1][2]
Political career
Sidey was Mayor of Dunedin from 1959 to 1965 for the Citizens Association, and was a member of the Dunedin City Council from 1947 to 1983.[1] He stood for Parliament three times; in the Template:NZ election link, he was defeated by Fred Jones in the Template:NZ electorate link electorate, in the Template:NZ election link, he was defeated by Gervan McMillan in the Template:NZ electorate link electorate and in the Template:NZ election link, he was defeated by Philip Connolly in the Template:NZ electorate link electorate.[3][4][5]
In the 1968 Queen's Birthday Honours, Sidey was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, for services to the community, especially to local government.[6]
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