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william pember reeves wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 early life and career 2 cricket 3 political career 4 in london 5 works 6 see also 7 notes 8 references 9 external links toggle the table of contents william pember reeves 3 languages مصرى deutsch français edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikimedia commons wikisource wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia new zealand politician cricketer and historian for other people named william reeves see william reeves disambiguation the honourable william pember reeves portrait of william pember reeves possibly taken when he was elected to be a member of parliament in 1887 5th high commissioner to the united kingdom nb 1 in office december 1896 december 1908 monarchs victoria edward vii prime minister richard seddon preceded by westby perceval succeeded by william hall jones 1st minister of labour in office 31 may 1892 10 january 1896 prime minister john ballance richard seddon succeeded by richard seddon 9th minister of education in office 24 january 1891 10 january 1896 prime minister john ballance richard seddon preceded by thomas william hislop succeeded by william campbell walker member of the new zealand parliament for city of christchurch in office 5 december 1890 13 february 1896 preceded by constituency recreated succeeded by charles lewis member of the new zealand parliament for st albans in office 26 september 1887 5 december 1890 preceded by francis james garrick succeeded by constituency abolished personal details born 1857 02 10 10 february 1857 lyttelton new zealand died 16 may 1932 1932 05 16 aged 75 london england party liberal spouse magdalen stuart robison children 3 including amber reeves parent s william reeves father ellen pember mother occupation lawyer and journalist cricket career cricket information role batsman domestic team information years team 1879 80 1887 88 canterbury career statistics competition first class matches 5 runs scored 188 batting average 20 88 100s 50s 0 1 top score 54 catches stumpings 1 0 source espn cricinfo 22 november 2020 william pember reeves 10 february 1857 16 may 1932 was a new zealand politician cricketer historian and poet who is most notable for his role in the creation of new zealand s system of industrial relations as minister of labour during the liberal government of 1891 to 1912 early life and career edit reeves s parents were william reeves who was a journalist and politician and ellen reeves née pember they had migrated from britain to canterbury province in 1857 arriving three weeks before he was born 1 he was educated at a private prep school in christchurch the local high school and from 1867 to 1874 christ s college grammar school 2 before entering politics reeves was a lawyer and journalist he was editor of the canterbury times in 1885 and the lyttelton times 1889 1891 3 cricket edit reeves played in five first class cricket matches for canterbury from 1879 to 1888 4 a batsman his highest score was 54 canterbury s top score in the match when canterbury beat otago by four runs in february 1883 5 in his last first class match played in january 1888 while he was a member of parliament he top scored for canterbury with 31 in the second innings 6 reeves was described as a steady thoughtful batsman a hard man to get out but he was erratic in his judgement of when to run a failing he commemorated in one of his poems no judge of a run a lament of cricket 7 political career edit new zealand parliament years term electorate party 1887 1890 10th st albans independent 1890 1893 11th christchurch liberal 1893 1896 12th christchurch liberal reeves represented the christchurch electorate of st albans in parliament from 1887 to 1890 and then christchurch from 1890 to 1896 when he resigned to take up the post of agent general 8 during the premierships of john ballance 1891 93 and richard seddon 1893 1906 he served as minister of labour 1892 96 minister of education 1891 96 minister of justice 1891 92 1893 1895 96 and commissioner of stamp duties 1892 96 9 as minister of labour he introduced the industrial conciliation and arbitration act 1894 and the undesirable immigrants exclusion bill which if it had been passed would have barred poor and asian immigrants from the country his opposition to the entry of those he considered undesirable immigrants earned him the nickname undesirable bill reeves 10 in london edit in january 1896 reeves left new zealand for london where he was agent general 1896 1905 and high commissioner 1905 08 11 while he was in britain reeves became a friend of a number of left wing intellectuals such as george bernard shaw h g wells and sidney and beatrice webb all leading members of the fabian society he was also a member of the coefficients dining club of social reformers 12 william pember reeves in 1925 reeves became director of the london school of economics 1908 19 and president of the anglo hellenic league 1913 25 he also headed the committee organising the first universal races congress in london in 1911 finally he was chairman of the board of the national bank of new zealand from 1917 to 1931 reeves s more influential writings include his history of new zealand the long white cloud 1898 and state experiments in australia and new zealand 1902 he also published a number of poems such as the passing of the forest and a colonist in his garden reeves married magdalen stuart robison in 1885 she was a feminist who later joined the fabian society they had two daughters the feminist writer amber reeves born 1887 and beryl born 1889 and one son fabian pember reeves 1895 1917 who was killed in the first world war aged 21 as a flight lieutenant in the rnas 13 reeves three times declined offers of a knighthood 3 works edit some historical articles on communism and socialism their dreams their experiments their aims their influence christchurch the lyttelton times office 1890 the state and its functions in new zealand london the fabian society 1896 the long white cloud aotearoa london horace marshall son 1898 state experiments in australia new zealand london grant richards 1902 new zealand to day the empire and the century london john murray 1905 pp 462 77 see also edit list of canterbury representative cricketers notes edit the last agent general and the first high commissioner for the dominion of new zealand sinclair keith reeves william pember dictionary of new zealand biography ministry for culture and heritage retrieved 13 april 2016 keith sinclair 2007 reeves the hon william pember encyclopedia of new zealand 1966 retrieved 16 july 2007 1 2 16 july 2007 william reeves espncricinfo retrieved 20 october 2020 canterbury v otago 1882 83 cricketarchive retrieved 20 january 2021 otago v canterbury 1887 88 cricketarchive retrieved 18 september 2024 no judge of a run pember reeves as a cricketer canterbury s triple representative manawatu times 13 7 march 1931 wilson 1985 p 229 wilson 1985 pp 71 72 immigration regulation teara govt nz 2007 retrieved 16 july 2007 hamer 1988 p 365 sinclair 1965 pp 296 8 sinclair 1965 p 332 references edit hamer david a 1988 the new zealand liberals the years of power 1891 1912 auckland auckland university press isbn 1 86940 014 3 oclc 18420103 sinclair keith 1965 william pember reeves new zealand fabian auckland oxford university press oclc 804267 wilson jim 1985 first ed published 1913 new zealand parliamentary record 1840 1984 4th ed wellington v r ward govt printer oclc 154283103 external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to william pember reeves english wikisource has original works by or about william pember reeves william pember reeves at cricinfo biography in the 1966 encyclopaedia of new zealand works by william pember reeves at project gutenberg works by or about william pember reeves at the internet archive the long white cloud at project gutenberg or at the new zealand electronic text centre the passing of the forest at the new zealand electronic text centre political offices preceded by thomas william hislop minister of education 1891 1896 succeeded by william campbell walker preceded by william russell minister of justice 1891 1892 1893 1895 1896 succeeded by alfred cadman preceded by alfred cadman succeeded by alfred cadman succeeded by william hall jones new zealand parliament preceded by francis james garrick member of parliament for st albans 1887 1890 in abeyance title next held by jack watts vacant constituency recreated after abolition in 1881 title last held by samuel paull andrews edward richardson edward cephas john stevens member of parliament for christchurch 1890 1896 served alongside westby perceval 1890 1891 richard molesworth taylor 1890 1893 ebenezer sandford 1891 1893 george john smith william whitehouse collins 1893 1896 succeeded by charles lewis diplomatic posts preceded by westby perceval high commissioner of new zealand to the united kingdom 1895 1908 succeeded by william hall jones educational offices preceded by halford mackinder director of the london school of economics 1908 1919 succeeded by william beveridge authority control databases international isni viaf gnd fast worldcat national united states netherlands latvia greece poland israel people trove other idref open library snac te papa new zealand yale lux retrieved from https 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