Personal details
Full Name:
- Frederick Aloysius Weld
Lifetime:
- 9 May 1823–20 Jul 1891
Premier:
24 Nov 1864–16 Oct 1865
Age on becoming Premier:
41
Electorate:
Cheviot
Biography
Frederick Weld was only briefly premier, but he later became a serial colonial governor. That he, a Roman Catholic, could lead a colony showed how different New Zealand was to Britain.
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Housing the Prime Minister
Almost 150 years after the government purchased the first official premier's residence on Tinakori Road, Wellington, the address of Premier House remains the same. But in the intervening years the building has been extended, renamed, abandoned and refurbished.
- Page 2 - The first premier houseOur first premiers had to find their own digs. That changed in 1865, when the government bought the premier a simple 22-year-old wooden cottage in Thorndon’s Tinakori
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Main image: Frederick Weld
Formal portrait of Frederick Aloysius Weld. Taken by an unknown photographer, circa 1860.