Charles Beard Izard Explained

Charles Beard Izard
Parliament:New Zealand
Term Start:26 September 1887
Term End:5 December 1890
Predecessor:seat established
Successor:seat abolished
Birth Date:4 December 1829
Birth Place:Brighton, England
Death Place:Wellington, New Zealand
Spouse:Mary Ann Hayward
Relations:Charles Hayward Izard (son)
Profession:Lawyer

Charles Beard Izard (4 December 1829 – 23 October 1904) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament and lawyer in Wellington, New Zealand.[1]

Biography

Early life

Izard was born in Brighton, England, and educated at King's College London and Magdalene College, Cambridge, graduating in mathematics in 1854. After studying at Lincoln's Inn he was admitted to the bar in England. He married Miss Mary Ann Hayward from Sussex in 1859. She died in Wellington on 18 July 1900 aged 71 years.[2]

In 1860 they emigrated to Auckland, and that year moved to Wellington. He was a Crown solicitor and partner in the law firm that became Bell Gully. His son, Charles Hayward Izard, was a partner in that firm from 1882 to 1897.[3] He was on the boards of local schools and local companies e.g. the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company and the Meat Export Company. He retired from the law in 1887 due to failing eyesight.[4]

Political career

He contested the and in the electorate, where he was second of six candidates (1881), beaten by James Wilson.[5]

He represented the Wellington South and Suburbs electorate from to 1890, when he was defeated (for the Hutt electorate).[6]

His son Charles Hayward Izard was also a Member of Parliament.[7]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Obituary . Evening Post in Papers Past . 24 October 1904 .
  2. Web site: Death . Evening Post in Papers Past . 19 July 1900 .
  3. Book: Cooke, Robin . Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon

    . 396 . Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon . Portrait of a Profession: The Centennial Book of the New Zealand Law Society . 1969 . Reed Publishing . Wellington.

  4. Evening Post; 21 October 1904 p5
  5. News: Foxton . 31 January 2013 . Thames Star . XII . 4043 . 13 December 1881 . 2.
  6. Book: Wilson, James Oakley . New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 . 4th . First ed. published 1913 . 1985 . V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer . Wellington . 154283103 . 207.
  7. Izard, Charles Beard. 238.