Background
He was the son of New Zealand"s longest-serving Prime Minister Richard Seddon, and succeeded his father as Member of Parliament for Westland following his death in 1906. Seddon was born in Kumara in 1884.
He was the son of New Zealand"s longest-serving Prime Minister Richard Seddon, and succeeded his father as Member of Parliament for Westland following his death in 1906. Seddon was born in Kumara in 1884.
He was educated at Kumara School, the Terrace School (Wellington), Wellington College, and Victoria University College. He graduated in law, and joined the practice of John Findlay and Frederick George Dalziell, and then became a barrister and solicitor in Greymouth.
Guests at the wedding included Robert Loughnan, Joseph Grimmond, George Fowlds, and Joseph Ward. He inherited the Westland electorate on the sudden death of his father Richard Seddon in the 1906 by-election after he had just turned 22. He held the electorate to 1922, when he was defeated by James O"Brien of the Labour Party.
He served in the New Zealand Army in World War I from 1915 to 1919.
He was chairman of the War Pensions Board from 1930 to 1963. In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Meda