Charles Archibald Lawrance Treadwell was a New Zealand lawyer, soldier, author and politician.
11 Facts About Charles Treadwell
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Charles Treadwell was educated at Wellington College and later studied law at Victoria College.
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Charles Treadwell organised a wills department and general law office which he ran until his return to New Zealand in June 1919.
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Charles Treadwell wrote several military books, and was part-author of the official history of the Wellington Regiment.
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Charles Treadwell retired from the post of Judge Advocate General of the New Zealand Military Forces in 1955.
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Charles Treadwell was vice-consul for Brazil in 1932 and Consul in 1938.
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In February 1966 Treadwell was conferred with the Order of the Southern Cross, in the rank of chevalier, to recognise his 25 years service as consul for Brazil in New Zealand.
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Charles Treadwell stood for Parliament unsuccessfully at the 1935 general election in the Wellington North electorate for the Reform Party.
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Charles Treadwell was elected, on the Citizens' Association ticket, to the Wellington City Council at the 1947 election.
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Charles Treadwell was president of the Wellington District Law Society in 1951.
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Charles Treadwell retired as senior partner in Wellington's oldest legal firm in May 1957.