10 Facts About Henry Fish

Henry Smith Fish was a 19th-century New Zealand politician.

Henry Fish's parents were Mary Ann Passmore and Henry Smith Fish, a painter.

Henry Fish received his education at Cave House School and from 1849 at Melbourne, where the family settled.

Henry Fish accompanied his father to the gold diggings in The Ovens, Nova Scotia.

Henry Fish was first elected onto Dunedin City Council in 1867.

Henry Fish was the Mayor of Dunedin from 1870 to 1873 and again from 1893 to 1895.

Henry Fish represented the Dunedin electorate on the Otago Provincial Council in 1870, and from 1873 until the abolition of provincial government in 1876.

Henry Fish represented the Dunedin South electorate from 1881 to 1884 when he was defeated, then from 1887 to 1890.

Henry Fish then held one of the three seats for the City of Dunedin multi-member electorate from 1890 to 1893 when he was defeated, and from 1896 to 1897, when he died.

Henry Fish paid his anti-suffragist campaigners a bounty for signatures collected, but lost credibility when some signatures were found to be fraudulent.