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Sir Westby Brook Perceval (11 May 1854 – 23 January 1928) was a New Zealand politician of the Liberal Party. ==Biography== Perceval was born in Launceston, Tasmania in 1854. In 1867 he won a junior Somes scholarship to Christ's College, Christchurch. At the age of 16, in May 1870, he was received into the Catholic church. He completed his secondary education at Stonyhurst College in England. He married Jessie Johnston, daughter of John Johnston, in 1880. He was a lawyer in Christchurch. He represented the Christchurch South electorate from the 1887 general election to the end of the parliamentary term in 1890, and then the City of Christchurch electorate from the 1890 general election to September 1891, when he resigned.〔 For the last three months in Parliament, he was Chairman of Committees. He was made Agent-General to the United Kingdom from 1891 to 1896, and then Agent-General for Tasmania from 1896 to 1898. Perceval was knighted (KCMG) in 1894 and died in Surrey, England in 1928. 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「Westby Perceval」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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