Claude Weston

Claude Horace Weston DSO KC was a New Zealand lawyer, a lieutenantcolonel in WWI, and effectively the first president of the National Party .

Weston was born in Hokitika in 1879. His parents were Maria Cracroft Weston and Thomas S. Weston, and judge and later a member of the House of Representatives for electorates on the West Coast of the South Island. Claude Weston received his secondary education at Christs College and graduated with LL.B. from the Canterbury University College. Weston was a Captain of the Taranaki Rifles.

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