Alan Cobcroft

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Alan Ridge Cobcroft (* 1885 in Sydney , New South Wales , † September 5, 1955 in Auckland , New Zealand ) was a plantation owner in Western Samoa and a politician.

Life

Cobcroft was born in the Summer Hill suburb of Sydney . He attended Sydney Grammar School and was successful in football , rowing and running at the school . During this time he also played for Newtown in the Sydney Rugby Premiership as a full-back (defender). After finishing school, he moved to Fiji in 1907 to work on the sugar cane plantations of CSR Limited (Colonial Sugar Refining Company). He moved to Western Samoa in 1911 to manage Papaseea Plantations and became the manager of Mulifanua Coconut Plantation during the First World War . After a brief interlude in New Guinea Territory , he returned to Western Samoa and set up his own cocoa plantation. He became President of the Planters Association and Vice President of the Apia Turf Club .

Cobcroft ran for the Western Samoan General Election for the Legislative Assembly of Samoa in 1932 with the support of the Chamber of Commerce and the Planters' Association and was elected along with his brother-in-law Irving Carruthers . Unexpectedly, he lost this post again in the 1935 elections. The following year he was one of the founders of the United Progressive Party and became its first chairman.

He died on September 5, 1955 in Auckland at the age of 70.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Samoan elections Pacific Islands Monthly , December 1932: 38–39.
  2. ↑ Football Sunday Times, March 17, 1907.
  3. ^ Samoan election Auckland Star, November 21, 1935.
  4. ↑ Planters' concern Auckland Star, October 30, 1936
  5. ^ Deaths of islands people Pacific Islands Monthly , September 1955: 141.
personal data
SURNAME Cobcroft, Alan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Samoan plantation owner and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Sydney , New South Wales
DATE OF DEATH 5th September 1955
Place of death Auckland , New Zealand