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Arthur John Stallworthy (1877–1954) was a New Zealand politician of the United Party, and a Cabinet minister. ==Biography== Stallworthy was born in 1877 in Auckland, New Zealand. He was the eldest son of John Stallworthy, who had come to New Zealand in 1872, and who was Member of Parliament for the electorate from to 1911. His mother was Annie Jane Stallworthy. His father was employed by the Auckland Education Board as a teacher and in 1880, he was posted to Aratapu School in Hobson County, Northland, with the family moving there.〔 Aratapu is today a small settlement on the west bank of the Wairoa River, a short distance downstream from Dargaville, but back then economically as important as Dargaville if not ahead. His father became a newspaper proprietor but was blind for the last ten years of his life, and Arthur Stallworthy took over the running of the ''Wairoa Bell and Northern Advertiser''. After his father's death in November 1923, Arthur Stallworthy inherited the newspaper, which he sold soon after. He then moved to Auckland to be near his children, who attended Auckland University College.〔 He represented the electorate from to 1935, when he was deselected by the United/Reform Coalition. He stood in the as a Democrat losing to the Labour candidate, Bill Anderton. He was the Minister of Health from 1928 to 1931, first under Joseph Ward and then George Forbes. Stallworthy died in 1954. His son, John Stallworthy (1906–1993), was Nuffield Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Oxford (1967–1973). His grandson, Jon Stallworthy (1935–2014), was Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Oxford. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arthur Stallworthy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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