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John Lillicrap

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John Frederick Lillicrap
John Lillicrap
Mayor of Invercargill
In office
1921–1923
Preceded byJohn Stead
Succeeded byAndrew Bain
Personal details
Born(1866-07-01)1 July 1866
Wellington, New Zealand
Died16 November 1937(1937-11-16) (aged 71)

John Frederick Lillicrap (1866–1937) was the 29th Mayor of Invercargill from 1921 to 1923. He had been a Borough councillor from 1901 to 1906 and from 1909 to 1921.

He was born in Wellington in 1866, and moved to Invercargill as a child. His father Captain Vernon Lillicrap was in charge of the Immigration Barracks.

He was a lawyer, and also practised from 1929 to 1936 in Palmerston North. He married Catherine Anne Wilson in 1899; they had one son and one daughter.

References

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  • Obituary "Long civic record" in Southland Times, 17 November 1937
  • Obituary in Evening Post, 18 November 1937 Obituary
  • Cyclopaedia of New Zealand (1905); reference to Councillors Longuet and Lillicrap
  • Scholefield, Guy (1924) [1908]. Who's Who in New Zealand and the Western Pacific. Masterton. p. 132.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Political offices
Preceded by Mayor of Invercargill
1921–1923
Succeeded by