William Parker Street Explained

William Parker Street
Office1:Mayor of Dunedin
Term1:1883
Birth Place:Victoria, New Zealand
Death Place:Albany, Western Australia
Children:7+

William Parker Street (1846–1899) was a New Zealand businessman and politician who served as Mayor of Dunedin in 1883.

Biography

Street was born in 1846 in Victoria, New Zealand. He moved to Otago in the early 1860s. He was appointed clerk of the Resident Magistrate's Court and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the city. After some years in these positions, he started his own business.

Having served as a city auditor, Street was then elected to the council in 1880. In 1883, Street won the mayoralty by a substantial majority. In December of the same year his eldest son, William Edward, aged 15, was accidentally shot and killed at Saddle Hill.[1] In 1888 Street moved back to Victoria, where he engaged in business until disabled by paralysis in 1896.

Street died in Albany, Western Australia, in 1899, leaving a widow and six children.[2]

References

  1. Web site: Deaths. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20211018014251/https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/OW18831215.2.49?items_per_page=10&query=william+%22parker+street%22&snippet=true. 18 October 2021. 2020-05-29.
  2. Web site: Obituary Wm Parker Street. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20211018014251/https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/OW18990420.2.77?items_per_page=10&query=mr+street+obituary+dunedin+mayor&snippet=true. 18 October 2021. 2020-05-29.