John Lillicrap Explained

John Frederick Lillicrap
Office5:Mayor of Invercargill
Term Start5:1921
Term End5:1923
Predecessor5:John Stead
Successor5:Andrew Bain
Birth Date:1 July 1866
Birth Place:Wellington, New Zealand
Nationality:New Zealand

John Frederick Lillicrap (1866–1937) was the 29th Mayor of Invercargill from 1921 to 1923. He had been a Borough councillor from 1901 to 1906 and from 1909 to 1921.

He was born in Wellington in 1866, and moved to Invercargill as a child. His father Captain Vernon Lillicrap was in charge of the Immigration Barracks.

He was a lawyer, and also practised from 1929 to 1936 in Palmerston North. He married Catherine Anne Wilson in 1899; they had one son and one daughter.

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