Background
He was born in Bedford, England, in 1855. He lost his father at age two and his mother when he was twelve.
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He was born in Bedford, England, in 1855. He lost his father at age two and his mother when he was twelve.
He was educated at Bedford Modern School.
Foreign other people with the surname Isitt see Isitt
Leonard Isitt took over Taylor’s parliamentary electorate of Christchurch North in a 1911 by-election after Tommy Taylor died. He held the seat, first as an Independent then as a Liberal until he retired in 1925. Isitt and George Witty were both appointed to the Legislative Council by Gordon Coates on 28 October 1925.
Shortly before the 1925 election on 4 November.
Both were Liberals but their retirement removed "a source of some bitterness from the Party’s ranks". Gordon Coates was Reform, and both of their former seats went to Reform candidates.
After Witty, Henry Holland of the Reform Party represented the Christchurch North electorate. In 1935, he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Meda
Leonard Isitt married Agnes Caverhill in 1881.
They had two sons:
Sir Leonard Monk Isitt (1891–1976), a prominent Air Force commander. Willard Whitmore Isitt (1894–1916), a rifleman in the New Zealand Rifle Brigade, killed during World War I in France on 31 October 1916. Leonard Isitt died on 29 July 1937 in Christchurch and was buried at Linwood Cemetery.
Isitt was a member of the Legislative Council from 1925 to his death in 1937.