Henry Thacker

Dr Henry Thomas Joynt Thacker was a doctor, New Zealand Member of Parliament and Mayor of Christchurch.

Thacker was born in Okains Bay on Banks Peninsula onMarch 1870. His parents were Essy Joynt and John Edward Thacker. His father was an editor of the Sligo Guardian and after emigration to Christchurch in 1850, launched the second newspaper in Canterbury, the Guardian and Canterbury Advertiser. The newspaper failed after only a few months.

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