Joseph Tetley (fraudster)

Joseph Dresser Tetley (1825–1878)[1] was a member of the New Zealand Legislative Council from 8 July 1867 to 19 June 1869. His family were from Clervaux, at Croft, in Yorkshire,[2] though he was born a little further south, at Topcliffe.[3]

He became a sheep farmer[4] in Marlborough, on the Kekerengu River, from 1857[3] or 1858.[5] He also had an interest in Starborough,[4] near Seddon.[6]

He resigned from Parliament in 1869,[7] upon fleeing the country to escape his creditors. One of them blamed another Parliamentarian, Nathaniel Levin, and a well-publicised slander case followed.[5] Tetley may have gone to Paraguay.[3] There was a report that his wife died in Panama and that he returned to England.[8] More probably, he lived at Colonia, in Uruguay, and died there in 1878.[9]

References
  1. "Members of the New Zealand Legislative Council, 1853–1950" (PDF). 3 December 2020.
  2. "The Chaytors of Coverham". nzetc.victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
  3. "Tetley, Joseph Dresser, 1825–". National Library of New Zealand. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
  4. "PIONEERING DAYS. WAIKATO TIMES". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 24 March 1928. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
  5. "SUPREME COURT. COLONIST". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 24 December 1869. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
  6. "Starborough Creek, Marlborough". NZ Topo Map. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
  7. Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand parliamentary record, 1840–1984 (4 ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer. p. 165. OCLC 154283103.
  8. "IN THE EARLY DAYS. WAIKATO TIMES". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 14 April 1928. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
  9. "The Tetley Affair". www.theprow.org.nz. December 2020. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
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