Hugh Francis Carleton was a New Zealand journalist and politician.
12 Facts About Hugh Carleton
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Hugh Carleton's family was living in Clare, County Tipperary and then Greenfield, County Cork, Ireland.
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Hugh Carleton was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge.
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Hugh Carleton studied law in London, then art in Italy.
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Hugh Carleton was a member of New Zealand's first, second, third, and fourth Parliaments, representing the Bay of Islands electorate from 1853 to 1870, when he was defeated.
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Hugh Carleton remained Chairman of Committees until he left Parliament in 1870.
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Hugh Carleton had a strong interest in parliamentary procedure, and unsuccessfully lobbied for the position of Speaker.
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Hugh Carleton is known for his unsuccessful campaign against the availability of alcoholic beverages at Bellamy's, the parliamentary restaurant.
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Hugh Carleton was a critic of the idea that all voting districts should contain the same number of voters, saying that this system gave "a preponderating control" of the political world to one specific class.
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Hugh Carleton was described as "scholarly" by his allies and "pedantic" by his critics.
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Hugh Carleton returned to England and spent the last ten years of his life there.
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Hugh Carleton died at Lewisham, Surrey, England, on 14 July 1890.