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{{Short description|New Zealand politician (1838–1897)}}
'''Henry Smith Fish''' (15 July 1838 – 23 September 1897) was a 19th-century New Zealand politician. For a time, he was a member of the [[New Zealand Liberal Party|Liberal Party]]. He was [[Mayor of Dunedin]] for a total of six years.▼
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{{Infobox person
| image = Henry Fish.jpg
| caption = A portrait of Fish, taken c. 1881.
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1838|7|15|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Pimlico, London]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1897|9|23|1838|7|15|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Dunedin, New Zealand]]
| opponents = [[Women's suffrage in New Zealand|Women's suffrage]]
}}▼
▲'''Henry Smith Fish''' (15 July 1838 – 23 September 1897) was a 19th-century New Zealand politician. For a time, he was a member of the [[New Zealand Liberal Party|Liberal Party]]. He was [[Mayor of Dunedin]] for a total of six years. Smith is remembered as one of the staunch opponents of [[Women's suffrage in New Zealand|women's suffrage]].
Fish was born in [[Pimlico]], London, in 1838. His parents were Mary Ann Passmore and Henry Smith Fish, a painter. He received his education at Cave House School and from 1849 at [[Melbourne]], where the family settled. He accompanied his father to the gold diggings in [[The Ovens, Nova Scotia]]. Afterwards, he worked in his father's painting and glazier business in Melbourne, and from around 1863, in [[Dunedin]], to where the family relocated.<ref name="DNZB Fish">{{DNZB|Sinclair|F. R. J. |2f8|Fish, Henry Smith|25 December 2013}}</ref> They traded as H. S. Fish and Son and were based in Princes Street South.<ref>{{cite news |title=Page 4 Advertisements Column 5 |url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NOT18641201.2.3.5 |accessdate=25 December 2013 |work=North Otago Times |date=1 December 1864 |volume=II |issue=41 |page=4}}</ref>
On 31 January 1867, he married Jane Carr at Dunedin's [[St. Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin|St Paul's Church]].<ref name="DNZB Fish" />
==Political career==
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|electorate = [[Dunedin South]]
|party = Independent
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|term = 10th
|electorate = Dunedin South
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|term = 11th
|electorate = City of Dunedin
|party = Independent
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Fish was first elected onto [[Dunedin City Council]] in 1867.<ref name="DNZB Fish" /> He was the [[Mayor of Dunedin]] from 1870 to 1873 and again from 1893 to 1895.<ref>{{cite news|title=Mayors of Dunedin |url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=OW18980317.1.121 |accessdate=6 October 2010 |
He represented the [[Dunedin South]] electorate from 1881 to 1884 when he was defeated, then from 1887 to 1890. He then held one of the three seats for the [[Dunedin (New Zealand electorate)|City of Dunedin]] multi-member electorate from 1890<ref name="General Election, 1890">{{cite web |title=The General Election, 1890 |url= http://atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs?a=d&cl=search&d=AJHR1891-I.2.1.6.2 |publisher=[[National Library of New Zealand|National Library]] |accessdate=26 November 2013 |page=2 |year=1891}}</ref> to 1893 when he was defeated, and from 1896 to 1897, when he died. He was replaced by [[Alexander Sligo]].<ref name="Wilson">{{cite book |last= Wilson |first= James Oakley |title= New Zealand parliamentary record, 1840-1984 |accessdate= 5 October 2010 |edition= 4 |origyear= First ed. published 1913 |year= 1985 |publisher= V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |isbn= |oclc= 154283103 |page= |pages= }}</ref>▼
Fish represented the Dunedin electorate on the [[Otago Provincial Council]] in 1870, and from 1873 until the abolition of provincial government in 1876.{{sfn|Scholefield|1950|p=220}} He was briefly a member of the Executive Council in May/June 1875.{{sfn|Scholefield|1950|p=217}}
Fish represented liquor interests in Parliament, and was an opponent of [[Women's suffrage in New Zealand|Women's suffrage]] in 1890–1893 on their behalf. He paid his anti-suffragist campaigners a bounty for signatures collected, but lost credibility when some signatures were found to be fraudulent.<ref>''Women’s Suffrage'', Archives New Zealand Info Sheet 4, March 2011</ref> ▼
▲He represented the [[Dunedin South]] electorate from 1881 to 1884 when he was defeated, then from 1887 to 1890. He then held one of the three seats for the [[City of Dunedin (New Zealand electorate)|City of Dunedin]] multi-member electorate from 1890<ref name="General Election, 1890">{{cite web |title=The General Election, 1890 |url=
▲He was the [[Mayor of Dunedin]] from 1870 to 1873 and again from 1893 to 1895.<ref>{{cite news|title=Mayors of Dunedin |url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=OW18980317.1.121 |accessdate=6 October 2010 |newspaper=Otago Witness |date=Issue 2298, 17 March 1898 |page=62 }}</ref>
▲Fish represented liquor interests in Parliament, and was an opponent of [[Women's suffrage in New Zealand|Women's suffrage]] in 1890–1893 on their behalf. He paid his anti-suffragist campaigners a bounty for signatures collected, but lost credibility when some signatures were found to be fraudulent.<ref>''Women’s Suffrage'', Archives New Zealand Info Sheet 4, March 2011</ref>
▲==Personal life==
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Smith died of throat cancer in Dunedin on 23 September 1897.<ref name="DNZB Fish" /><ref>{{cite news|title=Dunedin: Deaths |url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=OAM18970927.2.6&srpos=7&e=26-09-1897-10-10-1897--100--1-byDA-on--0Gillies-ARTICLE- |accessdate=29 July 2015|work=Oamaru Mail|date=27 September 1897|page=1}}</ref>
==Notes==
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==References==
*{{cite book |author-link = Guy Scholefield | last = Scholefield | first= Guy | title = New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1949 | edition = 3rd | orig-year=First published in 1913 | year = 1950 |publisher = Govt. Printer |location = Wellington}}
*{{cite book |last= Wilson |first= James Oakley |title= New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 |edition= 4th |orig-year=First published in 1913 |year= 1985 |publisher=V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |oclc= 154283103}}
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