Frederick Lye

Frederick Arthur Lye (1881 – 3 October 1949) was a New Zealand politician of the Liberal Party then of the United Party. The United Party was a continuation of the historical Liberal Party, albeit more conservative.

Frederick Lye
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Waikato
In office
7 December 1922 – 4 November 1925
Preceded byAlexander Young
Succeeded byStewart Reid
In office
14 November 1928 – 27 November 1935
Preceded byStewart Reid
Succeeded byRobert Coulter
Personal details
Born1881
Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England
Died (aged 67)
Hamilton, New Zealand
Political partyLiberal (1922–28)
United (1928–36)

Early life and family

Born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, Lye was the son of Robert Bevan Lye. The family moved to New Zealand in 1886, arriving in Auckland, where Lye was educated. He left home when he was 19 years old and found work milking cows on a dairy farm near Pukekohe. About five years later, he took up farming on his own account at Otakeho on Taranaki's Waimate Plains. In 1906, Lye married Charlotte Louie Preece from Kaponga, and the couple went on to have 10 children. They remained farming at Otakeho until 1918, when they moved to Pukekura, just south of Cambridge in the Waikato, while retaining their farming interests in Taranaki.[1]

His younger brother, Samuel Charles Gale Lye (1884–1937),[2] was also a dairy farmer[3][4] and also stood for the Liberals in several elections.[5]

Political career
New Zealand Parliament
Years Term Electorate Party
1922–1925 21st Waikato Liberal
1928–1931 23rd Waikato United
1931–1935 24th Waikato United

He represented the Waikato electorate from 1922 to 1925, when he was defeated by Stewart Reid of the Reform Party. He won the seat back in 1928, but was defeated by Robert Coulter of the Labour Party in the 1935 landslide to Labour.[6]

In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.[7]

Later life and death

Lye remained living at Pukekura until his death at Waikato Hospital in Hamilton on 3 October 1949. He was survived by his wife and 10 children, and was buried at Hautapu Cemetery.[1]

References
  1. "Mr Fred. Lye passes away in Waikato Hospital". Waikato Independent. Vol. 45, no. 6299. 5 October 1949. p. 4. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  2. "Three country seats". Auckland Star. Vol. 53, no. 284. 30 November 1922. p. 7. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  3. "A collection of communities... one community plan" (PDF). Waikato District Council. 2013. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  4. "Election campaign". Waikato Times. Vol. 96, no. 15084. 3 November 1922. p. 2. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  5. "Other candidates". Auckland Star. Vol. 58, no. 210. 6 September 1927. p. 9. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  6. Scholefield, Guy (1950) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1949 (3rd ed.). Wellington: Govt. Printer. p. 121.
  7. "Official jubilee medals". The Evening Post. 6 May 1935. p. 4. Retrieved 15 November 2013.
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