Edwin Dixon

Edwin Dixon (1867–1955) was a Reform Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand.[1]

New Zealand Parliament
Years Term Electorate Party
1921–1922 20th Patea Reform

Dixon served as mayor of Hāwera from 1915 to 1923.[2] He won the Patea electorate in a 1921 by-election after the death of the previous MP, Walter Powdrell, but was defeated in the 1922 general election.[3]

In 1953, Dixon was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal.[4]

References
  1. "Edwin Dixon" Victoria University of Wellington Library. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
  2. "Former Hawera mayoress". Wanganui Chronicle. Vol. 88, no. 56. 7 March 1944. p. 4. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
  3. Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand parliamentary record, 1840-1984 (4 ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. p. 103. OCLC 154283103.
  4. Taylor, Alister; Coddington, Deborah (1994). Honoured by the Queen – New Zealand. Auckland: New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa. p. 411. ISBN 0-908578-34-2.


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